Intersectionality

Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion - Biline articles

A selection of articles by staff at the Canadian Centre Diversity and Inclusion aiming to help employers, diversity and inclusion, human rights, equity, and human resources practitioners effectively address the full picture of diversity, equity and inclusion within the workplace.

Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies' Links

A link list by The Centre for Integrative Anti-racism Studies, Canada. Focused on enhancing research and teaching in equity, anti-racism praxis and alternative knowledges in education, links span community organisations, networks and alliances, race relations foundations and research groups.

Cite African Feminists: Some Readings

A reading list on African feminists to support researchers and practitioners recognise the politics of knowledge production, and challenge it through their citation practices. Useful for acquainting with decolonial research methods and queer politics from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Colorlines

A vast selection of articles by Colorlines, a news site featuring in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation on racial issues. Covers arts and culture, politics, gender and sexuality, criminal justice, economic justice, schools and youth, health, native affairs, among other topics.

Creative Time Summits

The Creative Time Summits are annual gatherings of artists, activists, and other thought leaders intervening in civic life, politics, and media. The programmes' videos, podcasts and publications feature notable ‘political art’ and ‘socially engaged art’ strategies in local and global contexts.

Cultural Competency for Social Justice

A short article introducing the ‘Cultural Competence for Social Justice (CCSJ) model.’ An accessible framework that adopts an intersectional perspective, it offers principles for living and working effectively in culturally diverse environments and enacting a commitment to social justice.

Decolonizing Community Care in Response to COVID-19

An article reflecting on the significance of decolonising from individualism and reconnecting with community care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Promotes drawing from Indigenous survival knowledges, and shares some traditional practices that to support people’s spirits in this time.

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Do

Ground-breaking paper which introduced the concept of intersectionality, which describes the way overlapping identities relate to systemic structures of oppression, in this case gender and race.

"for feminist theory and antiracist policy discourse to embrace the experiences and concerns of Black women, the entire framework that has been used as a basis for translating "women's experience" or "the Black experience" into concrete policy demands must be rethought and recast."

Democracy in Difference - Debating key terms of gender, sexuality, race and identity

Excellent resource exploring terms used in public debates about identity politics, political correctness, pronouns and what constitutes racism. An interdisciplinary guide to key concepts, influenced by decolonial methodologies, Marxism, feminism, queer theory and deconstruction. Features interactive links, illustrations, embedded videos and music.

Demos’ Racial Equity Transformation: Key Components, Process & Lessons

A report featuring lessons and sample materials from the Racial Equity Transformation (RET) of Dēmos, an American think-and-do tank leading justice and multiracial democracy work. Covering foundational analysis, organisational assessment, learning and implementation, it’s designed to assist organisations’ own RET.

Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations

A comprehensive guide addressing definitions of cultural competency, interventions for diverse populations, needs assessment, measurement considerations for diverse populations, collaboration through a diversity lens, workforce diversity, and budgeting for community-based organisations to provide more culturally competent service delivery programs in the US.

Dismantling Racism

Tools and resources from this organisation campaigning against racism, including tools for analysis, tools for action, links to resources and definitions of terms.

Diversity and Inclusion Blog

In this comprehensive blog you'll find a smorgasbord of resources, articles, guides, toolkits and reports on topics including diversity training, workplace diversity surveys, intersectionality, how to empower diverse teams and unconscious bias.

Do Your Diversity Efforts Reflect the Experiences of Women of Colour?

This Harvard Business Review article outlines the reasons why it's important to adopt an intersectional approach when working on workplace diversity, and offers practical tips on how to do this.

European Network Against Racism - Publications

A pan-European anti-racism network that advocates for racial equality and facilitates cooperation among civil society anti-racism actors in Europe. This comprehensive resource selection includes reports, toolkits, books, policy position statements, and thematic fact sheets relating to anti-racism and anti-discrimination.

Exposing the Invisible - The Kit

Exposing the Invisible promotes investigation as one of the most important forms of public engagement. This collaborative, self-learning kit makes investigative techniques and tools accessible to people and communities for collecting and verifying information, building evidence and understanding issues.

Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building

A monograph responding to how American community building can maintain or reinforce power inequities and racially-biased policies. Features definitions of community building, racism, internalised racism, white privilege; goals, process and strategies for interventions; and tips for evaluation and multi-racial partnerships.

Gloria Wekker on White Innocence

Video of a talk and discussion with educator and writer Gloria Wekker at Kaaitheater Brussels on the paradox of former colonising countries: racial aggression amidst the denial of racism. Presents ‘white innocence,’ cultural archive, and intersectional feminism concepts, referencing contemporary examples.

How can we belong together despite our differences?

An interview with the director of 'Ends of Worlds,' a science-fiction dance production presented at Kaaitheater Brussels on how “we are longer part of one interpretable world.” Explores Vandevelde’s approach to the contemporary impasse of trying to create universality through difference.

How to be many?

A brief discussion by the new artistic and general coordinators of Kaaitheater Brussels on how they can make “a many-voiced theatre.” Considers how to become inclusive within diversity, and how that translates into managerial practice and artistic choices?

Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Environmental Philanthropy - InDEEP Blog Series

Blogs from InDEEP, a professional development series that engages an American network of foundation staff committed to integrating racial equity and social justice through environmental philanthropy. Features guest posts by influential leaders on their lessons, case studies and resource guides.

Inclusiveness Index

The Inclusiveness Index identifies and captures the degree of group-based inclusion and marginality experienced across the world. Focusing on policy, laws, and institutions, it holistically examines group experience across gender, race/ethnicity, religion, disability, and sexual orientation dimensions. Features datasets, resources and reports.

Indig-curious: Who can play Aboriginal roles?

Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison investigates how non-Aboriginal artists might approach working with Aboriginal material, tackling questions like:

'Why do non-Aboriginal playwrights feel the need to write Aboriginal characters/stories? How can they feel confident they can write these characters sensitively, giving them authentic voices? How do they research their material? How do they ensure—indeed, do they feel the need to ensure—that the Aboriginal community is happy with their work?'

Intro to Story-based Strategy

A guide to a participatory approach that links movement building with narrative power analysis towards social change storytelling. Features story elements; breaking-down power for goals, audiences, targets and constituencies; understanding your audience; points of intervention; action logic; cracks and cross-checking.

Making Civic Space More Resilient

A report by leading INGOs that investigates ‘civic spaces’ where people exercise their rights to expression and assembly, freedom of association, accessing information and actively participating in society. Offers international case studies and best practice for restoring human dignity and increasing civic space.

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color

Paper by the lawyer and scholar who introduced the theory of intersectionality, which describes the way overlapping identities relate to systemic structures of oppression, in this case gender and race and their affect on violence against women of colour.

'Because of their intersectional identity as both women and people of color within discourses that are shaped to respond to one or the other, the interests and experiences of women of color are frequently marginalized within both.'

Media-based Organizing

A short article and video on ‘media-based organising’ by the renowned Detroit-based, international network Allied Media Projects. Outlines this community-based, collaborative process using media, art, or technology to address the roots of problems and advance holistic and creative justice solutions.

Minna Salami - A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

Video of a talk by Finnish-Nigerian author Minna Salami at Kaiitheater Brussels, discussing her book ‘Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone.’ Renowned for her blog, ‘MsAfropolitan,’ that combines feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an African perspective.

Moving the Race Conversation Forward

A two-part report that aims to reform the way people talk about race and racism in the USA. Outlines impediments to productive racial discourse, lessons from barrier-breaking interventions, considerations for selecting spokespersons and recommendations for framing expertise, skills-building and collaboration.

Race Forward - Tools

A resource selection provided by a leading American race equity body harnessing systemic analysis and innovation to help people and organisations take action toward racial equity. Includes guides, toolkits, templates, audio and video covering assessment, planning, reporting, programming and impact.

Redlining the Adjacent Possible: Youth and Communities of Color Face the (Not) New Future of (Not) Work

A short paper on how humanity’s ability to adapt to the #futureofwork can be shaped by young people and communities of colour. Building on POC’s existing resilience and hustle, it advocates for inclusion of their perspectives as co-researchers and co-experts.

Research and Recommendations for Racially Equitable Communications in Workforce Development

A report examining how workers – particularly workers of color – are framed in coverage of technology and health care jobs in American media. Provides the workforce development field with practical tips for racially equitable communications towards collective responsibility for employment and other economic outcomes.

Sara Ahmed - Closing the Door

Video of a talk by Sara Ahmed at Kaaitheater Brussels that approaches complaint of unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions as a form of diversity work, and the ordinary and often painstaking labour of trying to transform institutions so they are more accommodating.

Seeking Belongingness: Examining Equity, Capability, and Opportunity through Existing Index Schemes

A report for the ‘Equity Indices Research Project’ highlighting that existing metrics such as GDP do not address equity concerns. Offers context, a ‘belonging lens,’ equity indices case studies, and best practices towards a meta-index aligned with the Capabilities Approach to Human Development.

Sins Invalid

Disability justice-based performance project led by disabled people of colour. Performance work that explores sexuality and the disabled body, and political education workshops for community organisations.

Socio-Economic Diversity And Inclusion In The Arts

Comprehensive toolkit for all arts employers, with case studies, guidance and recommendations for best practice in advancing socio-economic diversity and social equality. Informed by learning from the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme which worked with 110 arts organisations for over a decade, and significant research produced by the Bridge Group.

The Alternative Reading List Project

A selection of reading lists designed to promote diversity across curricula and offer perspectives from marginalised or excluded topics in mainstream academia. Includes blogs, books, novels, poems, and articles covering colonialism/ post-colonialism, race and ethnicity, music, philosophy, among others.

The State of Change: An Analysis of Women and People of Color in the Philanthropic Sector

A report examining the American philanthropic sector’s demographics focusing on representation of women and people of colour. Features datasets and survey findings from more than 1000 grantmakers. Highlights rates of change and provides a discussion guide for foundation leaders, board members and staff.

Understanding Implicit Bias, and the Bias Cleanse

A short article that defines implicit bias, otherwise known as ‘implicit social cognition,’ outlining key characteristics, examples and barriers to opportunity. Features the ‘Bias Cleanse’ in partnership with MTV, a seven-day race and gender bias cleanse with daily tasks to de-bias oneself.

Video for Change Impact Toolkit

A modular toolkit for designing, strategising for and evaluating impact in social change. Designed for documentary or journalist video-makers, and nonprofit organisations that want to / are using video to engage their communities. Focuses on short form video, specifically for low budgets.