Owen Blacker

Tagged “representation”

  1. On reactions to representations of diversity

    Lots of conversations about diversity, equity, inclusion and representation have been promoted as a result of one advert in Sainsbury’s 2020 Christmas campaign featuring a Black father singing about gravy to his daughter…

  2. “Love my son’s transgender dragon”

    Yesterday on the LGBTQ in Technology Slack, Franzi posted a screenshot they’d seen of a Facebook post with an adorable story. I make no promises as to whether it ever happened, I just found the story so cute that I had to share it more widely. The text was helpfully transcribed by Cable, another Slack user.

  3. Campaign BIG awards 2017

    Last night (Wed 29 Nov 2017) was the Campaign BIG awards and I thought a few of my favourites from the awards shortlist were worth a share to some of my less advertising-focussed friends.

  4. Visibility matters

    Or: Why Hollywood needs to stop ignoring us LGBT+ types and give us more screen time