My name is Bridget Todd, and I love the internet.

And the fun fact about me is that anytime anyone brings up anything about the internet or technology,

my first inclination is to tell them about how a woman whose story they might not know is actually the reason we have that thing.

Like, did you know that a woman engineer is basically the reason we have cell phones and tablets?

But that she was fired from IBM in the 50s for being trans,

and her story was almost overlooked because of it.

Or what about those bored apes you might have been seeing on the social media feeds of celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton, and Winith Paltrow?

Did you know they were actually designed by a woman of color who kind of

got screwed out of the credit? Or what about the fact that a black woman who worked at the

social media platform Pinterest developed one of the first ever policies to keep medical

misinformation off social media way before COVID was ever a thing, but that she was actually

punished for it.

Y'all, I cannot stop talking about the ways that women,

black folks, queer folks, trans folks,

and other traditionally marginalized people are out here

shaping what it means to be on the Internet and technology,

even if our stories are not always told.

I started the podcast, there are no girls on the Internet,

so that our experiences online

would never go overlooked

and our stories would never go untold.

On There Are No Girls on the Internet,

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