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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.

6 Degrees Dictionary: A User's Guide to Inclusion

6 Degrees is a Canadian initiative that responds to rising nativism and exclusion through connection, artistic representation, online engagement and language. This co-created dictionary examines 12 words responsible for disagreement and misunderstanding, and recasts them to provoke and inspire.

6 Degrees Dictionary: A User's Guide to Inclusion - Videos

Three short videos on the 6 Degrees Dictionary. 6 Degrees is a Canadian initiative that responds to rising nativism and exclusion through connection, artistic representation, online engagement and language. The dictionary recasts 12 words typically responsible for disagreement and misunderstanding.

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 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.

A Note on Call-Out Culture

Influential article on call-out culture and its performative nature.

'Especially in online venues like Twitter and Facebook, calling someone out isn’t just a private interaction between two individuals: it’s a public performance where people can demonstrate their wit or how pure their politics are.'

A "Postdevelopment" zine

A short zine introducing "Postdevelopment," an approach responding to capitalism, Eurocentrism, Anthropocentrism and ongoing colonial legacies that calls for the end of development and proposes alternatives to it. Resolves definitions of post- and de- colonialism, and offers further reading.

Adjust Your View: Multicultural Arts Marketing Toolkit

Adjust Your View was intended to provide a framework for the development of multicultural audience strategies for the arts and cultural products. It also features leading Australian, US and European practices and case studies.

While the toolkit was written in 2009, it is still used across the arts for those wishing to develop multicultural audiences. This toolkit is divided into four sections - each part can used stand-alone or integrated together.

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.

Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture

A comprehensive yet simple guide that contextualises the race outcomes and leadership gaps in the US social sector, and offers approaches for building a 'Race Equity Culture' in your organisation. Identifies equity cycles, investments, levers, vocabularies and and tools.

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.

Convivial Thinking: Critical Decolonial Collaborative - Raï Blog

Short blog posts by members of a global, open group of scholars working on post- and decolonial approaches to development and beyond. ‘Conviviality,’ means equity, mutual respect for others and nature, and assuming joint responsibility for how we live, act, and engage.

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.

CrossRoads Radio Drama

A six-part radio play aimed at creating awareness on the ‘Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.’ Reveals how the popularity and accessibility of radio can reach beyond the masses to localised communities.

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.

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.

Dismantling Racism Works - Action Tools

A selection of action tools developed in the US including the role of change teams and caucuses in race equity work, giving feedback, race equity principles for taking action, and a race equity tool for organisations in developing explicit goals.

Dismantling Racism Works - Analysis Tools

A selection of analysis tools and definitions developed in the US including race equity stages, dynamics of denial and desistance - includng tactics of privilege and resistence, effective problem solving, how a movement is built, and the 'Barriers and Bridges' principles.

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.

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 Inclusion Learning from Diversity Council Australia

The Diversity Council Australia offers a suite of diversity and inclusion learning solutions including face to face and e-learning options.

Ethical Storytelling Podcasts

Selected podcasts from the Ethical Storytelling community on inclusive, human-centered storytelling and marketing in not-for-profit work. Featuring filmmakers, photographers and writers on their failures and lessons; as well as NGO practitioners and clients’ reflections on best practices and wrestling with power dynamics.

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

This piece of research provides a firsthand understanding of the diversity of Indigenous workers’ experiences in the workplace. Named 'Gari Yala' – which means ‘speak the truth’ in Wiradjuri language – it also provides 'ten truths' organisations must understand to improve workplace inclusion for Indigenous staff.

Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth

An introductory educational resource covering leading practices in how to support transgender and nonbinary people. Includes a helpful guide to what to do if you've made a mistake:
1. Listen - Stay in your discomfort and be willing to listen
2. Be Accountable - Remember, intention is not impact. The best apology is one that doesn’t make excuses or invalidate the other person’s feelings.
3. Commit to Do Better - Treat it as a learning experience.

How to achieve a diverse candidate pool with inclusive job ads

To attract diverse candidates, a well-phrased job ad is a must. From a linguist's perspective, Kyle Snyder identifies 6 different types of inclusion to consider, with practical tips for each.

How To Co-Create: Practical Lessons From The Field

Co-creation can be misused, and the various risks that come with co-creation are explored in this guide. Alongside this are tips for using ethical methods that can help to reap the benefits of shared power and authorship. This guide warns against generic solutions, stating that local, societal factors must always be taken into account.

Inclusive meetings’ nuts and bolts

A comprehensive infographic guide on how to host inclusive, multilingual meetings and events developed by a Quebec-based not-for-profit leading numerous projects on anti-oppression in community organisations.

Inclusive Recruitment Checklist

A refugee inclusivity checklist. This Checklist is designed to help recruiters and employers address the barriers that refugees face when restarting their careers in the UK. It includes information and tips on advertising, interviewing and onboarding.

Indigenous Recruitment Guide

A practical manual with best-practice principles to encourage the recruitment of Indigenous people into the Australian Public Service.

Topics covered in this toolkit include: attracting talent, cultural competency, utilising Indigenous assessors, cultural safety and consideration of language.

Informal Networks and Cultural Collaboration

In this short video, Natasha Ginwala emphasises the versatile benefits of reaching out to informal networks, especially for first-time art patrons. As case studies, she outlines two locally run art and culture events held in South Asia in the past.

Jumbunna: Strong Voices Stronger Communities: First Nations media employment and skills development

This report outlines a suggested employment and skills strategy for Australia’s First Nations Broadcasting and Media Sector. It promotes the need for skills development through regular traineeships, fellowships, exchanges, as well as a focus on getting cultural safety right.

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.

"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.

#PowerShifts Resources: Reclaiming Representation

The introductory post to a blog series by Oxfam’s ‘From Poverty to Power’ offering stories, projects and resources addressing blindspots in development work, and how to make power shifts happen. Features a special focus on other ways of telling stories and decolonising knowledge.

Race Equality Guide

The British Council's guide to good practice in racial equality. It identifies racism and the ways in which it manifests globally; addresses the ways in which race and ethnicity sit within the Council's approach to equality, diversity and inclusion, and sets out actions and case studies for change, such as challenging stereotypes, addressing under-representation and communicating inclusion.

Race Equity Glossary

US glossary of terms used in race and educations equity discourses, includes sources and filters by 'concepts' and 'processes and tools'.

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. It Stops With Me

Australian Human Rights Commission campaign and guide on how to conduct a conversation about racism, along with videos and other resources.

'The tips and conversation questions in this guide have been developed based on consideration of Australian and international research on anti-racism strategies, current Australian Human Rights Commission education resources and training guides, and human rights education principles and pedagogies.'

Racism. No Way: Glossary of terms

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

Register of Cultural Awareness Training Providers

A regularly updated directory of South Australia's cultural awareness training providers. All principal presenters are Indigenous.

The Anti-Racist Glossary

Glossary from a Scotland-based collective with definitions based on literature and also experiences.

The far-right and other speculative fictions for Europe

A filmed talk and timelapsed graphic illustration of two events on political imagination leading up to the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections. One focused on the ‘identitarian’ narratives of the far-right in Europe, the other centred on a speculative fiction workshop on European futures.

“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 Story of Race: Dianne Jones and Odette Kelada

Ballardong artist Dianne Jones, anglo and Egyptian writer Dr Odette Kelada and Worimi educator and storyteller Genevieve Grieves on the story of race, intercultural collaboration and race literacy.

Kelada: 'People really want to talk about race, they just need to know how to do it.'

Jones: 'We start with the fact that race is a story, and it’s a story that hasn’t been told in a way that’s clear and visible.'

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.

Voices: The building blocks of social change

A reflection by a South African community development leader on finding her voice, and becoming more conscious of the power that lies in voice. Explores how engaging with and supporting authentic voices can shift the quality of conversation, human engagement and changemaking.

What Does It Mean to Decolonize a Museum?

An article looking at different interpretations of what decolonizing a museum means. Challenging white supremacy, reflecting diversity, choice of language and the importance of having conversations about power and authority are discussed. The piece ends with a quote from Olga Viso: museums "must position themselves as learning communities, not impenetrable centers of self-validating authority.”

Who's Coming? Respectful Audience Surveying Toolkit

A toolkit for capturing audience data in a respectful and inclusive way.