Focus on Bias: 07.2020
The Office of Student Financial Aid distributes a monthly 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.
Resource of the Month: If You’re New to Abolition: Study Group Guide: https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/?fbclid=IwAR0HhU8l6SjdPFm4F004mGdFbPdheBbf2KznLq5EovQdu9fNefBfCyOFXGo. This guide provides six weeks’ worth of resources that teach about abolitionism and what more you can do in your community. It includes articles, videos, and recordings. If you are interested in learning more about abolitionism, this is a great resource to do so.
Videos of the Month:
- Creating a More Equitable Society is in White Americans’ Self Interest: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCUOX3NMd4U&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv_9pZFiV-sbalxvXW2UBX2x&index=6&t=0s (12.5 mins)
- Just Belonging: Finding the Courage to Interrupt Bias TEDTalk by Kori Carew – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIf43L6hNkM (19 mins)
- Screaming in the Silence: How to be an Ally, Not a Savior TEDTalk by Graciela Mohamedi – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2qAbp-t_FY (15 mins)
- Native Mascots: Really, Still?: An All My Relations Podcast – https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/episode/3313e307/ep-3-native-mascots-really-still (1 hour, 15 mins)
- Tiffany Jewell on Anti-Bias Anti-Racist Education: A Good Ancestor Podcast – http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast/ep030-tiffany-jewell (1 hour, 35 mins)
- A Conversation Among White People About Solving the Racial Divide – https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wGQ69iRTQGGopocwr93_4w (July 29th @ 7pm)
- Brave Conversations – https://stepupforequity.com/eventbrite-event/brave-conversations-5/ (July 31st @ 8:30am)
- Witnessing Whiteness Trainings – https://www.oregonpubliclibrary.org/adults/upcoming-events/witness-evening (Tuesdays in August thru October)
- Black Male Suffrage in Early Wisconsin – https://www.facebook.com/events/1466222690232612/ (August 6th @ 6:30pm)
- College Behind Bars Film & Panel Discussion – https://www.facebook.com/events/269199041029608/ (August 7th @ 6:30pm)
- Another Evening with James Baldwin – https://www.facebook.com/events/619199532358979/ (August 13th @ 8pm)
- Magic Pride Festival – https://www.facebook.com/events/3312460435447593/ (August 16th @ 1pm)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton – https://www.facebook.com/events/1448205228900483/ (August 19th @ 6:30pm)
- Nehemiah Re-Entry Conference: The Impact of Incarceration on the Family – https://nehemiah.org/reentryconference/?fbclid=IwAR30cB_Go4wIxXVaMKHrFCqRw5iCuU7_DyDemLdiflxx1lCR-y153gcoFvU (September 9th & 10th)
- Witnessing Whiteness Trainings – https://healandharmonize.com/workshops/ (Mondays @ 6pm in September thru November)
- Stepping in with Care & Confidence – https://www.talent.wisc.edu/Catalog/Default.aspx?tabid=29&SeriesKey=1549 (October 23rd as well as other dates)