Deja Foxx

It's not so much about saying that we need one internet for boys and one for girls.

It's sort of saying that we are all living in boy architecture on the internet, and we are already being tracked in two different directions on our algorithms, and that girls deserve to have their safe space and to be able to model a different way of being online that has benefits for literally everybody of every gender.

And so...

I think about just how different our digital worlds could be, and no one should be forced into any of them, but we should have the choices.

Yeah.

I got my start a decade ago.

I'm only 25, but I've been doing this for a decade.

When I moved out of my mom's house, she was having issues with substance abuse.

And I moved in with my boyfriend and his family.

And I was sitting in a sex ed class taught by the baseball coach.

Right?

And realizing that there was no one at home that was going to fill in the gaps for me with this curriculum that was last updated in the 80s.

And, you know, this ties into our information ecosystem, too, because you could Google all you want, but finding good information on sex education is

is hard if you don't know where to look and often leads to misinformation.

Or porn.

Or porn, right?

Yeah.

And so I started getting active.

I started showing up to school board meetings, truly the most local level of government, and telling my story and then asking my friends if they'd come along and do the same.

And we won.