There Are No Girls on the Internet

WE’RE DOING A LIVE  SHOW in NYC and VIRTUALLY on 5/28! Get tickets: Tangoti.com/live    You probably know about Janet Jackson’s infamous SuperBowl “wardrobe malfunction,” but did you know it inspired the creation of YouTube? Kimberly Foster, founder of For Harriet discusses how sexism and racism is baked into tech and what it means.   Follow ForHarriet on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/forharriet   [ In case you’re curious, Bridget’s favorite Janet Jackson song is “Together Again,” but her favorite Janet Jackson deep cut is “Again”  ]    Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Say hello at hello@tangoti.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LGBTQ youth and the people who affirm and support them are being attacked online. Alejandra Caraballo, Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Law Cyber Law Clinic explains why it should concern all of us. WE’RE DOING A LIVE  SHOW in NYC and VIRTUALLY on 5/28! Get tickets: Tangoti.com/live  Donate to the Trevor Project: tangoti.com/trevor  Subscribe to Alejandra’s amazing podcast Queering The Law: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1949544 Follow Alejandra: https://twitter.com/Esqueer_ Find a BansOffOurBody rally near you: Tangoti.com/rally Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Say hello at hello@tangoti.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WE’RE DOING A LIVE SHOW IN NYC AND ONLINE ON 5/28. GET TICKETS: Tangoti.com/live    Trust no one...except for TANGOTI host Bridget when she says that the pragmatic, efficient  and skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully deeply inspired her. (Photographic evidence: https://www.tangoti.com/xfiles ) And it turns out Bridget isn’t alone.   The Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media’s study on the Scully Effect found that Scully inspired a generation of women and girls to go into STEM.   Read the full report on the Scully Effect: https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/the-scully-effect-i-want-to-believe-in-stem/#:~:text=Moderate%2Fheavy%20viewers%20place%20a,in%20behaviors%20relating%20to%20STEM.   Want to support the show? (thank you!)   Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE   Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Say hello at hello@tangoti.com    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The news of Elon Musk potentially buying Twitter shows nobody is listening to Black women when we speak up about our experiences online.We've been here before and it has big consequences. Let's revisit this episode of There Are No Girls on the Internet about how Black women tried to save Twitter.  Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Say hello at hello@tangoti.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Late last night, Politico published a leaked draft opinion of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v Wade, the ruling legalizing abortion in the United States.Things are bleak, but it's not all bad news! In December, the FDA permanently eased rules around accessing abortion pills via telemedicine. Shortly after that change Bridget joined her friends Sam and Anney at the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You to discuss the tech implications of self managed abortion through abortion pills.    DONATE TO ABORTION FUNDS: tangoti.com/donate FIND AN IRL MOBILIZATION NEAR YOU TO SUPPORT ABORTION ACCESS: https://front.moveon.org/bans-off-our-bodies-resources/   Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Say hello at hello@tangoti.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this EMERGENCY EPISODE, Bridget sits down with producer Michael to discuss the news that Twitter’s board accepted billionaire Elon Musk’s 44 billion dollar bid to buy the social media platform and what it means for traditionally marginalized users.    Learn more about UltraViolet’s quest to build a feminist internet: http://feministnet.com/   Subscribe to our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Want to support the show? (thank you!) Buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Just want to say god dag / Բարեւ Ձեզ / hello?  We'd love to hear from you! hello@tangoti.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Netflix’s Inventing Anna presents a flashy version of fake German heiress Anna Delvey’s scams. Rachel Deloache Williams was scammed out of $62,000 by Anna on a disastrous trip to Morocco.  In today’s episode, Rachel discusses true crime shows like Inventing Anna and Hulu’s The Dropout and what it means for all of us when liars and scammers are elevated and amplified.     Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin Almost Ruined My Life. Now She’s Being Rewarded for Her Crimes: https://time.com/6146419/inventing-anna-rachel-williams-anna-delvey/ Check out Rachel’s book My Friend Anna: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Friend-Anna/Rachel-DeLoache-Williams/9781982114107   Want to support the show? (thank you!) Buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Subscribe to our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Just want to say god dag / Բարեւ Ձեզ / hello?  We'd love to hear from you! hello@tangoti.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former comedian Coco Briscoe started chronicling her search for love on TikTok with her popular series Dating DC. It led to her arrest.    The Washington Post- “She started sharing her dating life on TikTok. She ended up in jail:” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/coco-briscoe-arlington-tiktok-bartenders/2021/08/14/602f747e-f93c-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html   Follow Coco on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cocobriscoe    Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Just want to say hello / god dag / Բարեւ Ձեզ ?  We'd love to hear from you! hello@tangoti.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After losing her job, Amanda Moore went undercover to investigate the white supremacists Making America "Great" Again.This episode was taped LIVE at Washington DC's Union Stage as part of Digital Void's Our Connected Future event.Read more about Amanda's story: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/amanda-moore-undercover-maga/Follow Amanda: https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17Learn more about Digital Void: https://www.digitalvoid.media/   Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter Say hello at hello@tangoti.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alison Turkos was gang raped at gunpoint during a Lyft ride. She is suing Lyft, the New York Police Department and fighting for systemic change.   Read Alison’s open letter- My Letter to the Federal Prosecutors Who Won’t Take My Case: https://aturkos.medium.com/my-letter-to-the-federal-prosecutors-who-wont-take-my-case-774d78912578   Follow Alison: https://twitter.com/alisonturkos   Want to support the show? (thank you!) Subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, or buy some merch at There Are No Girls on the Internet’s store: TANGOTI.COM/STORE Join our newsletter: Tangoti.com/newsletter  Say hello at hello@tangoti.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.