Deja Foxx

Millions of people saw it.

And my life went from private to public.

And I experienced what it meant to come of age in the public eye.

Yeah, yeah.

Right?

I was 16 years old.

I turned 17 a few days later.

I'm 25 now.

I've been counted out more times than—

than I can count, right?

In this most recent election, you know, I announced a bid for Congress.

Every headline says, influencer runs for Congress.

Though I've been an activist for a decade, I was one of the youngest presidential staffers in history, a digital strategist for Kamala Harris.

I'm not a teen girl anymore, but still I see my accomplishments flattened, diminished.

Yeah, and I think women of every generation can relate to that.

Unfortunately, I don't think we grow out of it.

Yeah, I mean, the world we build online...

translates into the lives we get to live offline, not just in politics, but in everything from culture to economics.

And so when we think about the digital architecture we live in, right, something like Facebook that was originally designed as a way for these men to rate their female classmates, it really should be no surprise that this digital architecture was not built

with the goal of democratizing who gets to be a storyteller, right?