We are less when we don't include everyone - Stuart Milk.
Significance of May 17
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexuals, transgender, intersex people and all other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or expressions, and sex characteristics. 17 May, IDAHOT is an opportunity to raise awareness of the human rights of LGBTQ+ people. It is also a chance to celebrate our diversity.
Rainbow Library
To commemorate this day, AdobeProud India Network partnered with 'Road to Utopia' team to bring a unique concept to life at Adobe Campus. The event 'Rainbow Library' was conceptualized on the premise that people from the LGBTQ+ community will come in as 'books' and share their real life chapters around various emotions. Adobe employees through this immersive experiences get to read (actually hear) these stories and relate how our strength lies in differences and appreciating similarities. The entire set up was engaging with colorful rainbow props, informative literature and books around LGBTQ+ community, self reflective exercises and a lot more! The entire event theme was around AdobeProud Pride theme for this year - ''Better Together''.
Stories as powerful change agents
This event was conducted across all sites of Adobe in Bangalore and Noida on the same day afternoon to create awareness and sensitization amongst employees.
Books that speak
The event lasted for three hours with each site having three storytellers (books) narrating their stories for seven minutes each with a bunch of employees at a time.
Ask Me Anything
At the end of every story, there was time kept for 'Ask Me Anything' allowing employees to address any fears, bias, myth they hold about the community. With every ding ding ding, it's time to move to experience next book.
Heartening feedback from the participants
Thank You!
Great job done by team Road to Utopia, AdobeProud SPOCs, passionate bunch of volunteers, ever ready to help members from GWS and security team and direction and support from Noida & Bangalore site councils. Together this is yet another step forward to create a workplace that works for everyone. #AdobeForAll