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This episode of THE Underground Source of El Paso, TX features El Paso Sun City Pride! Carlos Salais, member of Sun City Pride and co-director of El Paso's Pride Parade tells us all about this year's Pride celebration and how it's happening all summer long - not just in June! Press play to learn what events are coming up and how you can help!

 Follow El Paso Sun City Pride on Instagram - @epsuncitypride -

 This episode produced by M. De Santiago and G. Armendariz. Edited and Hosted by M. De Santiago. Intro/outro music track - "Progenitor" by Ancient Curses/GambolMusic. Cover image courtesy of El Paso Sun City Pride. Rated CHLL.

Happy Pride month, its that time of year again where corporations slap rainbows all over the logos and businesses. This goes by many different names, rainbow capitalism, rainbow baiting, or maybe pink washing. But how do we know if a company is really supporting the queer community? or is it all just one bit marketing ploy. This week on the Pod Karbon & Emily give you their take, the history behind rainbow baiting and also dive into the idea of needing to compensate the artist. 

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From this episode, here are 3 ACTIONS to make your business more inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity. If we’re looking to make lasting change, we need to continue the conversation around workplace intersectionality all the time - not just in reaction to current events.

• Encourage use of pronouns - not just for queer employees but for everyone
• Revise company policies - act in accordance with the law and your values on everything from workplace dress codes to hiring and firing practices 
• Rethink how you categorize your customers. Should you be making gender binary products or would your customers and business benefit from being more fluid.

This isn’t a one and done kind of thing - we’re all learning and growing together and so should our company policies. So keep thinking about diversity and inclusion and how you can be a leader and not a follower in business.

GUEST

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This episode we're switching it up a little bit. I have my roommate Youssef with me and we're talking about Cosmos. If you haven't seen Cosmos, you can watch it on Disney +. Go watch and tell me what you think. Enjoy!

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