00:00I think that activism is beautiful, and I think that anybody who's willing to sort of stand up and put themselves on the line for anything that they believe in that strongly is beautiful.
00:30It's easy to get passionate about something that's interesting to you or something that sparks something in you, and that's not a thing you can make, that's not a thing you can find, I think it's just there, you know, it's sort of spiritual almost.
00:44I think it's important that from an early age, everybody's thinking about the idea of activism and being citizens and making change.
01:05I was a kid who, like, I remember riding around in a wagon with my mom and she went door to door, like, registering people to vote. So for me, I grew up that way, so I feel really lucky that I had that.
01:35I feel like I'm trying really hard to, the same way I try to write as if no one's actually paying attention, I try to live the same way, you know, it's important to sort of just be yourself as hard as you can.
02:05She's my partner in crime, and she's one of the smart young women coming up in this world, and I wanted her to see all of these amazing women.
02:35I think the way we're going to make television continue to look like the way the world looks is really simple. I mean, it's who is telling the stories.
03:05A lot has been made about the fact that Kerry Washington has been the first African American woman to star in a network drama in 40 years, and that is something.
03:34I like to believe that something is that the business has finally started to catch up with reality.
04:00I sort of can't believe that we're going to actually have Shondaland Thursdays, which was a joke that I used to put up on Twitter. I would say Shondaland Thursday, but now we're actually going to have Shondaland Thursday.
04:30I think a lot of people dream, and while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people are busy doing.
04:52I want to thank Shonda for that introduction, but I also want to thank her for writing about powerful women characters and making TV look like America.
05:11I want to thank Shonda for that introduction, but I also want to thank her for writing about powerful women characters and making TV look like America.
05:41It's an organization and a movement that I think is amazing. The need for everybody to sort of become involved in citizenship and voting feels more urgent than ever now.
05:55Megan Turnin, who's sort of involved in all of this organization, made me feel like girls are so important, and as we all know, girls move the world.
06:03When you are the only one, people feel you must represent everyone, but that is not storytelling.
