Building Belonging: DEI in the Time of Backlash — Why Wicked Hits Different Right Now

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Everyone deserves a chance to fly! You know Wicked as a story of friendship, but do you know it as a story of Pipeline Warriors? Smashing inequitable barriers to entry, denouncing false meritocracy, allyship against systemic power hoarding – it’s all there! The deeply, deeply embedded DEI themes in Wicked make it one of our favorite cultural icons and one of our favorite movies to unpack together as a team. So today we bring you that conversation complete with our love for Wicked and all of our best takes about why this is THE movie for DEIB in our time.