College of Architecture & Environmental Design at CalPoly Unlearning Series: What is Anti racist Design, Planning, and Building?, June 27, 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlS0mxyBuR0

Canadian Urbanism Institute: “A Call to Courage: An Open Letter to Canadian Urbanists” by Jay Pitter, June 10, 2020.

https://canurb.org/citytalk-news/a-call-to-courage-an-open-letter-to-canadian-urbanists/

Yasin, Amina, “Whose Streets? Black Streets” The Tyee, June 18, 2020.

Planners and urbanists, it’s time to reckon with the racism rampant in city building. Here are four actions to take.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/06/18/Whose-Streets-Black-Streets/

Practical Diversity: Inclusion from theory to practice by Dawn Bennett-Alexander

https://youtu.be/ExcDNly1DbI

The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) Steering Committee, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force are joining forces to learn about the general knowledge that design educators have about DEI-related topics, and how they are considered and integrated in design education.

This is a list or Anti-racism resources that they maintain:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tpAhZ8xzXiEngDE5egzpuFh3O82KZbZglpgvkNp7smo/edit

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine: “Addressing White Priviledge in a Session” by Dr. Pat Ogden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxft5_R8Gg

TedX talk: A Tale of Two Teachers by Melissa Crum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtinODaW78&list=WL&index=24&t=1s

NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine) presents, “Moving From Cultural Competence to Antiracism”

We’ve all heard about cultural competence in clinical practice. And while it’s important, it’s also not enough. So today, Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD will get into some first steps in becoming an antiracist practitioner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wJ_pvbC3SI

The Micropedia is a collaborative project built with the help of partnerships with community organizations.

Browse the Micropedia on Microagressions

What are microaggressions?

(def.) Microaggressions are everyday snubs and insults that marginalized groups face. They're often very subtle comments or actions that come from implicit bias and/or stereotypes. They might seem like a compliment (“You're beautiful for a transgender girl”), a harmless comment (“Where are you really from?”), or a subconscious action (crossing the street to avoid a racialized person).

https://www.themicropedia.org/

TEDx: Understanding My Privilege, by Susan E. Borrego.

Borrego speaks about the “invisible package of unearned benefits.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlRxqC0Sze4

Resources and Tools for Nonprofits produced by CommunityWise.

The CommunityWise Anti-Racist Organizational Change Resources and Tools for Nonprofits are accessible to the public with the Creative Commons Share Attribution license.

https://communitywise.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/AROC-Resources-and-Tools_web.pdf

Produced as a call to action for the Calgary City Council in 2016, the White Goose Flying Report reveals the story of Residential Schools and identifies The Calls to Action as part of Truth and Reconciliation. It was published by the City of Calgary Aboriginal Urban Affairs Committee.

https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/www/csps/cns/documents/cauac/white-goose-flying-calls-to-action-cauac.pdf

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. It offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large. It is hosted in collaboration by - MP Associates, CAPDm and World Trust Educational Services.

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/act/strategies/multicultural-competency

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators: Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces by Diana Ali, October 2017.

The term safe space has become part of recent controversy surrounding a larger debate regarding freedom of expression on college campuses. An exploration of the term’s use, however, shows that it has been appropriated by the media and campus administrators without a clear understanding of the nuanced context from which it has been drawn. Furthermore, a 2013 publication by Brian Arao and Kristi Clemens described how the term brave space may more aptly describe the practice of safely fostering challenging dialogue within the classroom environment.

This paper provides a thorough background on the history of safe spaces and brave spaces within the contexts of movement- building, academic theory, student support services, and the classroom; the paper then uses campus-based research and case studies to exemplify the kinds of safe and brave spaces that actually work. Finally, this paper provides recommendations for student affairs professionals to better understand safe and brave spaces and challenges these individuals and their campuses to prioritize the use of these spaces to ensure educational access and success for the entire campus community.

https://www.naspa.org/images/uploads/main/Policy_and_Practice_No_2_Safe_Brave_Spaces.pdf

Social Change Ecosystem Map

Building Movement Project produced a tool called: Social Change Ecosystem Map.

Attribution: Deepa Iyer, Building Movement Project. SM, © 2018 Deepa Iyer. All rights reserved. All prior licenses revoked. October 2020 Version.

This is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align and get in right relationship with social change values, individual roles, and the broader ecosystem.

https://buildingmovement.org/tools/social-change-ecosystem-map/

“Design Physical and Digital Space for Inclusion”, Harvard Business Review, 11 August, 2021.

Authors: Eric M. Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick R. Osborne, and L. Taylor Phillips

Summary: “Often, strategies around making organizations more anti-racist focus on changing hearts and minds. Sometimes this isn’t enough, however, and can result in backlash or increased self-segregation among white employees. In these situations, leaders should consider using design principles to create the spaces in which employees of different races can interact more frequently. Specifically, they should focus on creating casual intergroup encounters in both digital and physical spaces.”

https://hbr.org/2021/08/design-physical-and-digital-spaces-to-foster-inclusion?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=dailyalert_notactsubs&deliveryName=DM145428

Plan Canada: “Pandemic Patios and ‘flat white’ urbnaism” by Amina Yasin and Daniella Fergusson, winter 2020.

Summary: “By compounding existing crises, the COVID-19 pandemic has further marginalized already vulnerable members of our communities. The ease and speed of “pandemic patios” implementation contrasts harshly with the lack of meaningful action in food, housing, transportation, and equitable infrastructure projects. Additionally, pandemic policing continues the historic practice of deciding who can be in public. This disconnect between aesthetic improvements, enforcement, and systems change is emblematic of White Urbanism, a “flat white” power and legal structure implemented through restrictive covenants, redlining, planning euphemisms, land theft, architecture, bylaws and their enforcement, and choices that smooth over structural issues in favour of aesthetic improvements to the status quo.”

https://cip-icu.ca/getmedia/24aff5ee-8307-4d97-bf47-deb535afde81/Pandemic_Patios_PlanCanada_Winter2020.aspx

TedX talk: A Tale of Two Teachers by Melissa Crum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgtinODaW78&list=WL&index=24&t=1s

The Right to Be is a non-profit originally started by seven young people sharing their experiences of harassment that produces Bystander Intervention Trainings to teach people to stop harassment.

https://righttobe.org/bystander-intervention-training/

From the Design Can Manifesto…

“An industry that fails to reflect the people it serves will quickly become irrelevant…We’re calling on designers, curators, editors, writers, filmmakers, event organisers – everyone who influences the design industry – to be allies.”

Design Can’s resources feature things to read, listen to and attend.

https://design-can.com/resources