I’m at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, where about 30 Amazon employees are staging a die-in during Amazon’s Pride Flag raising ceremony in protest of the company’s continued sale of what they say are transphobic books.
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The employees are affiliated with the internal employee activist group No Hate at Amazon, which profiled in March.
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What appears to be Amazon security attempted to halt the protest, which is taking place in a public breezeway between two Amazon buildings. Protestors refused to leave.
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Employees have publicly called out the sale of what they say are transphobic books in the past. At least four employees have resigned over the issue, including Selene Xenia, who I profiled this spring.
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Amazon has come under fire for what some LGBTQA+ activists say are the company’s attempts to “rainbow-wash” its reputation. Seattle Pride this year barred Amazon from sponsoring its annual parade, per
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The hosts of the flag-raising event, leaders of Amazon’s company-sponsored LGBTQA+ affinity group, Glamazon, several times attempted to quell the protest before announcing they would cancel the flag-raising ceremony.
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Protesting Amazon's sale of transphobic content is "a risk that a lot of us are willing to take because we can't continue to work for this company and turn a morally blind eye to its policies," one longtime Amazon employee at the protest told me.
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