This page features social justice educational resources that I have curated. These resources center the voices of BIPOC folkx and are grounded in queer and trans liberation. They are meant to give you a decolonized and intersectional introduction to social justice education.
Understanding Systems of Oppression
Intersectionality
The Urgency of Intersectionality: 18 min video explanation of the term by Kimberlé Crenshaw who coined the term “intersectionality”
An Indigenous View on #BlackLivesMatter
Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change
Internalized Oppression
[TW: domestic violence, sexual violence] The Familiar Face of Genocide: Internalized Oppression among American Indians
How Systems of Oppression are Maintained Over Time
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: From Audre Lorde “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”
The Danger of a Single Story: 18 min video.
How Systems of Oppression Evolve Over Time
13th: Film directed by Ava DuVernay. 100 min running time. Available on Netflix
How Systems of Oppression Co-opt Social Movements
Funding America’s Nonprofits: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex’s Hold on Social Justice
Arundhati Roy: Foundations & NGOs Pacify Grassroots Movements: 17 min video
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
The White-Savior Industrial Complex
How Non-intersectional Social Movements Uphold Systems of Oppression
Many Famous Suffragists Were Actually Working to Advance White Supremacy
When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels
How Rainbow Capitalism Harms the Origins of What Pride Is About
Racism as a System of Oppression
Current Events and Analyses
A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-Rising: Without the proper context, it is impossible to understand the mushroom cloud of uprisings that are exploding across the country
Context and Conceptual Framing
Racial Equity Tools Glossary: Glossary for your reference
The Power of an Illusion – Race Timeline: The historical construction of race
The Power of an Illusion – Human Diversity: Race is not genetic
A Brief History of Whiteness: How one category became the norm and one ‘the other’
The Case for Reparations: option to listen to 1 hour and 28 min audio recording embedded in this article
Racial Hierarchies
For Asian Americans, Claiming American Identity Means Rejecting the Model Minority Myth
Capitalism as a System of Injustice
Racial Capitalism
Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown: Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security
The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise: Three days of violence forced African-American families to run for their lives and the aftereffects are still felt in the Illinois city today
35 Years After Vincent Chin’s Murder, How Has America Changed? On a Detroit summer night in 1982, a 27-year-old Chinese-American man named Vincent Chin went out for his bachelor party. But when he arrived at a club, he encountered two strangers who would become his killers.
Disaster Capitalism
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: Rebuilding is no longer the primary purpose of the reconstruction industry
How power profits from disaster: After a crisis, private contractors move in and suck up funding for work done badly, if at all
Colonialism, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, and the Practice of White Centering
Neoliberalism
From diabetes to displacement: How NAFTA disrupted Mexican agriculture, food, and health
White Centering
Decolonization
Towards the ‘Tangible Unknown’: Decolonization and the Indigenous Future
Learning from the Land: Indigenous Land Based Pedagogy and Decolonization
Anti-Oppression Work in Relationships and Communities
Examining Organizations and Communities
Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits
Anti-Racism Work in Conversations
A guide to starting anti-racist conversations with friends and family
A Template of Responses to Racist Comments
Letters for Black Lives Conversation Guide
Deeper Dive into Topics
Police, Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
Historical Context and Current Analyses
The History of Police in America and the First Force
Angela Davis: ‘We Knew the Role of the Police Was to Protect White Supremacy
How the School to Prison Pipeline REALLY Works
Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
Abolition
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police: Because reform won’t happen
Building a Police-Free Future: Presented by MPD150
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver
From a Native Trans Daughter: Roots of an Indigenous Abolitionist Imaginary: Carceral refusal, settler colonialism, re-routing the roots of an indigenous abolitionist imaginary
Transformative Justice
What is Transformative Justice: 10 min video
What Does Justice Look Like for Survivors?: 7 min video
How Shame Can Block Accountability: 4 min video
How to Support Harm Doers in Being Accountable: 15 min video
Critical Ethnic Studies
Asian American Studies
A Different Asian American Timeline
Native American & Indigenous Studies
Standing Rock Syllabus: this is a syllabus with a large collection of resources that puts the Dakota Access Pipeline in a broader historical, political, economic, and social context
Last updated on August 8, 2020 | If you have resources to suggest, please contact me.
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