Description
This session brings together three critical examinations of the complex dynamics between LGBTQ+ movements and corporate/institutional support.
- Olena Shevchenko explores how international funding structures can unintentionally weaken civil society by creating dependency, competition, and mission drift.
- Charlene Liu and Raymond Phang evaluate whether Asian workplace LGBTQ+ policies offer genuine support or merely performative allyship.
- Anna Berbers investigates Pride organizers' tensions between protest legitimacy and corporate sponsorship, and the shift from pinkwashing to pinkhushing, where corporations scale back LGBTQIA+ support to avoid backlash.
Together, this session aims to explore how to navigate complex financial necesities.
Olena Shevchenko
Charlene Liu
Raymond Phang
Anna Berbers