Burchiellaro, Olimpia (2024) A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity. Sexualities, 27 (4). pp. 998-1015. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221097333
Burchiellaro, Olimpia (2024) A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity. Sexualities, 27 (4). pp. 998-1015. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221097333
Burchiellaro, Olimpia (2024) A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity. Sexualities, 27 (4). pp. 998-1015. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221097333
Abstract
The article explores the queer politics of homo/anti-normativity of Lesbians Who Tech, a corporate network for lesbian and queer women. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that critiques of ‘gay ordinariness’ are unable to capture extant ‘extra-ordinary’ trajectories of queer capitalist incorporation. I trace the ways in which corporate culture, leadership and values are currently reshaping queer life and politics in terms of a ‘CEO society’ to demonstrate that we should avoid assuming that anti-normativity is always on the side of the progressive and instead consider how this is taken up by the very institutions it is intended to contest.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | queer activism; homonormativity; diversity; anti-normativity; lesbian |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2024 10:04 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:37 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38676 |
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