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I was having a conversation in the moment, and then it became a conversation of the moment.

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the internet.

So to really understand where we're headed next when it comes to platforms and internet discourse,

we first need to really understand and reckon with where we've been.

And that need is incredibly salient when it comes to online feminist discourse.

Back in 2013, online feminism was still in its Girl Boss era.

It was the era of Leslie Knope and notorious RBG t-shirts bought on Etsy.

Well, meaning, sure, but perhaps not the most inclusive.

Would it champion black women, poor women, trans women?

And if these women were justifiably angry about not having been included in the movement,

would that brand of feminism make room for that anger?

Ten years ago, writer Mickey Kendall had had enough.

She started the hashtag Solidarity Is for White Women on Twitter,

and it took off in a way that's almost kind of hard to imagine here in 2023.

Solidarity is for white women was meant to pull back the curtain and expose the ways that white

feminism had left so many black and brown women to fend for ourselves. In exposing this,

Mickey Kendall changed the face of online feminism. But it didn't necessarily make her well-liked

by the people she was calling out. But for Mickey, if being liked by everyone is the cost of being able to speak her truth,

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