Desk Lunch

A community for all creative people of marginalized genders ✨ Made with love by @lizvwells + @katie_pooch

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If you or someone you know would like to share a story, feel free to contact us or fill out this form: https://t.co/Wcy7fVD3l3

Wishing you all the best 2021 possible, and thank you again for all of your support over the last three years.  We couldn’t do it without you. ❤️

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Hello!!! Have you missed us? We're back with a new issue! https://t.co/AvJmwDlU72

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We’re going to continue to send out issues on Wednesdays as we receive essays, but they will not be going out with any consistent cadence. As long as there are stories to tell, we’ll keep telling them.

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Hey y'all! No Desk Lunch issue today. We're taking this week off to develop some more content to share soon. Be good to each other! ✨

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@oktopushup ❤️

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@katrinamakes @JD__Baker Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! 💗💜💙

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What happens when a single question makes you rethink everything you know about yourself? @katrinamakes's story in this week's issue. https://t.co/46r5ZqLhSJ

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@lizvwells ❤️

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"The only thing New Yorkers do better than talk about how great New York is, is talk about how bad New York is." - @_berfinayhan on growing up a New Yorker and applying that spirit to design https://t.co/w7OtoSshUG

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"I’m still learning about sexism, and am well-aware I did not leave it behind by moving 6,000 miles away from Russia. The wage gap and casual misogyny exist in New York too...But the weight that lifted when I left is worth every moment of it." - @Ir1s https://t.co/LMzQvuhtsZ

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It's important to bring all of yourself to work every day—including your pronouns. https://t.co/8k729lxgzk

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@SabrinaHallnyc ❤️❤️❤️

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CW: grief and death

This week's essay from Suzan Choy gets to the heart of what it's like to go back to work while you are still grieving. https://t.co/k4cKlJGpQR

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My great friend @adrnnyp wrote a great thing about moving back home after living abroad 💔❤️🧡💛

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Today's essay from @adrnnyp couldn't be more relevant. Check out her story of dealing with American visas, struggling to make it in New York, and buying a one-way ticket back home https://t.co/8JOHXteq8W

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"It’s hard to talk about trauma to your workplace, but it has the potential to offer you the support you need and open meaningful conversations that can help those that use what you make." @EriolDoesDesign https://t.co/db4GHCzMfM

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#BREAKING: WIN!

Supreme Court just ruled that firing someone for being LGBTQ is a VIOLATION of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act!

WE DID IT Y'ALL! #DecisionDay
Read opinion here:
https://t.co/I8kqLV3gcN

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"Black lives built this country’s wealth and famed its success as the land of opportunity. These opportunities are the reason why our families came to this country, and left everything they knew behind." - @lauxpau
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