How To Be A D&I Ally

Books

Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race. New York: Seal Press, 2018.

McKenzie, Mia. Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender. Oakland: BGD Press, Inc., 2014.

Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Anti-Racist. New York: One World, 2019.

Galeano, Eduardo. Open veins of Latin America. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.

Myers, Kevin, and Wise, Tim. White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, 2008.

Wu, Frank, Yellow: Race in American Beyond Black and White. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Tenth Anniversary Edition. New York: New Press, 2010.

Bayoumi, Moustafa. How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America. New York: Penguin Books, 2008.

Cogan, Jeanine C., and Stevenson, Michael R.. Everyday Activism: A Handbook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People and Their Allies. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Hall, David M.. Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment. Oakland: Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, 2009.

Gainsburg, Jeannie. The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020.

Wong, Alice. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books, 2020.

Website/Blog

The Guide to Allyship

Quiz: What Kind of Ally Are You? – White Ally Toolkil

Learning to be an Ally for People from Diverse Groups and Backgrounds – Community Toolbox

Becoming an Ally – UNLV Anti Opression Resources

SURJ – Showing Up For Racial Justice

“Know” – UCLA Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Anti-Oppression – Simmons University

Movies/Films/Video

I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much. Stella Young, 2014.

A Poem for My White Friends: I Didn’t Tell You. Norma J, 2013.

How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them. Verna Myers, 2014.

13th. Ava DuVernay, dir. Netflix, 2016.

Whose Streets? Sabaah Folayan, dir. Magnolia Pictures, 2017.

Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community. Greta Schiller, dir. First Run Features, 1985. 

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Nicole Newnham & Jim LeBrecht, dir. Netflix, 2020.

3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace. Melinda Epley, 2018. 

Implicit Bias Video Series. UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, 2019.

Disclosure.  Sam Feder and Amy Sholder, dir. Netflix, 2020.

Articles

Podcast