ALT Consuming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Unsettled Times This session explores the interplay between consumption and equity in the current social and political moment. We invite submissions that examine organizational efforts to promote, support, and maintain their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion in a context of recent mobilizing efforts like Black Lives Matter and Me Too. During the pandemic, an increasing number of brands joined a so-called “inclusion revolution” but how these efforts have connected with consumers during protracted periods of isolation remains in question. Importantly, the session seeks to uncover how pandemic-related shifts to the consumption landscape may have deepened racialized, classed, gendered, and ableist inequities (e.g., food and housing insecurity, exploitation of gig workers, environmental crisis, beauty and appearance, media). We also invite submissions exploring how consumers have responded and even mobilized directly and indirectly

ALT Description of the Consumers and Consumption session at the ASA meeting 2023