![]() I used to suffer from imposter syndrome, but at 36, I refuse to internalize misguided, patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be. My employment is not and was not a fluke or a slip through the cracks. ![]() I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise. I am a woman of color, I am a mom, I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. The most notorious of these ads included a Latina woman who begins her monologue, “When I was seventeen, I quoted Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘How It Feels to Be Colored Me.’” The video continues, It was not until May, however, when a series of recruitment ads titled “Humans of the CIA” appeared, that the political undertones of the CIA’s rebranding would be made explicit and all hell would break loose. ![]() The agency’s twin adoption of liberal talking points and Bay-Area-inspired professional-class aesthetics suggested that the two might be linked, and-as we shall see-they are. The models used on its website were conventionally attractive and ethnically ambiguous twenty-somethings, the faces you might see on a college brochure. In January 2021, shortly after Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, the Central Intelligence Agency announced a “digital facelift.” The agency’s goal was to attract millennial and Gen Z applicants who might be skeptical of the organization’s mission and to “increase racial, cultural, disability, sexual orientation, and gender diversity so that its workforce is ‘reflective of America.’” 1 The rebrand involved a new minimalist logo, reminiscent of the type of design typically used to promote electronic music (as some online were quick to point out).
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