Focus on Bias: 5.29.19

May 30, 2019

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. Podcast of the Week: The Racist Practice of Mispronouncing Names from KUOW – https://kuow.org/stories/a-rose-by-any-other-name-would-not-be-me. This podcast takes about 14 minutes to listen to. The podcast and articles this week delve into the very important point made by Uzoamaka Aduba’s mother – If you can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, then you can learn to say another person’s name correctly. Articles of the Week:

Is Mispronouncing My Name Racist? by Lucero Cantu – https://medium.com/social-nuisance/is-mispronouncing-my-name-racist-7a2aebd3cc59.
Have you mispronounced someone’s name? Here’s what to do next by Gerardo Ochoa – https://ideas.ted.com/have-you-mispronounced-someones-name-heres-what-to-do-next/.

Upcoming Trainings, Workshops, & Events (Newly added events are bolded)

Women Against Hate United By Love – https://www.overture.org/events/women-against-hate-reception (June 5)
OutReach’s Garden Party – https://www.facebook.com/events/420378018522866/ (June 6)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman – https://www.overture.org/events/lunart-festival-portrait-of-the-artist (June 7)
Systemic Bias Workshop – https://www.facebook.com/events/2196616410556944/ (June 7)
Drag Show & Fundraiser for Disability Pride – https://www.facebook.com/events/649848595452804/ (June 15)
2^nd Annual Eastside Juneteenth Soul Food Brunch – https://www.facebook.com/events/811629242569480/ (June 22)
UW–Madison Women & Leadership Symposium – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx (July 2)
Immigrant Journeys from South of the Border – https://www.overture.org/events/immigrant-journeys (July 14)
Thrive@UW–Madison: Creating Inclusive Work Environments – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Thrive@UW–Madison (July 18)
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)
Deep Diversity Institute – https://animaleadership.com/training/deep-diversity/ (August 20-22)
Thrive@UW–Madison: Creating Inclusive Work Environments – See https://talent.wisc.edu and click Thrive@UW–Madison (September 12)
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)
Brave Conversations – https://www.facebook.com/events/2128007503887936/ (November 8)
Overcoming Recruiting Bias – https://www.facebook.com/events/207624040119889/ (December 13)

If you know of any videos, podcasts, articles, events, etc. that would be perfect to include in these updates, please send them along to Erica Tisdale at erica.tisdale@wisc.edu.