SXSW 2023
Queering Entrepreneurship for Inclusion and Impact
Description:
If you Google ‘entrepreneur’/ ask anyone to imagine an entrepreneur, it’s likely a white man from the Global North who’s done something to Innovate! Disrupt! Transform! often to become wealthy and/or famous. Even social / women’s / informal entrepreneurship are qualifiers, diversions from rather than inclusions to the norm. In my MPhil, I worked with queer entrepreneurs to queer entrepreneurship as a social construct by including queer folks AND in the academic sense. Queering is a questioning of norms, never settling on an answer, as a fixed answer perpetuates binaries, e.g., who is (or isn’t) an entrepreneur. My research uncovered the benefits of queering entrepreneurship (value creation, inclusion, impact) and indicates what a queered entrepreneurship could look like.
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Takeaways
- Appreciate what a queered entrepreneurship could look like and be inspired to help make it a reality not just for queer folks but also broader society
- Understand why entrepreneurship needs queering, looking at the current ‘norm’ and its challenges, and understanding the value of diversity & inclusion
- Understand how to queer entrepreneurship (include queer folks + actively question norms), and leave with suggestions for how to question those norms
Speakers
- Rhiannon Rees, Strategy Director, VMLY&R
Organizer
Rhiannon Rees, Strategy Director, VMLY&R
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