Kiku Gross

BIO

Kiku Gross is a writer, punk rocker, and general nuisance from the Central Valley of California. If she’s being totally honest, she’s made a name for herself in the advertising industry by yelling on the internet, and she’s kind of proud of it. You may recognize her from the 3% VOICES Blog, but you probably recognize her from Twitter. When she’s not busy writing words, she enjoys drinking coffee, listening to loud music, and taking naps.

Contributed Content

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But What About the Boys? Meet the Guys Who Started a Feminist Club at their All Male High School

Two teenage boys from an all-boys Manhattan private school decide they’re going to start a feminist club. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke.

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The 2019 Emerging Creative Track: Part 1

This wasn’t your typical inspirational bullshit. This was the 3% Conference. And here, people mean business. 

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The Line Between “Thought Provoking” at Cannes & So Terrible It Belongs in a Trash Can

The difference between a provocative award-winning ad, and a controversial, damaging one is a little perspective, a little empathy, and a lot of willingness to learn and try again.

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Still Here, Still Queer: A Year Later and Where Are We?

Nobody wants to see me be “too Asian,” or “too gay,” or “too much." Ironically, I’ve often been shown off because I am queer, and because I am Asian.

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PechaKucha: The Long Take on Short Speeches

Twenty slides, twenty seconds each slide, totaling at six-minutes and forty seconds. Flat. The presentation goes on whether you want it to or not. It’s brutally short. It’s kind of like life.

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GrADitude: The Panel that Changed my Career

It’s about surviving something, and building that something into something better so someone else has it just a little bit easier.

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Our Screwed up World & What to Do About It: An (Un)Expected Lecture from a White Man

Upon reading that a middle-aged white man was to be a keynote speaker at The 3% Conference, with a speech about how he knew how to save the world no less, I had my doubts.

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Give it to Me Straight: Trying to Find Myself in Advertising

Kiku Gross writes about the importance of authentic LGBTQ+ representation in advertising.