DEI Actions

156 years after the official announcement by the Union Army proclaiming and enforcing the freedom of enslaved people in Texas, Juneteenth is now formally recognized as a federal holiday.

June's Common Action will involve selecting and engaging in one of these pieces that outlines the need for more work to be done around the structural anti-racism that still exists for Black Americans:

• Read The Harvard Gazette's How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy

• Read The Atlantic's The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehesi Coates)

• Read Learning for Justice's The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools

• Listen to an episode of 1619, a podcast From The New York Times

• Listen to an episode of Nice White Parents, a podcast From The New York Times

• Watch 13th (also streaming on Netflix)

• Watch Slavery by Another Name (PBS Documentary)

Additional DEI Action Recommendations to learn more about Juneteenth:

• Watch Black-Ish's Juneteenth episode (Season 4, Episode 1, streaming on Hulu)

• Watch Vox's Why All Americans Should Honor Juneteenth and/or read Vox's Juneteenth, Explained

• CU University Libraries' Juneteenth resources list

• Additional ways to take action, curated by #hellajuneteenth

Bonus content!

• Celebrate the contributions and resilience of Black Americans and enjoy this banger: Pharrell Williams' (ft. Jay-Z) Official Music Video for "Entrepreneur"

• Read about CU Boulder's new Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS), which will be located in Macky

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated nationally each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City. This particular event became known as a key impetus for the gay liberation movement and the fight for LGBTQ rights.

July's Common Action will involve selecting and engaging in one of these pieces that sheds insight into the queer experience and educates on LGBTQ+ allyship:

• Read the entirety of mypronouns.org's Personal Pronouns website (from "What/Why" to "Resources")

• Read the Journal of Engineering Education's LGBTQ Inequality in Engineering Education article

• Listen to a podcast, with specific episode recommendations from The Advocate

• Watch Disclosure (streaming on Netflix)

• Watch an episode from FX's Pride docuseries (streaming on Hulu)

Additional DEI Action recommendations to learn more about trans and queer communities:

• Review a timeline of LGBTQ Rights in American History

• Listen to the 99% Invisible podcast episode: Remembering Stonewall

• Partner up with a young reader to read and discuss one of these LGBTQ+ Children's and Young Adult books

• Read Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance (Syan Rose) - full text available online through EBSCO, requires CU Boulder sign-in

• Read interviews with queer video game developers who are changing the video game "game" in The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games (Bonnie Ruberg) - full text available online through Duke University Press, requires CU Boulder sign-in

• Watch the pilot episode of Pose (streaming on Netflix)

• Watch Visible Silence (full documentary available through Kanopy, requires CU Boulder sign-in)

• Read National Today's "how to" guide on Pride Month - June 2022

Bonus content!

• Explore CU Boulder's Center for Inclusion and Social Change (CISC) Trans & Queer page to learn about resources available to LGBTQ+ students, staff, and faculty - includes a campus map of gender neutral bathrooms and information related to name changes

For the concluding month of The Challenge, the common action theme is Ableism. As members of the academic community, consideration of impairments and disabilities has been a necessary conversation topic tied to structural inequities in the higher education system. As you engage in at least one of the action items below, please consider the experience of how this plays out in your expectations of students and colleagues and in your work at CU Boulder.

August's Common Action will involve selecting and engaging in at least one of these pieces that shines light on disability justice, and provides perspective on the disparity of accommodation and access for those whose experiences have often been invisible and overlooked:

• Read Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, edited by Alice Wong

• Read The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown

• Read the NYT article: With Games Approaching, Paralympians Say They Need More Support

• Read Mia Mingus' article Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm

• Listen to an episode from the Disability Visibility podcast (episode and resource guide)

• Watch A Conversation With Haben Girma (an American disability rights advocate, and the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School)

• Watch Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (streaming on Netflix and YouTube)

Additional DEI Action recommendations:

• Review a timeline of Disability History

• Consult resources on CU Boulder's Accessible Technology webpage

• Consult this list of resources and further reading about anti-ableism, access, and disability justice

• Partner up with a young reader to read and discuss one of these books centered on disability and autism

• Read the blog article Is There a Right or Wrong Way to Identify with a Disability?

• Watch My Body Doesn't Oppress Me, Society Does (5 minutes)

Bonus content!

• Watch athletes make history in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (August 24- September 5)!

Read

• Blog Post from AAAS-IUSE: Designing for Difference: Conceptualizing and Planning for Variations in Learners’ Needs, Abilities, and Interests

• eNewsletter Post from A Tomorrow's Professor: Unique Circumstances for Minority Scientists During COVID-19 - Q&A

• Fictional Novel: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

• (New!) Article from The Conversation: What is cultural appropriation, and how does it differ from cultural appreciation?

Watch

• Documentary: Let It Fall (streaming on Netflix)

This documentary chronicles simmering tension and broken trust between L.A.'s Black community and police in the decade before the Rodney King riots.

• Documentary: LFG (streaming on HBOMax)

LFG is a no-holds-barred, inside account of the U.S. women’s national team’s ongoing fight for equal pay as told by Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara, Sam Mewis and others.

• TV Show: Mixed-ish (streaming on Hulu and ABC.com)

Rainbow Johnson recounts her experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the '80s, and the dilemmas of acclimating to the suburbs while staying true to themselves.

• TV Show: High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (streaming on Netflix)

Black food is American food. Chef and writer Stephen Satterfield traces the delicious, moving through lines from Africa to Texas in this docuseries.

Listen

• Ibram X. Kendi's Be Antiracist podcast: Ableism & Racism: Roots of the Same Tree

• WorkLife with Adam Grant podcast episode: Building an Anti-Racist Workplace

• WorkLife with Adam Grant podcast episode: Who's the Boss?

• 99% Invisible podcast episode: Remembering Stonewall

• 99% Invisible podcast episode: Repackaging the Pill

• • University Libraries Anti-Racism Resources page

  • University Libraries LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Books & Films

  • Actions from the CEAS 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge

    1. Week 1: History Through the Lens of Race

    2. Week 2: Microaggressions, Whiteness and Implicit Bias

    3. Week 3: The Media and Race

    4. Week 4: Allyship and Action Steps

  • UMKC DEI Reading List

  • Stanford Suggested Readings for Disability & Racial Justice

  • UMassAmherst Readings & Media on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

  • Out Boulder County Recommended Readings

  • Office of Undergraduate Education’s resources page

  • Buffs One Read: 2021 Selection - American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, edited by actress and activist America Ferrera.

• • Building CU's Strength Through Diversity

  • Racial Equity Awareness Resources to Listen to

  • ENVD Designers Without Boundaries

  • (New!) Buff Innovator Insights episode featuring Dr. Reiland Rabaka, Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS)

• • CTL's Equitable Teaching Conference: August 9-13

• • Listed on the CU Boulder DEI Events Calendar

  • Listed on the DEI Actions Challenge Calendar

• • Anti-Racism course (Canvas)

  • Anti-Racism I course (Coursera)

  • Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Managers (LinkedIn Learning)

  • Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for All (LinkedIn Learning)

  • Hollaback Bystander Intervention training

• • CU Boulder DEI Network Happy Hour

  • INVST

  • CTL’s Inclusive Communities of Practice

  • This could even involve engaging in dialogue with your kids about a DEI-centered children's book or movie or TV show

• • Visit historical, culturally-significant landmarks, exhibits, museums, cultural centers

  • Black American West Museum & Heritage Center (Denver, currently closed)

  • Cortez Cultural Center (Cortez, CO)

  • Mexican Cultural Center (Denver)

  • Asian Pacific American Cultural Center (CSU)