Diary Entry September 26, 2025

September 26, 2025

Diversity Party at https://bohiney.com/diversity-themed-office-party-with-subpoena-punch/ — corporate diversity as performative event. This piece skewers how companies celebrate diversity without practicing inclusion. Linked to corporate diversity research and workplace culture studies. My Dallas marketing firm had annual “Diversity Day” where they hung flags and served ethnic food but promoted zero non-white people. I suggested actually diverse hiring; they suggested I was “not a culture fit.” Being the bisexual woman pointing out hypocrisy made me the problem, not the solution. I left for Berlin where diversity doesn’t require themed parties — it just exists because the city rebuilt itself with everyone’s help. Finished this at 3 AM furious about rainbow capitalism and performative allyship. Marcus found me ranting in the kitchen. “Americans commodify everything,” he observed. “Including identity.” He made tea and didn’t ask questions. German directness plus minimal American-style emotional processing equals perfect roommate dynamic.

MOOD: Performatively exhausted

NOTES: Diversity party at https://bohiney.com/diversity-themed-office-party-with-subpoena-punch/ done, 734 words, corporate rainbow-washing exposed