Tier 1

Resources for our professional learning, as adults:

• Robyn Maynard: Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island

• History of RCMP racism 

• A Look at Anti-Black Racism in canada

• Yes, canada Has a Racism Crisis and It’s Killing Black and Indigenous Peoples

• Canadian Systemic Racism 

• What is environmental racism? Talking with Nova Scotia's Ingrid Waldron

• Environmental Racism Remains a Reality in canada

• ‘This is about vulnerability’: Ingrid Waldron on the links between environmental racism and police brutality 

• Grassy Narrows mercury disaster a form of environmental racism

• What It's Like to Be a Native Trans Woman on Thanksgiving

• Racism and racist practices in schools negatively impact the well-being and achievement of Black students and create differential achievement outcomes and opportunities for success. 

Review resources for our professional learning, as adults:

• BLM Syllabus 

• Black Can. Lit

• 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship 

• African Nova Scotian History Books at Halifax Public Library

• Baratunde Thurston’s Ted Talk on “How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time”

• Black People Are Tired

• Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

• The 1619 Project by the New York Times

• Anti-Black Racism Resources

• Black Quantum Futurism 

• A list of resources for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement

• What to Say When People Deny the Reality of Violence 

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• 20 Ways to Be in The Struggle Beyond the Streets - makeitseen on Instagram

• Cineplex Free Movies: Black Stories 

• ‘Digital blackface’ dehumanizes Black people by flattening our stories

• What is Pinkwashing

• LGBTQ communities are elevating black voices during Pride Month in solidarity

• Pods and Pod Mapping

Review resources for our professional learning, as adults:

• Unist’ot’en Resources on Allyship

• Unist’ot’en Supporter Tool Kit 

• Accomplices Not Allies

• Mi'kmaq History & Culture Books at the Halifax Library

• Mi’kmaq History Month

• Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis

• As the RCMP deny systemic racism, here’s the real history

• MMIWG2S

• Defend the Territory 

• Wet’suwet’en Strong

• Decolonization is not a metaphor

• To Breathe Together: Co-Conspirators for Decolonial Futures

• What Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me

• Decolonization Is for Everyone

• Leanne Simpson’s Public Lecture: “As We Have Always Done”

• Indigenous Cinema 

• Unreserved

• Consult for strategies to create relationships with the land and all beings.

• Use your voice and your actions to become an ally to marginalized communities. 

Review resources for our professional learning, as adults:

• First, Listen. Then, Learn: Anti-Racism Resources For White People

• Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People

• The Real Safe Spaces for Black People Are Places Where We Can Escape the White Gaze

• Guidelines for Effective White Caucuses

• White Culture is Violent - ekdoux on Instagram

• Anti-Racism Resources for White People by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein

• White People: Here Are 3 Things You Should Start Doing for Racial Justice 

• Whiteness and White Fragility

• Use resources like "Know The Signals" and the Bias Evaluation Tool to ensure all resources used in the classroom are appropriate and do not perpetuate racism and discrimination.

An important part of being an ALLY is to regularly read and learn about cultures and people who are different from you. It might help to think of books as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. A ‘mirror’ book is one in which a reader sees a reflection of their own lived experience and culture. A ‘window’ book is a book that provides a window into a lived experience or culture that is different from the reader’s. A ‘sliding glass door’ book is one that has parts that reflect the reader’s own experience and parts that are a window into an experience that is different. Reading a variety of books that are mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors will help us learn about others and think like an ALLY.