Diversity & Feminism

Authentic Playlist at Misogyny Free Prom

May 15, 2009

A shout out to my girlfriends at Bust magazine, home of the GirlWideWeb and all things hip & 3rd wave feminist . They share the news today of an advocacy movement by The Women’s Health and Issues Club of the high school in Arcadia CA, which has resulted in a prom music playlist that is [...]

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Tools for Authentic Organizations: Dotmocracy

March 23, 2009

The end of “business as usual” Please, let us be coming to the end of “business as usual”. Conversations about whether MBA programs caused the financial crisis and what the future of capitalism should be suggest that ways of doing business that have long been seen as acceptable and even admirable are now being revealed [...]

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Black Organizations: Authenticity through "an obligation to our own"?

September 5, 2008

What makes an organization or business authentically “Black”? [Or for that matter, what makes an organization authentically "feminist", authentically "Mormon", authentically "Republican", and so on?] By my definition, an organization is authentically “Black” not when the majority of its members or employees are Black, but when the organization promotes the interests of the Black community. [...]

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Want Authenticity? Design Homophobia Out of the Organization

July 31, 2008

The System isn’t working at Omnicom. Omnicom says “we are committed to ensuring that we use our position to promote socially responsible policies and practices. Yet, Omnicom’s agency, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO (AMV/BBDO) , creates advertising that is anti-gay. Because Omnicom is not addressing the contradiction between who it says it is as an organization [...]

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Authentic or Not?: A Men’s Organization with a woman member

June 5, 2008

Recently, I told you about an organizational situation that raises some interesting questions about whether the organization is being authentic. The organization, a Men’s Chorus, has up to 249 male members and 1 woman member, my neighbor Joan Garry. I proposed that this organization is either very special or very inauthentic” how else could the [...]

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An Authentic Response from Glamour Magazine

January 17, 2008

This past summer, a story about a Glamour magazine staffer who was giving a talk about ‘what to wear to work’ was making the rounds among feminists and fashionistas. During the staffer’s lunchtime talk at a law firm, she allegedly remarked that wearing an Afro at work was “a Glamour Don’t “. Those who heard [...]

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