The following are resources that students of ME-IDEA have shared with each other to support our learning and empowerment:

Books:

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

• The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure - Without Losing Your Soul by Kerry Ann Rockquemore & Tracey Laszloffy

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

• The Affordable City by Shane Phillips

Articles & Essays:

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehesi Coates (also available in audio format here)

• "Am I Going Crazy?!": A Critical Race Analysis of Doctoral Education by RE Gildersleeve, NN Croom, and PL Vasquez

• A Call to Action for an Anti-Racist Science Community from Geoscientists of Color: Listen, Act, Lead

• 10 Simple Rules for Building an Anti-Racist Lab by V. Bala Chaudhary and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

• The Diversity-Innovation Paradox in Science by Hofstra et. al.

• STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes by Canning et. al.

• An Anti-Deficit Achievement Framework for Research on Students of Color in STEM by Shaun R. Harper

• Recreating Wakanda by promoting Black excellence in ecology and evolution by Schell et. al.

Film:

• 13th

• Selma

• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

Podcasts:

• Seeing White

• The Worst Thing We've Ever Done (On the Media)

Recorded Seminars:

• Minding the Gap: The Distance Between Compositional Diversity and Institutional Transformation by Dr. Dafina-Lazarus Stewart

• Experiences of Black STEM in the Ivory: A Call to Disruptive Action (Day 1 and Day 2)

• Amplified: Race and Reality in STEM (Gladstone Institutes)

Make an impact outside of UW ME:

• Seattle Indivisible

• Seattle LGBTQ Center

• Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network

• Run for Something