To borrow from Va-Bene’s closing statement and remind ourselves that LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights: each and every one of us should be invested in educating each other and practicing solidarity.
We don’t take for granted the time that activists and educators like Va-Bene, Eva, and Bella dedicate to spreading awareness on the state of LGBTQIA+ rights, and we are immensely grateful for their participation in our 2023 Pride Panel.
The Hotjar team expressed profound gratitude for being able to walk out from the panel with concrete actions to take, as well as a renewed desire to become makers of positive change.
Celebrating Pride Month in 2023: the Hotjar Pride Panel
In June 2023, in occasion of Pride Month, I curated the yearly Pride Panel for the company I work for, Hotjar.
The delivery consisted of:
- Project briefing and themes selection in collaboration with internal LGBTQIA+ group
- Speakers outreach and selection (I eventually chose Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, multidisciplinary artist from Kumasi, Ghana; Bella DuBalle, drag artist and activist from Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Eva Bloom, queer sex educator from Toronto, Canada)
- Internal comms & advertising of fundraising campaigns
- Contract preparation
- Copywriting of panel outline and questions to each speaker
- Copywriting of blog post
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