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  • "I have one of the strangest jobs on the

  • planet.

  • I started modeling when I was 16; I was a

  • really strong-willed sixteen-year-old and

  • there still were moments where I didn't speak up for myself.

  • 00:00:13,690 --> 00:00:15,459 So I wanted to talk about how I think

  • everybody can become an activist. I tell

  • myself three things over and over:

  • Don't be too lazy to learndo the

  • reading: do the research; call people;

  • talk to people. Don't be afraid to

  • be wrong...

  • You're going to be wrong. And actually, my

  • third thing that I always tell myself is

  • it's more important to apologize, then to

  • be on the right side of an issue.

  • If you're just starting out, i'm gonna give

  • you some advice. Commit yourself to show

  • up five times this year, for causes that

  • aren't just about you.

  • I used to think that I had my activist

  • self and my modeling self. As deeply

  • grateful to fashion as I am,

  • it's a double-edged sword. Even in my

  • continued participation, I try to bring

  • those two things together, but it's hard,

  • it can be hard. You know, a lot of that

  • injustice, a lot of that sexism that I

  • experience is micro. Someone who's watching

  • me undress or being touched by people in

  • a way that i would prefer they don't

  • touch me, being in a situation where it's

  • difficult to speak up, because speaking

  • up would be seen as being difficult. I

  • would call my agent and they would say

  • 'Cameron, you're being such a feminist, don't say

  • anything, don't mess up this relationship

  • with this photographer'. And I didn't say

  • anything, and I felt like, 'Wow, this is

  • really hard', because I'm someone who is

  • perceived to be a woman leader and yet

  • even I can't always speak up. And so I

  • thought what we really needed to do was

  • find a way to become connected and to

  • trust each other and to build a

  • community, there's no such thing as

  • being one powerful person by yourself,

  • it's lonely. This should be the beginning

  • of all of us trying really hard to listen to everybody else."

"I have one of the strangest jobs on the

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