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Speaker 1: I'm Bridget Todd, and I spent my whole career exploring

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Speaker 1: how marginalized people shape culture. I used to be on

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Speaker 1: a feminist podcast called Stuff Mom Never Told You, and

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Speaker 1: before that, I helped activists use the Internet to push

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Speaker 1: for social change. It's been a really exciting time to

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Speaker 1: be organizing online. We've seen huge movements like Me Too

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Speaker 1: and Black Lives Matter takeoff, movements that were largely started

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Speaker 1: and run and shaped by black people, women, and other

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Speaker 1: marginalized voices. And it got me thinking, when it comes

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Speaker 1: to cool and important ship popping off online, we've always

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Speaker 1: run the show. Yes, we use the Internet to build

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Speaker 1: movements that the kind you're seeing erupt today, but women,

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Speaker 1: black folks, and other marginalized voices also shape culture, make art,

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Speaker 1: and connect with each other using tech in ways that

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Speaker 1: have a big impact on Internet culture, even from the

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Speaker 1: very beginning. The reason why computers and the Internet and

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Speaker 1: tech are everyday parts of all of our lives is

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Speaker 1: because of the talent and labor of marginalized folks, and

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Speaker 1: today is no different. So that's why it bums me

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Speaker 1: out to see white tech do leaders act like they

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Speaker 1: don't have to be accountable to those of very same

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Speaker 1: people when their platforms would be nothing without us. Tech

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Speaker 1: is not neutral, It's not a political But this isn't

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Speaker 1: what many important tech leaders would have you believe. Guess

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Speaker 1: what they're wrong. Framing tech as neutral let's tech leaders

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Speaker 1: off the hook for the ways that their policies and

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Speaker 1: platforms hurt people, many of whom are women, black people,

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Speaker 1: and other marginalized voices. For instance, Facebook about a statement

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Speaker 1: recently affirming their commitment to Black Lives matter. Also letting

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Speaker 1: Trump and other sexists and racists misuse their platform in

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Speaker 1: ways that directly harm those same marginalized communities, will also

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Speaker 1: raking in visfuls of profit while doing it. Wondering why

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Speaker 1: we've allowed tech leaders to get away with framing tech

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Speaker 1: as neutral as their policies harm our communities, We'll just

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Speaker 1: take a look at who feels at home in the

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Speaker 1: tech space and online. By buying into the idea that

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Speaker 1: tech on the Internet are not our domain, we've let

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Speaker 1: white male tech leaders dominate the conversation in a space

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Speaker 1: for our voice that should be the loudest. I want

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Speaker 1: to change this, okay, but how it's kind of a lot,

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Speaker 1: so buckle up. I want to bust the myth that

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Speaker 1: the only voices that matter in tech belong to white men.

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Speaker 1: I want to bust the myth that women and marginalized

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Speaker 1: voices weren't always at the ground form technology and the

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Speaker 1: way it impacts our culture. We were, so we should

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Speaker 1: have a bigger voice. I want to amplify the stories

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Speaker 1: that traditional conversations around tech and the Internet leave out,

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Speaker 1: both from history and today. Tech is more than it

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Speaker 1: is people who make things with code. It's the artists, organizers, writers,

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Speaker 1: movement builders. It's people who are doing work that is

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Speaker 1: traditionally associated with women and marginalized voices. So unfortunately that

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Speaker 1: work goes overlooked. I want to mystify conversations about the

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Speaker 1: Internet and tech so that you, yes, you feel like

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Speaker 1: you're entitled a take up space in these conversations. You

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Speaker 1: may not be a bro, but if you're listening to

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Speaker 1: this podcast, it's likely that use the Internet every single day,

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Speaker 1: and whether tech leaders want to admit it or not,

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Speaker 1: technology and the Internet would be nothing without us. Tech

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Speaker 1: is nothing without its users, So why shouldn't we have

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Speaker 1: a bigger voice? So are you with me? We need

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Speaker 1: monuments to all the ways that marginalized voices of shaped

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Speaker 1: what it means to be online. So let's build them.

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