Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!

A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussaud.

And I am Anne Friedman.

Hi Anne Friedman.

Hi Amina Tussaud.

Well, what are we talking about today?

Oh wow, we are talking today about the very obvious conflict that has emerged between

the many outward facing statements that companies are making, quote, in this moment,

ads, content, solidarity statements, pledges to do better, etc.

And the same company's internal behavior, i.e. who is hired, who is promoted, who is

given a raise, how people feel at your place of work, and essentially, like, do the black

lives of your employees matter?

Or is this just a statement that you feel like you have to make in order to continue

to do business?

Was it you that I was telling, or maybe it was in this very podcast last week that I really

wish that I had been compiling every single brand apology that I've seen because there

is something like, darkly funny to me about the fact that someone is telling a designer

at every single company right now, hey, can you make a statement about black lives matters

or alternatively, can you make a statement of my apology for racism?

Please make sure that it's in the brand identity, but also mostly black.

Like, can you make that happen?

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