16 April 2025, 07:53

By Dan Buckley

Katy Perry’s recent space flight made headlines around the world. Billed as inspirational, empowering and progressive. But for those with our feet on the ground, it wasn’t exactly a giant leap for womankind.

It’s the perfect example of how diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is being hijacked by celebrity culture and vanity PR.

We are living in a time where marginalised communities are fighting for access, opportunities and representation in several areas of their lives, so watching multi-multimillionaires, funded by a billionaire blast off into space for all of 10 minutes all in the name of ‘progress’ and ‘equality’ is not only tone deaf, but the opposite of ‘progressive’.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not denying individual........

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