Creative Equity Toolkit

Making Civic Space 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.

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.