Queer Business

Reimagining Business
Queer [Business] Failure
We tend to think of businesses as enterprises that need to last, sustain, grow, and grow some more. If you view a business as an asset—an entity that can grow and sustain value, with a primary purpose of building wealth—then it’s impossible to square temporality or failure as positive possibilities. But if, as I’ve been […]
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Reimagining Business
On the Limits of What a Business Can Do
This post is adapted from [Im]Possible Business, a zine exploring radical business alternatives. Learn more and download the publication here. Read another post in this series: Business as Queer Failure Utopias have always entailed disappointments and failures. — Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother Étaín was an “underthings” store in Portland, Maine, that offered an inclusive […]
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Because the grody carpets needed to be ripped up anyway, one of the first events in the new space was a night of pizza wrestling. Unfortunately, it then took many weeks to actually rip up the even more grody, now pizza-soaked, carpets. This is hearsay. I wasn’t there.
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It’s now called, simply, The Jewel Box. Similar in ethos to Fox Market, owner Nathaniel Meiklejohn says: “I don’t want to go on record saying I want a place that’s welcoming to everyone. I want a space that’s more welcoming to marginalized people.”