Creative Equity Toolkit

Australia Council for the Arts "Re-imagine: What next?" report

Findings from a 2020 national consultation of Australia’s arts and cultural sector - one of the major focuses on this report is the centring of equity.

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.

Being Antiracist

Toolkit and analysis of Anti-Racism.

'Reflect on choices you make in your daily life (i.e., who you build relationships with, what media you follow, where you shop). How do these choices reflect being antiracist?'

Bilingual Story Time with Libraries ACT

Bilingual Story Time, runs in three branches with songs, stories and language resources, benefitting kids raised in multilingual homes and those who only speak English.

Asefeh Charandabi suggests, “Start running Bilingual Story Time in a commonly spoken language, such as Mandarin and Hindi, to gauge interest. Next, look into bilingual organisations (e.g. ACT Bilingual Education Alias, ACT Community Language Schools) for help. Start sourcing books early, also.”

Black Face

Overview of the history and contemporary expression of black face from the UK and the US.

'Popular contemporary ways of displaying blackface include: darkening your skin and especially your face; wearing clothes that you assume all black people wear and in a fashion that is mocking (think ‘ghetto’ or ‘thug’); throwing up obscure gang signs, or what you assume are gang signs, in order to ‘act black’; and depicting blackness in all its complexities as a caricature.'