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Speaker 1: My name is bridget Tad and I love the Internet.

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Speaker 1: And the fun fact about me is, at any time

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Speaker 1: anyone brings up anything about the Internet or technology, my

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Speaker 1: first inclination is to tell them about how a woman

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Speaker 1: whose story they might not know, is actually the reason

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Speaker 1: we have that thing. Like did you know that a

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Speaker 1: woman engineer is basically the reason we have cellphones and tablets,

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Speaker 1: but that she was fired from IBM and the fifties

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Speaker 1: for being trans and her story was almost overlooked because

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Speaker 1: of it. Or what about those born apes you might

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Speaker 1: have been seeing on the social media feeds of celebrities

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Speaker 1: like Jimmy Fallen, Paris Hilton, and witneth Aaltrow? Did you

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Speaker 1: know they were actually designed by a woman of color

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Speaker 1: who kind of got screwed out of the credit. Or

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Speaker 1: what about the fact that a black woman who worked

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Speaker 1: at the social media platform Pinterest developed one of the

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Speaker 1: first ever policies to keep medical misinformation off social media,

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Speaker 1: way before COVID was ever a thing, but that she

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Speaker 1: was actually punished for it. Y'all, I cannot stop talking

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Speaker 1: about the ways that women, black folks, queer folks, trans folks,

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Speaker 1: and other tradition marginalized people are out here shaping what

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Speaker 1: it means to be on the Internet and technology, even

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Speaker 1: if our stories are not always told. I started the

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Speaker 1: podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, so that

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Speaker 1: our experiences online would never go overlooked and our stories

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Speaker 1: would never go untold. On There Are No Girls on

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Speaker 1: the Internet, we talk about the past, present, and future

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Speaker 1: of our experiences online. So listen to There Are No

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Speaker 1: Girls on the Internet, with new episodes starting on March first,

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Speaker 1: on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.