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The Queering Accounting Manifesto

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  • Ghio, Alessandro
  • McGuigan, Nicholas
  • Powell, Lisa

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The Queering Accounting Manifesto draws on the queer revolution, which began in the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, to declare the following statements: We denounce all expressions of ‘norms’ and ‘normal’. We will be alert to and call out all expressions of gender and sexual control within accounting. We reject a single view of accounting. We embrace fluidity and reject false binaries. We encourage Queer unlearning. Queer and non-queer accountants must hold space for one another. Readers should continuously Queer this Queering Accounting Manifesto. We end by calling on all readers, queer and non-queer, to join us and dismantle heteropatriarchy in accounting.

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  • Ghio, Alessandro & McGuigan, Nicholas & Powell, Lisa, 2023. "The Queering Accounting Manifesto," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:crpeac:v:90:y:2023:i:c:s1045235421001143
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102395
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