Diversity and Inclusion Education Here are some tools to get you started… Prepared by Dr. Donnesha Blake Director of Diversity and Inclusion Embracing Vulnerability The key to doing any kind of diversity and inclusion work is learning how to embrace vulnerability. We cannot engage in difficult conversations without first allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. Brene Brown’s TEDTalk has a great message about courage, leadership and vulnerability. https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability?language=en Some of My Presuppositions: Ana Louis Keating We can’t do equity and inclusion work if we are debating the reality of social injustice or bias. Here’s a tool for establishing some ground rules for discussion. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-0-230-60498-8%2F1.pdf Implicit Bias Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ Writing for Change (my favorite source): Activities that allow you to increase your awareness of diversity, privilege, inclusion, and equity. http://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/writing_for_change1.pdf 5 Tips for Being an Ally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0 What is Privilege Video and Questions: https://www.buzzfeed.com/dayshavedewi/what-is-privilege Heterosexual Privilege: https://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/01/29-examples-of-heterosexual-privilege/ Intersectionality Intersectionality Pizza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgK3NFvGp58 Please cite Kimberlé Crenshaw when you talk about Intersectionality, Please! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o Tackling “Hot Button” Issues: Both web series use comedy as a tool to discuss hot button issues. MTV Decoded (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/user/mtvbraless/featured Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (Netflix) Tokenism, Disability Often times marginalized communities are tokenized in dominant communities and valorized because of their resilience in these spaces. Stella Young discusses why viewing people with disabilities as exceptional is a unhealthy way to be promote inclusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9Gg164Bsw The New Golden Rule We are taught to treat each other the way we want to be treated. This is all well and good, but it often makes us the “standard for other people’s experience.” Kim Katrin Milan offers us The New Golden Rule, or what other social justice educators call, “The Platinum Rule.” The Platinum rules says “treat others the way THEY want to be treated.” It allows for everyone to set the standard for how we interact with them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuKubIYRtwk .