May 2019

Greetings,

Periodically, the ILA Committee for Diversity & Inclusion shares resources on issues relating to diversity and inclusion. Here is another of our emails with items that may be of interest or value to those seeking to learn more about diversity, inclusion, and social justice. While we know we can’t be comprehensive, we do our best to collect timely resources on library-related issues and share those every few weeks. If you have resources that fall under the diversity and inclusion umbrella you feel might be helpful or interesting for the ILA membership, please send them my way and I will work with the committee to share them out as appropriate.

Sincerely,

Cara B. Stone

Chair, Committee for Diversity & Inclusion

• Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgement https://usdac.us/nativeland?fbclid=IwAR3H7BaXmVyRvkoFB0CYJxY0EKoRw0mtT54Rwm0xt8JHDCTdt-8pnh0BqaU
• April Hathcock’s recommended reading list: https://aprilhathcock.wordpress.com/recommended-reading/
• The Oatmeal - You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe?fbclid=IwAR0CWvw_9rkSMU5d8H6nCaX9HqOPxCGSYAfSZCySfDKkeKz1PdmWBJ-mp5Q
• Caring for LGBTQ+ Youth https://nnlm.gov/class/caring-lgbtq-youth/11613 Online Class -  June 7th (Thanks to Julie Finch for sharing!)
• White Women who Teach Black Boys Institute - Ames, IA - June 17-18 - Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/white-women-who-teach-black-boys-institute-tickets-58943892770?ref=eios
• 15 Unsettling Facts on Black Education in Iowa https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2016/05/31/15-startling-facts-black-education-iowa/85128236/
• Iowa teachers are ‘ill-prepared’ to help Black boys learn and thrive https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/rekha-basu/2018/03/21/black-boys-race-iowa-schools-teachers/442991002/
• Waterville children’s bookstore gets backlash for drag queen event https://www.centralmaine.com/2019/05/13/waterville-childrens-bookstore-gets-backlash-for-drag-queen-event/?fbclid=IwAR1mR5D8varyblGupHRWe8tEairL0BEdAbVsRh6ZZkvIa2s7uU0g79YdbEc
• ASL and Deaf Culture from Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=witq6XzLWQk&fbclid=IwAR2Ar44Hl7qDg6M0g1lPSicuV9RblrF51c1p_xgUxt8CKxGXlBAE4DO-NAA
• I’m a Black feminist & here’s how I feel about the term POC https://www.bustle.com/p/im-a-black-feminist-heres-how-i-feel-about-the-term-poc-17859807?fbclid=IwAR3xnB1q_1h8fumkF1MrB3xxN1xFl1v25vSIwkfpsreL00Xe0neWaO1rQOw
• Des Moines metro libraries curb noise, dim lights to better serve patrons with autism https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/05/08/des-moines-public-library-autistic-autism-community-sensory-spaces-hours-grimes-altoona-johnston/3626198002/?fbclid=IwAR0PppjrcfoTjt4H4-1yMutCOZRnkft3MbTR4FbSRzsSD9_6ltspvtktiYU
• Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/health/pregnancy-deaths-.html?fbclid=IwAR0_Qjpw44DImdCjOAmPetYWIu5WqUzmFyOURtHo9DLbo-i7QwYkIId4vG8
• Church confronts, expels member for racist views https://www.huffpost.com/entry/church-confronts-expels-m_n_671083?fbclid=IwAR3iH5K13YerII4QvuNKngNH-oX8C1gW35BTukhWY8orsXypQQBfwCfyU_c
• Meet Olivia Samples: Iowa’s First Black Doula https://mamaglow.com/meet-olivia-samples-iowas-first-black-doula/?fbclid=IwAR2W9IPB29Gv19HNKAuOgu3qW8JUKqe4Ko9StcbHLPPoZtec_yksT4V4z54
• Paul Rykken, Social Studies Teacher, Says All Subjects Can Be Infused with American Indian Perspectives https://wisconsinfirstnations.org/social-studies-teacher-paul-rykken-says-subjects-can-infused-american-indian-perspectives/?fbclid=IwAR2Ck8dGStpjAfO_aVwo1CnMpn_5kpwNtBcZQJlXxA2VpiooQo9dgvLL8Qk
• While we need racial literacy now more than ever https://teachingwhilewhite.org/blog/2019/3/21/why-we-need-racial-literacy-now-more-than-ever?fbclid=IwAR22ny01qMAUlDSqj7gJClCu7LzQmCqCtALE7KNYeWn3Ias5nrEVQah3S9U
• Yes! You were here, too: Yearbook portraits of AAPI students from the 1940s https://isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/yes-you-were-here-too-yearbook-portraits-of-aapi-students-from-the-1940s/?fbclid=IwAR2hjtP3n1JSg1XKgxsTqWmcYDs1X5YD8n84I-HoV9qf0WxHwNzaBnE8W_0
• The Struggle Continues: How the endings of children’s literature create false narratives of social movements https://socialjusticebooks.org/the-struggle-continues/?fbclid=IwAR02A_o-LasqIFjWJ2ZsroeKSwEr1arKkO0LbGgCPiC4y4IB_FI18b-4Kmw
• First Black teen author ever to write 3 books being used by school districts across the country as part of their teaching curriculum http://www.blacknews.com/news/essynce-moore-first-black-teen-author-books-school-districts-teaching-curriculum/?fbclid=IwAR08H6XH3HLs2r4P9pQ41gLx2SWmSdV8SBCmAt1wJmy-roLrOyer9o1MZXQ
• How employees and companies can create workplaces that support mental health https://www.forbes.com/sites/sunovion/2019/04/23/how-employees-and-companies-can-create-workplaces-that-support-mental-health/?fbclid=IwAR0Ls4LpwPAEaVzWZok5y-8g6vGVaNNazAYcKWw8UJWq
• Finally, there’s a comedy where disability isn’t the punch line https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/special-new-disability-narratives?fbclid=IwAR2dScvEpu-SPZWVuxWkE1R6JHf6DtyGhDMR2YI8EWRxrgjg4AxeBvt0b0A
• This is for ‘The Undefeated:’ A new picture book celebrates Black brilliance https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02/708821115/this-is-for-the-undefeated-a-new-picture-book-celebrates-black-brilliance?fbclid=IwAR3H3GHd-pLjly2T5xlDmDg9Imr0EtJPZRlLzun3zgnm3mwpAGiprsWXOiU
• The white man template and academic bias https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2019/04/12/how-white-male-template-produces-barriers-minority-scholars-throughout-their#.XLBnIwTVLnM.twitter
• TSA agents say they’re not discriminating against Black women, but their body scanners might be https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be?utm_campaign=get-involved&utm_source=screendoor&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tsa
• Being Black in academic America https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20190418-black-academic?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg0qQ94mXueVu727_hhd-PXyUwpgrtaYDZvDmUTLELi6oNVN1TzU1TXdNSmZwWjVqSHl1RmZXVXNBdXdIc1pFRVRPcWVKZTl0Tll3Zw
• The disciplines where no Black people earn Ph.D.s https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/lack-of-black-doctoral-students/587413/
• May is Indigenous, Black, & People of Color (IBPOC) month https://31daysibpoc.wordpress.com/ and on Twitter https://twitter.com/hashtag/31DaysIBPOC?src=hashtag_click
• A certain looking white woman https://medium.com/@kellywickham/a-certain-looking-white-woman-1f8f2f14bcce
• 'Fast Color' Director Points Out Film's Lack Of Marketing And Hollywood's White, Male Gatekeepers https://shadowandact.com/fast-color-director-points-out-films-lack-of-marketing-and-hollywoods-old-white-male-gatekeepers
• Guest Post — From Diversity to Inclusion and Equity: Moving Beyond Good Intentions https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/03/08/guest-post-from-diversity-to-inclusion-and-equity-moving-beyond-good-intentions/ (Thanks to Dan Chibnall for sharing!)
• John Singleton Did Justice to a Poetic Vision for African-American Life https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/movies/john-singleton-boyz-n-the-hood.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_rr_20190504&nl=race-related&nl_art=0&nlid=69052829emc%3Dedit_rr_20190504&ref=headline&te=1
• Memoirs by Muslim women to read this Ramadan https://bookriot.com/2019/05/09/memoirs-by-muslim-women/
• Breaking Open: Open Pedagogy as Intentional Interruption https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2019/05/14/breaking-open-open-pedagogy-as-intentional-interruption/
• Ava DuVernay's new Netflix series sheds light on the horrors of wrongful incarceration https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/ava-duvernay-s-when-they-see-us-not-just-about-n1005151
• The Importance of Being Inclusive: Diversity in Collection Development for Academic Libraries, Friday May 17 webinar https://alapublishing.webex.com/mw3300/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=alapublishing&service=6&rnd=0.5920700608507035&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Falapublishing.webex.com%2Fec3300%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26%26%26EMK%3D4832534b0000000420eb6c372d14f01841f18eb96d53b3d9d3e6e06d50648f6bbc9aeaff78e2b3b4%26siteurl%3Dalapublishing%26confViewID%3D124915454164630952%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAASwcAAMOitfobSdrVDgKOm-rammRDvJN7Z7hMPWgZd-GQ2%26
• Hot Topics and Red Flags in Naturalization An Infopeople Hosted Webinar https://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?id=847&reset=1

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