Articles

Breaking the Chain: Healing Racial Trauma in the Body
Kristen Moe, Medium, May 2020

The Rules of the Diversity and Inclusion Racket
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Riveter, September 2019

Would you ever Give Up Your Whiteness?
Zaron Burnett III, Human Parts, Medium, October 2019

The “emotional tax” Canadian people of colour carry at work
Tara Deschamps, The Toronto Star, July 2019

Owning my Whiteness
Kevin Walker, President & CEO, Northwest Area Foundation (USA)

White Supremacy Culture
- taken from Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups, by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, ChangeWork, 2001.

Driven to distraction by racism, we mourn the people we could be
Samra Habib, The Globe and Mail, July 2019

7 Things you can Do to Recruit Women of Color
Catalyst: Workplaces that Work for Women, June 2019

Top 10 Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace
Kristina Martic, TalentLyft, December 2018

Embarrassed? Uncomfortable? Defensive? Get over it, start talking about race, 
 Denise Balkissoon September 5th, 2016, The Globe and Mail

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh, 1988

Podcasts & Websites

Native-Land.ca

Know what traditional Indigenous territory you are on. Native Land Digital is a Canadian and Indigenous-led, non-profit organization and crowd-sourced, interactive website mapping traditional territories of Indigenous people, treaties and language.

Chromatic Elephant Podcast
Hosts Resmaa Menakem (Author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies,) and Tyler Reitzner (Trauma-Informed Advocate & Trauma-Responsive Consultant) use this space to drive real action and ensure we are “putting in our reps”. Change comes from building a tolerance to being uncomfortable and acting on what it takes to heal. We believe that through authentic connection to self, community and culture we can do the work that it takes to heal and stop the brutality of white body supremacy.

The Selfish Activitist - Tada Hozumi - Cultural Somatics

Cultural somatics speaks to the fact that cultures are in fact bodies that emerge from networks of relationships. Within this model, oppressions such as white supremacy and heterosexism are understood to be expressions of trauma in cultural somas (bodies).

Harvard Implicit Associations Tests
Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet. Project Implicit was founded in 1998 by three scientists – Tony Greenwald (University of Washington), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Brian Nosek (University of Virginia).

Intersectionality Matters!
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

The Colour Code - If there’s one thing Canadians avoid, it’s talking about race. This podcast is here to change that. Launched in 2016, by The Globe and Mail, hosts Denise Balkissoon and Hannah Sung facilitate brave conversations about the state of race in Canada. A 9-podcast series that will help you to delve deeper into the issues of Race in Canada.

The Circle Way
A facilitation process as much as it can be embraced as a life philopsophy. Circle is democratic space where we can look each other in the eye, lean in and listen, and include all voices with a sense of equality. The practice of circle often leads to more creative options, wiser decisions, clearer actions.  

Videos

But Where are you Really From? Resolving Unconscious Bias –  Dr. Rehman Y. Abdulrehman
TEDX Winnipeg, 2019
Having unconscious bias doesn’t necessarily make you a racist, but being complacent in our thinking and not addressing such bias can lead to discrimination and micro-aggressions, dividing instead of uniting a population. Meeting institutionalized racism and unconscious bias with increased mindfulness helps shift our thinking from US vs. THEM to WE, which is necessary in diverse societies.

The Color of Fear - Documentary - Lee Mun Wah
(1994)

Director Lee Mun Wah Stir-fry productions Eight American men from different ethnicities have a honest dialogue about their experience and thoughts on Racism, Privilege and White Supremacy. This documentary was filmed 26 years ago and disturbingly it's still very relevant today. Three decades have passed and not much has changed.

 How to get serious about Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace – Janet Stovall
TED@UPS, 2018

Imagine a workplace where people of all colors and races are able to climb every rung of the corporate ladder -- and where the lessons we learn about diversity at work actually transform the things we do, think and say outside the office. How do we get there? In this candid talk, inclusion advocate Janet Stovall shares a three-part action plan for creating workplaces where people feel safe and expected to be their unassimilated, authentic selves.

How Diversity makes teams more Innovative – Rocio Lorenzo
TED@BCG, 2017

Are diverse companies really more innovative? Rocío Lorenzo and her team surveyed 171 companies to find out -- and the answer was a clear yes. In a talk that will help you build a better, more robust company, Lorenzo dives into the data and explains how your company can start producing fresher, more creative ideas by treating diversity as a competitive advantage.

The Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberlé Crenshaw
TEDWomen, 2016

How to Overcome our Biases? Walk boldly toward them – Verna Myers
TedXBeaconStreet, 2014

Diversity advocate Verna Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

Books & Publications