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 learn – do 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."