Meet Seventeen Voices of the Year honoree Deja Foxx! 🎙Deja Foxx is an activist, college student, brand founder, and social media star who is leading Gen Z advocacy.
Sex ed is one class that often leaves high school students with more questions than answers. For Tuscon, Arizona native, it was the place where her passion for activism began. At only 15, Deja moved out of her mother's home and experienced hidden homelessness. Her immediate need for access to quality sexual and reproductive health education unveiled a new interest in advocacy that would shape the course of her young life.
I cut my hair — which at the time was down to my hips — to my shoulders on Instagram Live. I changed the way that I did my makeup. I changed the way that I dressed, the kind of respectability I was playing into the way that I dressed. I was more interested in self-expression instead of trying to fit into a box. I claimed ownership over my visual identity.
I can zoom out now and see how silly that seemed because it was such an amazing opportunity. Not only professionally and individually, but [it was] an amazing opportunity to advance what young people's roles should be in politics and where we should sit. I got to be one of the youngest campaign staffers in modern history. It was a wonderful opportunity to declare that, no, the internetreally having this gigantic impact. Content creators are influencing elections.
, my immediate feelings weren't shock or surprise. If you'd been doing this work, you knew it was coming. But I felt a deep sense of grief, and I still do. I grieve for all of the years that I've put into this. The years that I've given up a private life to do this work. I've made all of these concessions and put my energy, time, story, and safety in some moments, on the line, and we are further behind than when we started when I was 15. That is a really hard pill to swallow.
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