and I think it's interesting as we talk about empowerment. Aimee and I earlier spoke about self-empowerment versus being empowered by some other entity.Open to anyone's thoughts I think really, but just what is the role, and should be the role of men in this movement?
the suppression, I think that's what mobilizes them. And Aimee , how do you think about the representation and then also which stories to tell as you're thinking about the stories that you yourself are writing and what you want to share with the audiences?
now. So introductions and what issue that's impacting Asians and Asian-Americans that's really important and matters to you right now. My name is Aimee Phan. I am a fiction writer.
I think it's amazing. I know Aimee is also working in a different vein in that way.
I think the concept of having this panel here today, that spoke before we came here together today, I heard that Aimee Mullins was coming. I heard that Melissa was coming.
So if you want to read any more about them or hear more about their work, that's the place you can check it out. So you've obviously already met Aimee here, Aimee Mullins, with a few labels-- actress, athlete, advocate. But none, really just Amy we already talked about that.
I think it's amazing. And I was thinking when also Aimee was speaking about when you see a girl,
really important to consider when we're thinking about a lot of laws that are being enacted and proposed right now. Thank you, Aimee . So my answer, I think, ties into that quite a bit. My name is Anoop Prasad.
What are the stories that resonate with students? Well, Aimee was just involved in one. One of our classes on Vietnamese-American literature did a poetry reading around the Me Too Movement, and we found that over half our class
That's why I'm so proud to be from the Bay, and to have had my roots in Silicon Valley, because things that are happening in this place Yeah. Aimee ? I am very aware that any success I have is due to community organizations.
That's why I'm so proud to be from the Bay, and to have had my roots in Silicon Valley, because things that are happening in this place Russell, Aimee , some quick last thoughts.
I think it's amazing. And I think that also comes from what Aimee was saying earlier, how you're brought up.
That's why I'm so proud to be from the Bay, and to have had my roots in Silicon Valley, because things that are happening in this place How can we use the phone-- I mean, Aimee , you suggested that the phone, in some sense, has sort of galvanized and organized folks.
SHERYL J. ANDERSON: Well, I adore Brian and Cameron. And while we're shouting out, just shout out to Aimee Holmberg, our production designer, and her entire crew who created these spaces. When they took me on to the set for the interior of Sullivan's for the first time, I burst into tears
The second part of our day today. Happy to kick off this broader discussion on issues of gender equality empowerment, falling on a conversation that Aimee and I started here, and I honestly can't imagine a more qualified group of women to be having this conversation with.
Thank you. Wonderful. Well, thanks to everyone who participated today, our panelists, to Aubrey, to Gary, who's building all of our voices, as well, Hala Kazim, and Aimee Mullins, who spoke on our previous panel. Thanks so much, and for any more information, and to download the song as you've been asked, go to makemyvoicematter.org and find more information there.
So we recruit a great group of authors. We've had pep talks from Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Dave Eggers, Sue Grafton, of course Aimee Bender, Nick Hornby. Just all these great authors that send out these messages that tend to hit your inbox just when you are about to die.