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Intuit Mailchimp Launches Bloom Season 2 to Celebrate the Next Generation of Trailblazing LGBTQIA+ Entrepreneurs and Digital Marketers
The award-winning digital magazine from Mailchimp and Kin is back for its second edition, honoring LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs breaking new ground.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe award-winning digital magazine from Mailchimp and Kin is back for its second edition, honoring LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs breaking new ground.\n\n\n ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nToday, Intuit Mailchimp (Nasdaq: INTU) announces the second edition of Bloom Season, our community-centered digital magazine for underrepresented entrepreneurial communities, celebrating LGBTQIA+ identifying business owners, entrepreneurs, and advanced marketers.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230612005008/en/Bloom Season 2 illustrations by Simone Noronha & Paulina Almira\nLaunched in 2022, Bloom Season was brought to life by Mailchimp and the impact-focused creative company Kin to serve as a valuable resource for those given less visibility in business literature and fewer opportunities in the business world. It’s full of first-hand stories, resources, and actionable insights from people with lived experience starting businesses, enduring challenges, and refusing to give up.\n\n\nWhere the first iteration of Bloom Season celebrated the entrepreneurial spirit of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) individuals re-writing the small business playbook—Bloom Season 2 is focused on uplifting the voices within the LGBTQIA+ community, and continues to shine a light on the first-hand experiences, insights, and actionable possibilities for LGBTQIA+ identifying individuals in business.\n\n\nBloom Season 2 continues to grow the platform as a place for everyone, of any identity, to find useful guidance for helping turn their plans into positive momentum for their businesses. Focusing on the LGBTQIA+ community was a natural step for Season 2.\n\n\n\"We've woven together a powerful combination of voices and resources to celebrate this latest edition of Bloom Season,\" said Christina Humphrey, Senior Manager of Mailchimp Studios. \"With so many LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs breaking the status quo, we moved to craft a digital space that shines a spotlight on their stories and experiences.\"\n\n\nIt was essential for Bloom Season’s second edition to allow communities to tell their own stories, so Mailchimp and Kin worked to ensure all business owners, writers, illustrators and photographers assembled identify as LGBTQIA+. Over 50+ collaborators are featured in Bloom Season 2, includi...