All posts by Jules Jackson, McKenzie Malone, Anna Truss

Jules Jackson is a passionate Chattanooga-based filmmaker who sees film and video as profoundly important, thought-provoking artistic mediums to share stories. When he isn’t out with a camera or in his painting studio, he serves local artists through his work as ArtsBuild’s Programs Assistant. McKenzie Malone has studied Communication at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. An outdoorswoman at heart, her writing focuses on the therapeutic experience of travel. She enjoys delving back into the memories of time spent away from home and sharing them with others. When she isn’t writing, you can find her on a river or a mountain venturing into the unknown. Anna Truss is a writer and aspiring internal communications specialist with experience in project management, graphic design, web design, and web content creation. When she isn’t writing, she can be found journaling or reading a good book at her home base in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She has studied Communication at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The Corporate Rainbow – by Jules Jackson, McKenzie Malone, Anna Truss

At the end of the corporate Pride rainbow lies a darker story to be told

Since 1999 when President Bill Clinton designated June as Pride month in the United States, the surface level social climate has grown to be more widely accepting of the LGBTQIA+ community. Corporations have been quick to pick up on this, adjusting their marketing angle during June to reflect consumers ideals. Similar to the social climate though, this effort appears to be performative when viewed through a narrower lens. At the end of the corporate rainbow is a money trail of donations to politicians who support anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation.
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