Leadership

on brand and women

In Our Culture, Every Woman Is a Brand

By Kelly Diels / October 18, 2018 /

In order to get access to rights and resources, every woman in our culture has to present herself as saleable, consumable object: we must brand ourselves.

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Dear Women’s Empowerment Coaches: Is Your Teacher’s Teacher a Men’s Rights Activist?

By Kelly Diels / July 30, 2018 / Comments Off on Dear Women’s Empowerment Coaches: Is Your Teacher’s Teacher a Men’s Rights Activist?

Through their books, coaching institutes, classes, and workshops, men’s rights activists have trained MANY women’s life coaches and “empowerment” leaders.

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We Are Each Other’s Necessary Tendernesses

By Kelly Diels / June 20, 2018 / Comments Off on We Are Each Other’s Necessary Tendernesses

The best thing we ever do is lean on each other and lift each other up because we are the culture makers, and together we rise.

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What Looks Like Personal Choices are Often Framed Up for Us By Society

By Kelly Diels / June 19, 2018 / Comments Off on What Looks Like Personal Choices are Often Framed Up for Us By Society

The way we use our time is predetermined and overdetermined by our society and gender roles, and society frames our productivity as “personal choices.”

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #531: Ask for Way More Than You Need

By Kelly Diels / June 4, 2018 /

When we don’t have institutions underwriting us, we have to underwrite each other. Feminist Marketing Tip #531: how feminist makers can flourish.

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Talking with My Hands and Trying to Be Good with Emelia

By Kelly Diels / May 3, 2018 / Comments Off on Talking with My Hands and Trying to Be Good with Emelia

This photo makes me smile. Admittedly, talking with my hands is perhaps not the most effective way to communicate on the radio.

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Dear Multi-Passionate Maker

By Kelly Diels / April 28, 2018 / Comments Off on Dear Multi-Passionate Maker

Entrepreneur spaces will often tell people with multiple passions and focuses that we are flaky, but I think we are cultivating a rich body of work.

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Our Audiences Aren’t Stupid. Let’s Take Them Seriously.

By Kelly Diels / April 25, 2018 /

I dislike “meet them where they’re at” marketing advice. It feels like contempt for the audience. Let’s assume our customers and readers are smart and brave

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #421: Ditch the Makeover Myth

By Kelly Diels / April 21, 2018 / Comments Off on Business Tip for Culture Makers #421: Ditch the Makeover Myth

In conventional online marketing, we’re taught to “manufacture” authority with a makeover story. Why? So that people will obey our authority and buy.

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Business Tip for Culture Makers #1225: Yes, Use Photos of Yourself!

By Kelly Diels / March 19, 2018 / Comments Off on Business Tip for Culture Makers #1225: Yes, Use Photos of Yourself!

Our challenge is to develop that well of images while avoiding conventional, performative beauty-signalling that props up existing oppressive narratives.

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