Gender Reveal

Episode 142: Lily Zheng

Jan 23, 2023

57:27

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Lily Zheng

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Why DEI Programs Fail

04:04

Why DEI Programs Fail

04:04

Can I Pay You Money to Talk via Zoom to Our Company?

03:16

Performative Alignment

03:43

Introduction

3min

The Best Word of the Year So Far

2min

Is Bussy a Boy Pussy?

3min

This Week in Gender

2min

What Makes You Different From Other DEI Practitioners?

4min

How to Tell if DEI Is Working?

2min

Transphobia

3min

Do You Think That Healthy Workplaces Exist?

2min

Why DEI Programs Fail

4min

10.

Do You Have a Walk Away?

3min

11.

Performative Alignment

4min

12.

Building Trust, Building Goodwill, Building Trust

2min

13.

How to Build Trust in Relationships

5min

14.

How Do You Deal With Your Trauma?

3min

15.

The Ethical Sellout

3min

16.

Do You Feel Like You're Delaying the Revolution?

3min

17.

Corporate Trans Day of Remembrance Events

2min

18.

Trans Day Remembrance

2min

19.

Can I Pay You Money to Talk via Zoom to Our Company?

3min

20.

The Future of Gender

3min

Tuck speaks with DEI strategist Lily Zheng (they/them). Topics include:

Why pizza can be more useful than a 60-minute workshop
Can we DEI our way out of transphobic workplaces?
What makes allyship performative? (It’s not what you think!)
Should corporations be hosting Trans Day of Remembrance events?
Plus: does DEI work delay the proletarian revolution??

This Week in Gender: an exclusive Gender Conceal clip with Kirby Conrod about all things -ussy.

Find Lily at lilyzheng.co and on LinkedIn.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: DeleteMe (promo code: TUCK20)

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