Arranged marriages and online dating, political protests and pre-natal care: These are just some of the topics that surface when women in their 20s and 30s are asked to define their generation. The answers take the forms of stories shared — through prose, poetry, paintings, film — in Imagining Ourselves, a participatory online exhibit (and published anthology) that throws a spotlight on the most educated, professionally empowered generation of women in history.

The exhibit was mounted by the International Museum of Women, and many TED women have had a hand in it, including museum board member Lori Bonn, Chair Elizabeth Colton, and Global Council members Eve Ensler and Hafsat Abiola. Contributors include Isabel Allende, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, Zadie Smith, Ani DiFranco, French actress Julie Delpy and Ukrainian skater Oksana Baiul. But the exhibit is an open mike of sorts, and it’s the unknown artists and personal stories that give the site its soul.