Raising Awareness

Privilege

Videos

• Why does privilege make people so angry? and reflection sheet
• Unpacking the invisible knapsack
• Sometimes you’re a caterpillar
  

Documents

• Patterns of power (tools for change)
• White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack
• Power wheel and tips sheet

• Why teachers’ good intentions don’t matter when it comes to "equity" in the classroom

Posters

• Privilege Power wheel

Intersectionality

Videos

• Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality? 

Articles

• Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, more than two decades later 
  

Websites

• i Dream Library—Intersectional BIPOC 2SLGBTQQIA+ literature K–12

Implicit bias

Videos

• Unconscious bias (trailer)—Learning heroes
• What does my headscarf mean to you?
  

Identify your areas of implicit bias with the Harvard Implicit Association Tests

• Independent Lens, American denial, Implicit bias test, PBS
• Full set of tests
• Tests customized for Canada

Articles

• The insidiousness of unconscious bias in schools
• Our Biased Brains
• Evolution of Prejudice
  
• Overcoming implicit bias 
  

Documents

• Nine strategies for overcoming implicit bias

Microaggressions

Videos

• How microaggressions are like mosquito bites: Same difference
• If microaggressions happened to white people
• The power of microaffirmations

Articles

• Accentuate the positive: The transformative power of small encouragements and welcoming interactions

Documents

• Part 1 : Defining Microaggressions and Microaffirmations
• Part 2: Recognizing and responding to Microaggressions
• Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages they Send and tips sheet
• Why overlook micro-affirmations?

White privilege

Articles

• ‘I don’t see race’ and other white lies

White fragility

Articles

• Academic Robin DiAngelo: We have to stop thinking about racism as someone who says the N-word
  
• A sociologist examines the “white fragility” that prevents white Americans from confronting racism
  

Documents

• Beacon Press quiz – How to tell if you have white fragility

Videos

• Why I’m not racist is only half the story
  

The impact of language

Videos

• To this day, inspiring Shane Koyczan poem

Articles

• When is speech violence
  

Posters  

• Watch your Language! poster and tip sheet
• When is speech violence?
• To this day, inspiring Shane Koyczan poem  
• Watch your Language! poster and tips sheet

Being an ally

Videos

• 5 Tips for being an ally and tips
• Being an ALLY: A steps towards decolonization
• Getting called out: How to apologize

Documents

• My Ally Bill of Responsibilities:  Dr. Lynn Gehl
  
• A guide to allyship
  
• To equalize power among us (Tools for Change)
  
• Becoming an ally and practicing allyship

Posters

• Becoming an ally
• Actions of allyship
  

Equity-seeking groups

Documents

• Staircase of oppression to equality

BC youth share their experience

• Youth Panel Discussion at BCTF Provincial Social Justice Conference

Short videos and articles on equity-seeking groups

Aboriginal and indigenous

• How to talk about Indigenous people
• Wab Kinew on the Stereotypes about Natives in Canada
  
• Introducing and disrupting "the perfect stranger"
  
• Un-welcome in my Dakota Home
• Aboriginal women: resistance, reliance and revitalization, Patti Doyle Bedwell TedX
• Native Hawaiian woman responds to racist caller

• Working the 12 Steps of Decolonization in Canada

Visible minorities

• 10 ways well-meaning teachers bring racism into our schools
• Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story
• Debunking the most common myths white people tell about racism
  
• Reverse Racism
• I don’t see race
  
• Journalist's experience with carding in Vancouver
  
• Stop, think, respect
  
• Are you racist? No isn't good enough
  
• 5 things you should know about racism
• 10 excuses used to deny racism
• Why colour blindness will NOT end racism
• “Reverse Racism” is a lie—Here’s why
• Just try saying my name right
  

Gender based

• Responding to Sexual Harassment in Schools  
• How to Talk to Men about Feminism (CBC Radio Out in the Open podcast)
  
• That's Harassment videos
  
• Miss Representation trailer
• Killing us Softly 4 trailer
  
• Emma Watson at the HeForShe Campaign 2014—Official UN Video  
• Always #LikeAGirl, YouTube
• The Mask You Live in (trailer)
• #IStandUp Against the Harm Caused by the Objectification of Women in Advertising
• The Trans-Canada Experience—Episode 1 Cade
• We all need a safe place to pee
• Handsome and majestic
  

Sexual minorities

• The Riddle
  
• It Gets Better Canada.

Class based

• We Can't Afford Poverty videos sponsored by BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
  
• Poverty Myth Busters by BC Poverty Reduction Coalition 

Persons with disabilities

• 4 Ways to be an Ally to People with Invisible Disabilities
  
• 6 Forms of Ableism we Need to Retire Immediately
  
• 10 Tips to Tackle Disablist Language-Based Bullying in School (National Education Union)
• 10 Ways to Avoid Everyday Ableism
• 15 Common Phrases that are Way More Ableist than You May Realize
  
• Casual Ableist Language
  
• Disability Sensitivity Training Video
• Doing Social Justice: 10 Reasons to Give Up Ableist Language
  
• Online resources for Persons with Disabilities
• Unboxing Ableism
• Why we Need to Stop Comparing Mental Illness to Physical Illness