Marjolein Dennissen

99 Diversity killjoys? Table 6. Continued Org. Network Frequency Events Disability No set frequency - Kick off meeting of the disability network - Workshops/trainings on energy balance - Workshop on networking - Workshop on appropriate manners with regard to disabilities and disabled employees - Open coffee meetups for network members - Network meeting on how to get a hold on your own career - Network meeting on the role of managers (& drinks) Govt Women No set frequency - Keynote on stereotypes and awareness - Various workshops, for example on social media, stress management, and gardening. - Event ‘The future is now’ LGBT No set frequency - Keynote on ‘Intersex’ (& dinner in pub) - Movie ‘Pride’ - LGBT campaigns on LGBT-related events (i.e., Pink Saturday, Monday or Wednesday) - Collaboration to and participation in International LGBT conferences - Participation in National Pride Parade Disability 1 per year - Annual conferences about themes like trust and empowerment, or self-reliance and independence Socializing. The first category are events organized with a focus on socializing and community building. These events encourage network members to meet each other in an informal environment and share experiences without the fear of being othered (Hearn, 1996; Prasad & Prasad, 2002). These social events include for example drinks, lunches and open coffees. Questioning organizational norms. A second category entails events that question the dominant organizational norms that contribute to organizational inequalities. An example of such an event is the keynote organized by the LGBT network in Govt about the topic of intersex; that is a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not seem to fit the normative and typical biological definitions of woman or man (NNID 1 , 2017). During the event, the normalization of the binary categorization of women and men is challenged. The keynote speaker discusses the implications of the word norm as something that is constructed by society: “We [people with an intersex condition] are also fighting against the norm, we are fighting for social change” . This event exemplifies how organizational norms regarding heteronormativity can be addressed and actively discussed among network members. Another example of an event in which organizational 1 Dutch Network Intersex and DSD (Differences of Sex Development).