Feminist Business Histories: Products, Customers, & Community (Class 2)
For our second conversation about Feminist Business Histories, we'll focus on three key elements: Products, Customers, and Community.
For our second conversation about Feminist Business Histories, we'll focus on three key elements: Products, Customers, and Community.
For our third class conversation, we'll delve into some stories about how feminist businesses managed to get things done. How did they make decisions? Share power? Act as "activists"? Make money?
An informal "Lunch N Learn" session -- we'll kick off with a presentation about feminist business histories, then dive into the timelines of three different examples to see the unique challenges that feminist businesses faced. After we discuss how they managed these challenges, we'll consider how you might build on their approaches when these issues crop up in your own business. (While especially relevant to feminist, activist, and social enterprise businesses, these examples have something to offer any kind of startup.)
Updating your Feminist Business Model? Ask questions. Get support. Explore ideas. Join us. If it's time to: -- Revise your #FeministBusiness Model Canvas, -- Consider how to expand your revenue model, -- Strengthen connections between what you can offer and what your customers deeply need, -- Confirm that your business coveys your values, or -- Revisit challenging […]
Come to this short Info Session to learn what's planned for our next Feminist Business History course, coming in Sept. - Oct. '23. Learn about this lighter version, designed with the busy, curious, feminist business person in mind. Get all your questions answered, so you know whether this class is for you. In this Info […]
Are you a feminist entrepreneur hoping to infuse your business with feminist principles? And you want to work wisely, avoiding common mistakes and building on feminist successes? This Feminist Business History course might be just right for you. Sign up here: This class is designed to help us remember what feminist businesspeople have already […]
In this second class session, we'll discuss some excerpts from Kristen Hogan's history of The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability (2016, Duke University Press). Participants will receive the reading assignment, with specific pages highlighted and a few questions to consider as they read.
How does a feminist business grow? We all know that growing as a feminist business means something beyond “scaling” or getting bigger. While some of us do want our business to get bigger, all of us want them to be better. We want them to flourish and grow according to our own feminist, anti-oppression, anti-extraction […]
Co-Learning Conversation: Vibrator Nation: How feminist sex toy stores changed the business of pleasure What's even better than a book club? A Co-Learning Conversation!! In a C0-Learning Conversation, we read the book in advance, knowing which sections to emphasize (or skip) and what questions to pursue. Then, we come together in a guided, semi-structured conversation. […]