My answer to the “keep it to cars” is that cars are political no matter what. Why do we need this, keep it to cars-which I’m sure you get all the time as a woman in the car industry. It’s hard, as you saw, when things of ours get shared around the bigger groups of car people, there’s a lot of folks who see this as a political thing or a thing for attention. I was a freshman in college when I started with them, and my personal experience has been, if I’m willing to just be who I am and to be that person who’s a little more vocal than most and who’s also very much the one that makes space to take questions and stand up for people that are quieter and encourage those people who don’t necessarily get it to ask questions instead of ruminating in their own thoughts. JT: It’s tough, because people have to want that. How do you make sense of your experience through the lens of who you identify as? For those of us who feel more comfortable being those first few people on the dance floor, we’re doing it.ĮB: You mentioned in your email the identity factor that a lot of people don’t understand-the way we identify that intersects with car culture. The analogy that I love is that, when you go to a wedding, someone has to be the first one on the dance floor, and then other people will join you. The whole goal is, if you see someone who looks like you or is like you doing the things you want to do, you’ll be more encouraged to do it as who you are. The past two years in particular, 2019 and this year, we’ve worked pretty hard to grow this as more of a community thing, to get other people to share what they’re up to as well. Maybe we should try to make this more of a community thing and not only share our stories but get the stories of other people. It initially started as a place for us to chronicle our own adventures, and then we say, hey, we’re running into people who don’t feel that they can be their whole, out selves at these events or in the car world as a whole. We basically realized, we’re both going to these events with different reasons than the National Auto Sport Associations, and we’re being welcoming and embraced for who we are, and that’s really awesome.
Both of us have been out, gray men since we were 18 or 19 years old, and we have both been involved in amateur motorsport that whole time. Jake Thiewes: My friend Tyler and I started this back in 2017. Jake Thiewes is a co-founder of Out Motorsports, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and creating a home for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies within the motorsport world.Įlizabeth Blackstock: Tell me a little bit about Out Motorsports-what inspired its founding, how it’s grown over the past couple years.
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