How Subaru seduced lesbians (nope, not kidding)
It’s the mid-‘90s. Subaru is struggling to boost declining revenue after their previous attempt (a luxury car and a stupidly ironic ad campaign — don’t ask) failed dramatically. They’ve just …
Why to hire autistic creatives. (The answer may surprise you.)
It’s World Autism Month, also called Autism Acceptance Month, which is great. I think knowing more about autism, and being more accepting of autistic people, is great. Let’s do that. …
Ads I Wish I’d Made: No Decision Without Us
CoorDown has released their annual video in honor of World Down Syndrome Day 2025, which is tomorrow, March 21. And I Wish I’d Made it because I would have loved …
Unrelated to Advertising: On humans and dehumanization
This isn’t related to advertising at all — I’m not even going to try to rationalize any kind of connection like I sometimes do. It’s just important. It’s also a …
4 Places to Hire Black Freelancers, Because Y’all
I’m happy that, as DEI programs in every industry are under attack (in honor of Black History Month, I guess?), I’ve seen very few advertising people come out and say, …
NaNoWriMo’s AI BS
NaNoWriMo has come out with a statement of “If you don’t write the novel yourself, we’re cool with that.” And people have things to say about it. NaNoWriMo — National …
LGBTQ+ 102: More Stuff About Pride to Know and Share
You’ve almost certainly gotten some very important information about observing LGBTQ+ Pride Month: Don’t use your LGBTQ+ team members as mascots, don’t drop your support for LGBTQ+ people and causes …
Unrelated to Advertising: Bugs Bunny and gender identity
June is Pride Month, and I was trying to think of something to post about, whether it’s brands doing right during Pride Month (uplifting, but done already) or Target’s disappearing …
Embracing non-toxic neutrality
This one’s for the people who’ve been called “negative.” It’s for the wearers of Resting Bitch Face. It’s for the ones with a naturally deadpan delivery that sometimes confuses people …
How to (and not to) Juneteenth (c/o people qualified to talk about it)
Question: Why did Walmart apologize and withdraw their celebratory Juneteenth ice cream? Answer: Because yikes. Walmart’s Celebration Edition Juneteenth Ice Cream promised to “share and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and …