Raising Awareness

Privilege

• Videos
  • Why does privilege make people so angry? and reflection sheet
  • Unpacking the invisible knapsack  
• Documents
  • Patterns of power (tools for change)
    
  • White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack
  • Power wheel, poster and tips sheet

Implicit bias

• Videos
  • Unconscious bias (trailer)—Learning heroes
• 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
• Our Biased Brains
• Evolution of Prejudice
  
  • Nine strategies for overcoming implicit bias
  • Overcoming implicit bias

Microaggressions

• Videos
  • How microaggressions are like mosquito bites: Same difference
  • If microaggressions happened to white people
• Documents
  • Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages they Send and tips sheet
  • Why overlook micro-affirmations?  

The impact of language

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.  

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