Deja Foxx

Like Mark Zuckerberg did not design Facebook for me to go viral and be on even footing in the public discourse with the United States senator when I was a teenage girl working at a gas station.

That was not the design.

And so when we think about what is possible as we build a new world, right, and I think even this resonates maybe for people who are feeling –

hopeless or dejected about politics is there are so many ways to be a world builder.

And one of the ways folks are doing that, girls, women, are doing that is online.

By building alternative digital platforms, right, I think about how in response to major platforms censoring women's health information, we've seen platforms like DM, which is this, like,

Reddit alternative pop up and a quarter of their searches are about reproductive rights.

And it's trained on conversations that women are having with each other.

Or I think about how Sunroom, I mentioned in the talk too, has grown out of, it's where girls get paid to exist.

And it's personalized and monetized content, fitness coaches, career coaches, and hot girls.

But they grew out of

an issue online that they saw, which was that on these visual platforms, women's hotness is commodified by the platform, right?

Like they profit from it.

Sure.

Yeah, I think somewhere like Sunroom, right, what makes them interesting is that they're pushing back against these major platforms that profit off of women's beauty and their hotness and just our visual being, right?

And saying that

Got it.

Right.

Right.

We've seen platforms like Instagram censor larger bodies where they do not censor, you know, these like typical, you know, thin bodies.