Facing duality as a community
What It Means To Be A Queer Designer, and the Club That Helped Me Figured it Out
The Queer Design Club is cultivating ownership of design narratives within gentrified corporate structures.
Social capital for rising entrepreneurs
Connecting Black Founders to the Startup Ecosystem
PitchBlack, Backstage Capital, Peaches Monroe, and the community activity supporting growth and equitable funding for Black-owned startups.
Mutual Rewards for Employee and Employer
Invisible Dollars: Salary Transparency's Impact on Your Pay Rate
Being transparent with colleagues around earnings and wages is an important and necessary step individuals can take to help to decrease the wage gap.
Outfitting a Rapidly Growing Female Sport Industry
Society Nine: The Boxing Lifestyle Brand Drawing on the Fight in Every Woman
“It unleashed a whole slew of emotions along the emotional spectrum that I never knew I could feel all at once. I felt like a new sense of womanhood was unleashed, like a fuller sense of self.”
Applying Corporate Strategy to an Indie Personal Care Brand
The Self-Funded Latina Haircare Co. Beating Big Name Brands
"You have so much power; what they’re going to have to pay for and do the most in order to try and replicate, you already have the insider information."
Fundraising Essentials from the Founder of Black Girl Ventures
Advice on Raising Startup Funds as a Woman of Color
Addressing a lack of access to wealth or financial resources, an inability to tap into influential networks, and difficulty hiring.
Resilience in the face of adversity
What We’re Reading: July 2019
Most of today’s popular examples of success suggest that achievement is a linear path from scarcity to abundance. What if we embrace the struggle?
Equity for POC founders
Building Social Responsibility Into a New Cannabis Business
"I can’t help but wonder who is shaping the future of this burgeoning industry—especially as the war on drugs still targets so many people who share my lived experience as a queer, Black woman."
"You have to absolutely be one hundred percent obsessed"
Growing a Genderless Beauty Brand
The Fluide co-founder opens up about what it's like to leave the startup world to build an LGBTQ-centered cosmetic company.
Coming out while raising capital
LGBTQ Entrepreneurs Are Coming Out & Beating Odds
“Being gay and being Black are superpowers, they make me unique and very beneficial for a VC firm.”