Focus on Bias: 5.8.19
The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a weekly email focused on implicit bias with some videos to watch, articles to read, and other events around campus and the community that we encourage you to attend if your schedule allows.
Video of the Week: How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together? from the On Being Podcast – https://onbeing.org/programs/claudia-rankine-how-can-i-say-this-so-we-can-stay-in-this-car-together-jan2019/. This podcast is about 52 minutes long.
Article of the Week: It ‘makes you feel invisible’ by Rachel Hatzipanagos – https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/02/co-workers-keep-mixing-up-people-color-office-its-more-than-mistake. This article talks about an issue that’s commonplace at UW–Madison, colleagues mixing up the names of colleagues of color. It delves into microaggressions as well, which is a review for us, but the stories in the article are 100% worth reading.
Upcoming Trainings, Workshops, & Events
(Newly added events are bolded)
- Ballet Hispánico – https://www.overture.org/events/ballet-hispanico?fbclid=IwAR0IUEFI3RmTUqIukP_OEGN5_fki8MPa-4oyO_OLc1Fnfxd0fddrye_altU (May 9)
- Genealogy for a Radical Generation – See Attached Handout (May 11)
- Simon Balto Reads at Room of One’s Own – https://www.facebook.com/events/2180207332093793/ (May 13)
- Sally Nuamah Reads at Room of One’s Own – https://www.facebook.com/events/2188140101232069/ (May 16)
- Women Against Hate United By Love – https://www.overture.org/events/women-against-hate-reception (June 5)
- Systemic Bias Workshop – https://www.facebook.com/events/2196616410556944/ (June 7)
- Thrive@UW–Madison: Creating Inclusive Work Environments – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Thrive@UW–Madison (June 11)
- UW–Madison Women & Leadership Symposium – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx (July 2)
- Best Friday Ever: Rainbow Party – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/136085 (July 26)
- Restorative Justice Summer Workshop – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/restorative-justice/restorative-justice-workshops/ (August 5-8)
- Restorative Justice Summer Workshop – https://www.ywcamadison.org/blog/event/restorative-justice-second-summer-workshop-series/ (August 12-15)
- Facing Unconscious Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/343551876408960/ (September 13)
- Microagressions – https://www.facebook.com/events/2201679926782194/ (October 11)
- YWCA Racial Justice Summit – https://www.ywcamadison.org/what-were-doing/race-gender-equity/racial-justice-summit/(October 15 & 16)
- Leveraging Science to Benefit Marginalized Populations – http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/134600 (November 2)
- UW–Madison Diversity Forum – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx?CK=64689 (November 5 & 6)
- Courageous Conversations – https://www.facebook.com/events/2128007503887936/ (November 8)
- Overcoming Recruiting Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/207624040119889/ (December 13)