Queer ADHDer in Marketing & Advertising 🌈 | Community Manager & DEI Lead at The Agency Collective
We know that advertising and marketing has a deeply racist and xenophobic history; to tackle racial and ethnic diversity without acknowledging that is like trying to drive with your eyes closed. Thinking "well I'm not racist" and staying silent doesn't tackle anything. White supremacy is a global systemic institutional problem, we have to actively be vocally anti-racist to even begin to tackle it. To stare your own white privilege in the face, acknowledge it, and challenge it is a deeply uncomfortable experience - and that's a good thing. White supremacy gives us social, educational, and occupational advantages; actively trying to diamante that probably scares you - and that's a good thing. So if you're working with an all-white all-British agency at the moment, just give it a moment to think about why you chose them. And maybe check out these guys instead: Patch & Pieces Samson Owolabi at Bearded Fellows Literal Humans hyperr Tara Attfield-Tomes at East Village PR Axe + Saw GottaBe! Marketing
October is black history month, so our head of diversity, equity and inclusion, Rosie Symes 🏳️🌈 looks here at some of the statistics on how advertising and marketing in particular, are falling behind in terms of having racially and ethnically divergent teams, particularly when we look at executive-level roles, and what we can do to change this as agency leaders. You can also download the PDF if you are using a screen reader. #BlackHistoryMonth #DiversityMatters #InclusionMatters #AdvertisingIndustry #MarketingIndustry #ExecutiveRoles #Leadership #RepresentationMatters #AgencyCollective #AgencyCommunity
Literal Humans
10mo
Thanks for the shoutout Rosie 💫
Jennifer O.
10mo
Thank you Rosie, nicely said 👏
Thank you for the mention, Rosie 💛