Resources for Learning

Addressing Anti-Asian Racism: A Resource for Educators: A guide to combatting Anti-Asian racism within schools and classrooms  

Immigration Waterloo Region Resources: A guide to learn about racism and access resources, tools and information to assist in taking action to end racism in Waterloo Region. 

Breathe: a letter to my sons: Imani Perry Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. 

Dominant Cultural Narratives, Racism, and Resistance in the Workplace: A Study of the Experiences of Young Black Canadians: Published by Community Psychology and writted by Julian Hasford, focuses on experiences of young black Canadians in the workforce. 

Interrupted childhoods: Over-representation of Indigenous and Black children in Ontario child welfare: Key findings published by the Ontario Human Rights Commission 

The Skin We're In. A Year of Black Resistance and Power: A book that addresses the “bubble of Canadian smugness and naïve assumptions of a post-racial nation” and “chronicles just one year- 2017- in the struggle against racism in this country” 

Interrupted childhoods: Over-representation of Indigenous and Black children in Ontario child welfare: Key findings published by the Ontario Human Rights Commission 

The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities: The book will be appeal to anyone interested in the issue of equity within the university setting. This includes faculty members from many disciplines; administrators at all levels; students and graduate students; and people interested in equity issues outside of academia.

Anti-Racism Guide from Western Carolina University: Definitions of racism, anti-racism, white supremacy, a collection of resources for anti-racist allies and people of colour 

Call it out: Racism, racial discrimination and human rights: A 30-minute interactive eLearning course that offers a foundation for learning about race, racial discrimination and human rights protections under Ontario's Human Rights Code. 

How To Be An Anti-Racist: Excerpt: “Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Ibram X. Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.” 

Me and My White Supremacy: Layla Saad’s 28-day challenge that leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy, so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on black, indigenous and people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. 

So You Want to Talk About Race: Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. 

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. 

Confronting Antisemitism: An information sheet put together by the City of Toronto to address antisemitism.

Trauma, Narrative, and Two Forms of Death: Goldberg explores the relationship of trauma and stories, using the Holocaust and Jewish identity as a backdrop. 

Antisemitism in History and Politics: Bartov dissects the history of antisemitism within the realm of politics to highlight its pervasiveness in contemporary spaces.

Bystander Intervention Skills: Intervening when Sexual Violence Occurs (uwaterloo.ca) Bystander Intervention Skills and Strategies developed by the University of Waterloo’s Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office 

The Socio-Ecological Model of Sexual Violence Prevention: How it relates to Active Bystander Intervention on our University Campuses A resource developed by the University of Waterloo’s Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office.  

Bystanders are Essential to Bullying Prevention and Intervention: A fact sheet put together by stopbullying.gov that focuses on bystander prevention and intervention within bullying. 

Ableism and discrimination based on disability: This 20-minute audiocast is based on the OHRC’s Policy on ableism and discrimination based on disability (2016).  

Leading Towards Disability Justice: A podcast episode by Dr. Gillian Parekh that highlights disability justice and combatting ableism in higher education.  

Resources for Promoting Disability Justice: A resource guide put together by Columbia University to help people combat ableism.  

Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People: A primer created by Sins Invalid to offer concrete suggestions for moving beyond the socialization of ableism.  

Working Together: The Code and the AODA: This 5-part eLearning series (20 minutes) is for public, private and not-for-profit sectors and completes the training requirements for section 7 of the Integrated Accessibility Standards of the AODA. 

On the Borderzone: Toronto’s Diasporic Queer Muslims: Nayrouz Abu-Hatoum’s Masters thesis on the experiences of “home” and “exile” felt within the Muslim Queer community in Toronto.   

Queer Lovers and Hateful Others by Jin Haritaworn: An exploration of the tensions between queerness and Islamophobia with a concentration on the study of homonationalism.

Dr. Kevin Nadal’s A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions: A guide on different forms of microaggressions and how to respond to them.  

Project Implicit: A non-profit organization and international collaborative of researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition. 

That’s So Gay! – Kevin L. Nadal: A book that focuses on the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience and microaggressions.  

Unpacking microaggression - dismantling 2SLGBTQ+ stereotypes: A guide put together by Toronto Metropolitan University that outlines how we can challenge implicit bias regarding 2SLGBTQIA+ identities. 

Examples of Disability Microaggressions in Everyday Life: A guide created by Washington State University Vancouver that covers common examples of ableist microaggressions.  

Online microaggressions strongly impact disabled users: A study done by the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science regarding the link between ableist microaggressions and the internet.

GLOW Trans Resources: Resources put together by the University of Waterloo’s GLOW Centre, Canada’s longest standing 2SLGBTQIA+ university group. 

Your Journey: A Career Guide for Trans and Nonbinary Students: A guide created by the University of Toronto to help provide career support for trans and nonbinary students.

2SLGBTQIA+ Fundamentals Terminology.

Human rights and newcomers: eLearning series that were originally created in response to the Syrian refugee crisis. They can help all newcomers, support agencies and the public learn about their rights and responsibilities under Ontario’s Human Rights Code. 

Removing the “Canadian experience barrier”:  eLearning on Removing the "Canadian experience" barrier in employment and rights and responsibilities under the Ontario Human Rights Code.