Intersectionality

20 Actions for Reconciliation

20 actions from Reconciliation Movement Week 2021, which include action points and links to improve, enrich, and act as a reference point and resource for your organisational culture.

ReFrame Stamp Report on the Top Films of 2022

Annually, ReFrame (the gender equity coalition founded by the Sundance Institute and WIF), publishes a list in collaboration with IMDbPro that reveals which of the year’s top films earn the ReFrame Stamp: a mark of distinction for projects that demonstrate a commitment to gender-balanced hiring. This report found that Gender-Balanced Hiring in Film Plateaued in 2022.

3 Ways Structural Racism Could Be Hurting You at Work — and How to Navigate Them

Jodi-Ann Burey shares her experiences in a toxic workplace, defines the issues, and provides an invaluable list of how you can individualy enact personal change in your career and working experience in the context of racist treatment.

5 ways intersectionality affects diversity and inclusion at work

An article looking at the importance of considering intersectionality in diversity and inclusion efforts, and the negative impacts of not doing so.

7 ways your organisation can start to uproot systemic racism in the workplace

Organisations everywhere are discussing how to uproot systemic racism from the workplace. Where should you start? This article from the World Economic Forum offers up 7 practical steps for building a more diverse and inclusive organisation.

A guide for ensuring inclusion and equity in education

An UNESCO guide for policymakers to review how well equity and inclusion currently figure in existing education policies, determine actions to improve policies, and monitor progress. Features an assessment framework spanning concepts, policy statements, structures and systems, and practices.

A new anti-racism network is encouraging people in Australia to report racist attacks

An article around a survey from Victoria University, detailing the experiences of people who have experienced racism and haven't reported it. And as a call to action have set up an Australian-first, local anti-racism network.

All Culture is Local

Developed over five years, this Australian Research Council project offers 17 case studies and ‘recipes’ on Cultural Mapping and Data Collection and Cultural Planning. It focuses on council strategies in regional NSW, but many tips are transferable, eg Reuse existing data to save money; Use creative engagement for better results; work collaboratively; Include everyone, not just the ‘usual suspects'. Includes survey questions to use in local culture mapping.

AORTA - Anti-oppression Resource and Training Alliance - Resources

A selection of toolkits, handouts, guides, and other resources created by an American cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and solidarity economy through intersectional approaches to liberation. Covers transformative justice, racial justice, gender and anti-oppression among other topics.

Art, Whiteness, and Empire

Curator Dr. Kelli Morgan explores the themes of colonialism and whiteness in encyclopedic art museums. Morgan proposes a reinstallation framework that includes showcasing vital works that can anchor a reinstall about colonialism, highlighting portraits of actual colonizers, and using art to illustrate the history of global economy and colonialism.

Artistic Vibrancy

Subtitled 'A way for organisations to talk about artistic impact', this document outlines processes for gathering data and feedback on the artistic vibrancy of an organisation, along with case studies of arts organisations who've done this.

Suggested processes include alumni, artist and audience surveys, community consultation, benchmarking, guest artists interviews, peer review, annual strategic reviews, as well as numerical data such as artist and audience metrics (including items to track).

Artsource Strategic Plan: 2020-2024

Artsource define their mission to generate and set diversity and inclusion as one of their four core values as an organisation.

Australian Research Council Workplace Diversity Program

The Australian Research Council's tangible plan to meet their commitment of ensuring employees are working in a safe and harmonious atmosphere. It details current legislation around diversity and inclusion, and three strategies to achieve their goal.

Collaboration: the good, the bad and the ugly

Co-Directors of Aphids & Aphids discuss collaboration tools including explicit conversations around crediting, project expectations and the environments where the collaboration will take place (do you you meet in a cafe or a bar or the park?). Daily check-ins on the workloads and responsibilities of each collaborator, such as childcare responsibilities and energy levels are recommended, as well as allowing transparent access to administrative documents, and information on scheduling and budgets.

Counting culture infographic

What to ask when measuring cultural diversity in your organisation. Cultural diversity means having a mix of people from different cultural backgrounds – it can include differences in cultural/ethnic identity (how we identify ourselves and how others identify us), language, country of birth, religion, heritage/ancestry, national origin, and/or race, colour. Use this infographic as a starter guide when leading an organisation.

Courageous Citizens. How Culture Contributes to Social Change

This purchasable book affirms culture as a critical space to practice courage and perseverance towards societal reconfigurations. Aligned with the European funding program of the same name, it features those behind alternative stories, opening up space for questioning the fundamental nature of democracy.

Creative Majority: ‘What Works’ to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion in the creative sector.

A report with case studies from Def Jam, Raising Films and NBC Universal. It recommends adopting a policy framework of the 'five As': Ambition, Allyship, Accessibility, Adaptability, and Accountability, as a continuum for ongoing appraisal and change.

The report can be used as a handbook for cultural and creative workers frustrated at the pace of change, and has potential application for other sectors, including higher education.

Cultural Competence in Australia: A Guide

FECCA's guide to help organisations and individuals improve cultural competence and cultural safety, taking into account the varying needs of different groups that arise from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and exploring the landscape of training programs that can develop better systems, policies and processes in the workplace.

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

An article from Dr Tim Soutphommasane, Race Discrimination Commissioner, on his experiences of discrimination, and how and why leaders should be actioning our organisations to reach harmony and stability in the workplace.

Decolonizing the Internet 2018 Summary Report

A report on the first "Decolonizing the Internet" conference that brought together artists, technologists and practitioners from 28 countries to address challenges, visions and actions for better representation of diversity on the internet.

Design Studio for Social Intervention's "Cultural tactics"

A paper introducing inclusive cultural tactics that expose and amplify some of the complexities of culture in order to dissect challenging social problems. Including US case studies, it shows how cultural tactics can act as leverage points for social justice.

Diamond: The Third Cut

Report on the third year of Diamond, the world’s first industry-wide collaborative data collection system for monitoring diversity in broadcasting from the UK's Creative Diversity Network.

Diamond accumulated 30,000 responses looking into all forms of diversity. It found that Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation on-screen is 23% compared to the UK national figure of 14%. However, BAME people remain absent from many senior creative roles.

Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema

This toolkit is a practical guide for improving the experiences of POC (people of colour) audiences, staff and filmmakers – and other intersections including gender, sexuality, disability, income and class — to create lasting change for future generations and sustain your organisation in a meaningful way.

Diverse Futures: The Pathways Forward panel

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards hosts a Change Maker discussion, tabling case studies of organisations that apply community based models to inclusion as we work towards celebrating a more diverse future in the screen industry and beyond.

Diversity: A Critical Engagement

London-based filmmaker Nasheed Qamar Faruqi has created a resource where cultural professionals can find information about the history and associations of the most common words that we encounter in relation to racial and ethnic diversity.

Diversity and equal opportunities in television and radio

A UK TV and radio broadcast standards agency, Ofcom present their report for 2020 with key findings on the diversity of the broadcasters they regulate, including the UK’s major eight TV and radio organisations. Ofcom chart the huge impact of Covid-19 and 2020’s anti-racism protests on those broadcasters’ approach to increasing workforce diversity in the future, and outline how they as an organisation will support the industry to become more diverse.

Doing Research Inclusively

These Guidelines for Co-Producing Research with People with Disability, while focused on doing research with people with lived experience of disability, offer leading practice in inclusive research and collaboration. It offers six principles of co-production and strategies and tools for implementation.

Equal Pay Day

Did you know there is a Black Women's Equal Pay day, a Latina Equal Pay Day, and a Native Women's Equal Pay Day? Each represents how far into the next year it takes for women in intersectional groups to earn what men did in the previous year.

For True Pay Equity, Start With These 3 Areas

Pay audits alone are not enough to reduce pay gaps; merit pay increases, starting salaries and bonus structures must all be adjusted too.

Gari Yala: Centreing the experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians at work

Gari Yala, which means ‘speak the truth’ in the Wiradjuri language, is based on a survey 1,033 First Nations workers across Australia. The report reveals Indigenous employees continue to experience significant workplace racism and exclusion and that racism is impacting wellbeing and job satisfaction.

The report also provides 'ten truths' for organisations to improve workplace inclusion for Indigenous staff.

Horizontal Development: Equitable Development for City-Makers

A toolkit featuring interviews, case studies and activities to introduce "Horizontal Development," a new American urban development approach that centres the margins, highlights diversity, celebrates place and is accountable to those impacted by the racist and classist policies by cities.

How Can Arts Organizations Respond to What Communities Need Most?

The Fourth panel video in Wallace’s Arts Conversation Series examines ways in which "cultural organizations can adapt to be more responsive to diverse audiences’ needs.​​"

Features conversations between Anna Glass, DTH; Madeline Smith, Slover Linett; Nancy Yao Massbach, MOCA; and Josephine Ramirez, The Music Center.

How intersectionality can help storytellers

Pearl Tan and Priya A Roy give a useful primer on intersectionality and explain how intersectional approaches can make for better stories and a more diverse industry.

While it deals primarily with the screen industry, it breaks down the concept of intersectionality into its historical roots and explores structural, political, and representational intersectionality - and what this means.

How to Bring Your Cultural Identity to Work

Minority employees who share their race, ethnicity or nationality in meaningful ways with colleagues at work can lead to greater inclusivity and respect, according to research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The study found that rich cultural-identity expression that moves beyond superficial discussions to reveal parts of the inner self connected to one’s cultural identity fosters closeness and increases the majority group’s learning.

How to Build a Diverse and Inclusive Culture in the Workplace

A direct article which addresses the impacts of theMe Too movement,Black Lives Matter, the Harvey Weinstein scandal and other major events, and takes you straight to how to develop a healthy company culture, and bring diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

How to Do Pay Equity Analysis for Gender and Race

Many firms publish gender and ethnicity pay gap data; but for true diversity, workplaces need to make their audits intersectional. This resource from We All Count explains the basics of intersectional gender and racial pay equity audits.

'I have never stopped': Aileen Moreton-Robinson on 20 years of Talkin' Up to the White Woman

Interview with Goenpul author Aileen Moreton-Robinson on the re-release of her book that critiques feminist constructions of Indigenous women and Indigenous women's constructions of white feminism. The new edition looks at her book's initial reception. The reviews were “playing chicken at the intersection … [their] understanding of how power works limited to subjective and individual choices about being ‘good’ or ‘bad’.”

Invitation to the Party - Donna Walker-Khune Lecture Transcript

Donna Walker-Khune is America’s leading audience diversity expert. This is a public lecture delivered in Australia in 2003. As the author of 'Invitation to the Party', she reflects on what makes diverse audience development strategies work, gives examples of success stories, and advice on how to develop deep links with culturally diverse communities for the arts.

Key Equity Terms and Concepts

A useful glossary of equity terms and concepts.

Language Matters: Glossary of Terms

A comprehensive glossary of terms and phrases used in the diversity, equity and inclusion space, from an American group.

Language of Domination: Oppressive Meeting Dynamics

A list that outlines different ways that oppressive dynamics can play out in meetings and in organisations, with a focus on white/ male domination. Shared by a Quebec-based not-for-profit leading numerous projects on anti-oppression in community organisations.

Learning pattern: Centering Marginalised Knowledge

Developed by “Whose Knowledge?,” a global campaign recentering marginalised knowledges online, this "learning pattern" is designed for those who want to support marginalised communities add to Wikimedia projects. It offers critical questions, suggestions, and examples from experiences to illustrate lessons.

Liberate Philanthropy blog series

A blog series featuring stories by thought leaders contributing to justice transitions in philanthropy. Designed to inspire the US sector to re-imagine and practice a new kind of philanthropy that redistributes wealth, democratises power and shifts economic control to communities.

Make the connection: gender pay gap + race

“For every dollar earned by men, black women earn 63 cents, and 17% less than white women”

This article discusses how the gender pay gap hits women of color hardest.

Managing Cultural Diversity: Training Manual

This training document aims to enable small and medium enterprises to better understand cultural diversity and how to manage it effectively to improve workplace relationships, teamwork, productivity, market knowledge, community relationships, customer service and competitiveness.

Mind: Being antiracist in the workplace toolkit

This toolkit provides useful resources such as 'how to talk about racism at work', 'conversations about painful subjects', plus pieces covering intersectionality, 'how to avoid tokenising' and more.

Native Land Digital

Interactive mapping project covering the globe, showing Indigenous nations with a global address search that enables you to check the Indigenous country. Produced in Canada by Indigenous-led Native Land Digital.

The map includes a disclaimer 'This map does not represent or intend to represent official or legal boundaries of any Indigenous nations. To learn about definitive boundaries, contact the nations in question.'

No Straight Lines

An interactive online publication, guide and practical resource prepared by a world-leading participatory grantmaking and capacity-building fund to share recommendations and engage other INGOs and funders in dialogue on how to work with young feminist organisers for transformation.

Our routes: Women's node - an illustrated journey of women in community network

An illustrated reflection and guide on the experiences of women in male-dominated technological community networks. Documenting contributions from intimate womens’ circles alongside checklists and infograpthics, it addresses barriers and opportunities in education, partnership, and empowerment for building and leading community networks.

"Our Stories, Our Knowledges" resource series

A resource series for marginalised communities working on knowledge production, featuring stories, lessons, tools and tips. Part 1: Decolonising Our Stories and Knowledges, Part 2: Transformative Practices for Building Community Knowledges, Part 3: Adding Our Knowledge to Wikipedia, Part 4: How to Ally and Be a Good Guest.

Podcast: The Black Woman’s Guide to Philanthropy

A podcast focusing on black women in philanthropy. Features the co-founder of BlackHer - an online platform inspiring Black women changemakers, an impact investing expert, CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and co-Director of the Donors of Color Network.

Portes Ouvertes: Developing an Anti-Oppression Policy - Some things to keep in mind

A short guide and checklist for developing an anti-oppression policy in your community organisation. Developed by a Quebec-based anti-oppression leader, it covers assessing organisational strengths, identifying areas for improvement and where to focus trainings.

Power Moves: Your essential philanthropy assessment guide for equity and justice

A comprehensive self-assessment toolkit from the US (requiring sign-up), that helps funders determine how well you are building, sharing and wielding power and identify ways to transform your programs and operations for lasting, equitable impact and justice.

PWC Global Diversity & Inclusion Survey

A toolkit and survey you can take based on PwC’s multi-year, global, cross-industry survey. It explores what diversity and inclusion programs organisations have in place, and the impact they are having on employee experience.

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

Drawing from the Race to Lead survey of 4000+ across the American not-for-profit sector, this report engages an intersectional analysis to examine how women of colour encounter more systemic obstacles than white women and men of colour in the sector.

Racial Equity Tools Glossary

The Racial Equity Tools Glossary defines a wide range of terms used in work to achieve racial equity and racial justice at every level, including board and senior management in systems, organisations and communities.

Racism in the arts – reform or revolution?

An article discussing creating safe spaces, with a link to a panel where a group of creatives speak about institutionalised racism in the arts — and offer solutions.

Racism. No Way: Glossary of terms

A comprehensive glossary of diversity, equity and inclusion terms and phrases from an Australian group.

Re-Tool: Racial Equity in the Panel Process

A tool that provides effective strategies to intervene in ways that expand and empower collective work for racial equity in arts organisations, including sections on how to make your grant panel, application forms, recruitment process and board more racially diverse. It also includes a concise glossary of terms.

Reflecting Me: Global Representation On Screen

Explores perceptions of on-screen representation in Australia and 14 other countries. Based on interviews with over 15,000 people (1000 in Australia), the research reveals:

* 55% of respondents feel there needs to be more accurate representation of diverse identities, 47% feel there needs to be more types
* the media is more than twice as influential in shaping positive views toward marginalised groups than those closest to you

Reflecting Value, Episode 3: Whose safe spaces?

This podcast asks questions about barriers to access that are being created in the intersections between culture, health and research. It also present ideas on how to enable "a diverse range of people to fully participate in cultural programmes designed to address health and wellbeing needs?"

Resource Mobilization Toolkit

A comprehensive toolkit by a world-leading participatory grantmaking and capacity-building fund to support creative and practical thinking on resource mobilisation, particularly for girls, young women and trans youth. Can be used by organisations and individuals with different levels of skills and experience.

reWorked: The Diversity and Inclusion Podcast: Building an anti-racist and inclusive culture

EW Group’s Luke Robinson, sits down with Safina Nadeem and Yvonne Howard to look back on 2020 from the perspective of Covid-19 and anti-racism. They explore the changes to the world of work, with training going online, and the positive actions organisations are making in response to Black Lives Matter. Find out what organisations can do year-round to create a truly inclusive and anti-racist work culture for their Black, Asian and minority ethnic employees, customers, and stakeholders.

She's Price(d)less report: the economics of the gender pay gap

A report which found that Australia currently lacks the data required to measure the impact of intersectionality on pay - a very important measure. It also covers the impacts of gender discrimination, care responsibilities and occupational segregation on the nation's gender pay gap.

Social / Justice / Practice: Exploring the Role of Artists in Creating a More Just and Social Public

A short paper from “A Working Guide to the Landscape of Arts for Change,” it reveals a dynamic new third space in the US, where activists and artists create social interventions that can shift “small-c culture” and create public impact.

Telling truer stories of how we change the world

A short article on how the global Thousand Currents’ communications team makes sure their storytelling differs from mainstream stories about “poor” peoples, fulfilling their responsibility to start conversations about how to build collective power rooted in equity and liberation.

The Black Woman’s Guide to Philanthropy

An online guide designed to celebrate “Black women’s philanthropy,” and support the collective giving of Black women. Contextualises the American philanthropic context, offers definitions, shares tips for giving and other resources, outlines relevant issues and impact, and highlights inspirational leaders.

The Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion: Recommendations for Film Industry Professionals

A broad set of recommendations for film industry professionals. Includes sector-based guidance, solutions, examples of production companies and studios; agencies; festivals; film and drama schools.

The diversity and inclusion revolution: Eight powerful truths

An article with 8 proactive points and follow up advice around leadership — and actioning diversity and inclusion to turn aspirations into reality. While most business leaders now believe having a diverse and inclusive culture is critical to performance, they don't always know how to achieve that goal.

The diversity panel to end all diversity panels: It's Not A Race

Podcast: A live panel discussion with Beverley Wang, Paola Balla, Santilla Chingaipe and Benjamin Law on the double-edged sword of standing in for 'diversity' and where they would like to see the conversation progress.

The Essential Guide to Data-Driven DEI Transformation

The ebook shares 5 key shifts every DEI leader must make to succeed in 2023, and beyond. It's the perfect resource for anyone who wants to make a positive change.

You will learn:
How to embed DEI as a central business function
How to set more effective DEI goals that sustain progress
How to embed a data-driven approach into your DEI strategy
How to analyse your processes for bias with intersectional measurement

“Five S” Methodology for Designing Effective Social Interventions

A handout on US-based DS4SI’s “5 S methodology,” signifying Structure, System, Scale, Symbol and Sensation. It is shared as a first step towards designing effective social interventions by exploring and understanding the social, cultural and political terrain before beginning justice work.

The Gender Pay Gap Among Australian Artists: Some preliminary findings

In Australia in 2016/17, female artists earned 25% less than for males, and women earned 30% less from their creative work. These differentials were greater than the workforce gender pay gap of 16% at that time.

'We are therefore left with the conclusion that women artists across all artistic occupations are subject to forms of gender-related disadvantage that reflect discriminatory problems affecting women in society at large, and which may be more serious in the arts than in other areas.'

The Healing Solidarity Collective

A global online space to resource people in “healing solidarity.” Originally designed to further conversations emerging from the 2018 Healing Solidarity Conference, it’s a place to support one another through challenges, try new change-making approaches and create cultures of collective care.

The Hidden Value of Culture Makers

Multinational business strategists Accenture present their culture and equality research, with proactive approaches and actions to become successful in creating a culture of diversity in organisations and the workforce.

The Opportunity Agenda - Explore section

Resources section developed by The Opportunity Agenda, an American communication lab working to advance the impact of the social justice community. Covers how to shape narratives and messages, and ways for artists and culture makers to shift the public discourse.

The Path to Liberation- how to walk the talk of equity rather than white supremacy in philanthropy

This blog introduces the “Shake the Foundations” network in the US, which provides peer-to-peer exchange for funders and movement partners aiming to move capital into community-based, democratic re-granting and investment vehicles that can support the economic power and self-determination of communities of colour.

The problem with 'cripping up' and why casting disabled actors matters

Article examining 'cripping up': when able-bodied actors portray people with disability, such as Daniel Day-Lewis' role in 1990's 'My Left Foot'.

'what must it have been like to be one of those child actors on the set of My Left Foot? To not only watch a man act as though he too had cerebral palsy on screen, but to see him continue the charade once filming stopped.

How would they have felt, then, to later see him walking on stage to accept an award for how well he imitated them?'

The Visibility Report: Racial Representation on NYC Stages 2018-19

Fascinating and detailed report using representation data covering the theatre professions (including writers) in NYC. It covers representation of all cultural groups and includes numerous charts visualising the data.

Towards Equity: A Research Overview Of Diversity In Australia’s Arts And Cultural Sector

This Australia Council report presents information for eight focus groups or demographics in the Australian community: First Nations people; cultural and linguistic diversity; people with disability; gender; LGBTIQ+ people; Australians living in regional and remote locations; children and young people; and older people.

This useful resource brings together published and unpublished data and research on representation in the arts and cultural sector in Australia.

UK film sector failing to tackle systemic discrimination of BAME individuals

Summary article and link to research on the effectiveness of the British Film Industry Diversity Standards, launched in 2016, which require funded productions to meet diversity criteria, by Dr Clive Nwonka, from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

'Britain’s black and ethnic minority population remain excluded from key areas of the industry, with BAME representation still mostly located in secondary roles rather than as lead characters or in key production roles.'

Unseen. Unheard. Race and Disability - Black disabled experience in the UK's music industry

Black Lives in Music's 2021 survey revealed Black disabled people working in the UK music industry face pronounced challenges for opportunities and funding; 91% of survey respondents are dissatisfied with current levels of industry support.

The report includes calls to action to address this in the areas of Representation, Consultation and Commitment.

Vision, Values, and Voice: A Communications Toolkit

This toolkit provides guidance for developing values-based messages to inspire engagement, combat 'compassion fatigue', disrupt dominant narratives, and help shape public dialogue. Features big picture thinking for communications strategy, tips for and examples of tactics, and concrete messaging guidance in “opportunity flashcards” that link values with marketing strategies.

We need to develop a more nuanced understanding of cultural diversity

An article discussing how and why we need to measure diversity, and how growing a platform for this will shape future practices.

What to ask to measure cultural diversity in your organisation

Useful infographic which guides your organisation through what to ask in order to create cultural diversity in your workplace.

White, female, and high rates of mental illness: Australian publishing industry diversity survey

This article provides a snapshot summary of a recent survey done on the Australian publishing industry, following similar studies in the UK and USA.

Published on 31 August 2022, and featuring survey data from 989 respondents, the report contains demographic data on the makeup of the Australian publishing workforce. At time of publication, the industry has much work to do in reflecting Australia’s cultural and social diversity in its workforce.

Who Gets To Tell Australian Stories?

The ‘Who Gets To Tell Australian Stories?’ report reveals that Australian television news is far more white than the country it covers - and that there is an acute lack of 'cultural and linguistic diversity' in the media sector.

It is the first forensic examination of how Australian media treats culturally diversity at the workplace level - and spotlights the experiences and representation of culturally diverse television news and current affairs staff.

WOCA Member Profile: Baraka Sele, Independent Producer and Consultant

An interview with Baraka Sele, a highly qualified and experienced practitioner of community collaboration.

"I‘ll go to an arts center or community and say, “Wow, this is really interesting; you’re doing some interesting work. May I work with you?” The work is about asking—and most importantly, listening.. You make people feel like your venue is their house- because you went to their house, you broke bread with them, and now they come to break bread with you. That’s community engagement."

Women in Film and Television Australia: Resources

Women in Film and Television Australia provide a statement of intent and supplies a list of resources to encourage research, learning and understanding around anti-racist issues in the wake of of #blacklivesmatter, #aboriginallivesmatter and #sayhername.