Diversity: Performative | Backlash | Too many letters, not enough action

Ted Bauer
6 min readJun 18, 2021

There are several tiers to this concept.

The first tier is about how we speak about diversity not being common or universal, even within the same industry. You’ll see DEI, DEIB, DEIBA, D&I, and more.

That tier is not necessarily surprising: acronyms allow us to easily form in-groups and out-groups around what we

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.