Liveblog: The Story of Women

Now we're cooking with gas. This conversation just got good.

Elisa: Anonymity is totally important. sometimes, but if we're activists it's important to claim who we are, otherwise people won't know.

Creating new history and moving forward, claiming identity is important.

I have no time, can't care if someone automatically dismissed my identity before they even knew me.

We get mocked and dismissed before BlogHer for talking about shoes.

Memory, association, skills used to know tv characters is dismissed whereas knowing baseball stats is praised.

The more we say "fuck it," the more judgments will become irrelevant.

I'm nobody's token. So i they put me on tv I will kick ass and it won't matter if they wanted to tokenize me.

Jessica of the Saartjie Project: One of the ways we use the Saartje project, we look at music videos every single day. There's a legacy behind us. You take what people are seeing every day, the Twinkie, and then give them the recipe for cake. Just telling stories, as mundane as they may seem, someone else can connect to it.

Ann Stone of National Women's History Museum: People don't like history because they don't hear fun and good stuff.

Discussion about story. We should become a story-sharing culture. Woman in audience lost her connection to a project recently that involved hundreds of hours of filmed stories.

How can women's history projects pop up on BlogHer. Elisa: do-ocracy. If you want it, post it.

You have to care about what other people write to get them to care about your story.

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The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.