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D&I Weekly News Round-Up: Special edition

Welcome to the 500th edition of our Diversity & Inclusion News Round-Up. This is a special edition with some of my favourite videos from the past 499 editions (in no specific order).

Enjoy!

Compliance Officer – Leadership & Culture

Caroline Berns - Head of D&I and Talent Acquisition MMEA

Compliance Officer – Leadership & Culture

Compliance Officer – Leadership & Culture

Girls’ empowerment

The phrases "walking like a girl," "throwing a ball like a girl," and "fighting like a girl" are often used in a very negative context. The famous Always campaign features children and young adults who were asked to act "like a girl".

Belonging

This beautiful Danish TV station ad “All that we share” shows that putting people into boxes does not work - and that we all have more in common than we think.

Women empowerment

Nike’s advert “Da Da Ding” is an empowering video featuring Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, as well as various Indian female athletes – encouraging women to break conventions.

Black representation

Hair Love” is a very sweet (and Oscar-winning!) short movie from Sony Pictures Animation about an African American dad learning to style his daughter’s hair

Anti-racism

Powerful video from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) – challenging their own practices to “not show the full picture”, perpetuating racist stereotypes

World down syndrome day

To celebrate World Down Syndrome Day 2018, Wouldn't Change a Thing produced a beautiful carpool karaoke-style video, showcasing 50 moms and their children with Down syndrome. Watch it here.

Paralympics

This brilliant advert Super. Human. was created by the British TV network Channel 4 for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Gender equality

Pixar’s “Purlis a short animated movie about a pink ball of yarn that starts working at B.R.O. Capital and struggles with the all-male office culture.

LGBTQ+

As their senior thesis project, two computer animation students created this award-winning short film "In a Heartbeat" which tells the story of a boy and his crush on another boy.

Inclusion in the workplace

The Australian broadcaster SBS published this video as part of their The real you matters campaign to promote the importance of inclusion in the workplace.

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