A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity

Burchiellaro, Olimpia 2024. A (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity. Sexualities. 27 (4), pp. 998-1015. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221097333

TitleA (queer) CEO society? Lesbians Who Tech and the politics of extra-ordinary homonormativity
TypeJournal article
AuthorsBurchiellaro, Olimpia
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.

JournalSexualities
Journal citation27 (4), pp. 998-1015
ISSN1363-4607
1461-7382
Year2024
PublisherSage
Publisher's version
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221097333
Web address (URL)https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221097333
Publication dates
Published online27 Oct 2022
Published in print2024

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