Wednesday, June 10: A Strike For Black Lives
#strike4blacklives #strikeforblacklives #shutdownstem
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
The following resources constitute information that the authors believe to be of value to the wider community. Signing the community statement and participating in the strike are not endorsements of these references.
Organizations
- National Society of Black Physicists
- African American Women in Physics
- Canadian Black Scientists Network
Self-Care Information for Black People
- Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week
- Family-Care, Community-Care and Self-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma
- Therapy For Black Girls Podcast (especially Session 152)
- 7 Virtual Mental Health Resources Supporting Black People Right Now
- On the Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM. Self-care Session 1: Light at the End of the Tunnel
- The Nap Ministry
- Black Girl in Om
- Shine (has a Black Lives Matter meditation)
- The Underbelly Yoga
- Beronda Montgomery (mentoring, leadership)
- For Colored Girls in Academia Who Have Burned Out / When Rest Is Enough
Books
- Country of Origin (Revised)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
- The Hate U Give
- Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
- White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race
- Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
- 5 Books About Black Movements and Systemic Racism in America
- So You Want to Talk about Race
- Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
- Heavy: An American Memoir
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
- Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
- Thick: And Other Essays
- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
- But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
- White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
- Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence
Online articles and resources
- Why Are There So Few Black Physicists? A New Report Describes What Needs to Change
- ThisIsBlackLight: A Curriculum for the Free
- US & Canadian Race and Racism Reading List
- The Rules of the Diversity and Inclusion Racket
- Diversity is a Dangerous Set-Up
- THE TIME IS NOW: AIP Team-up report
- “We Are All for Diversity, but...”: How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change
- Movement Generation: Just Transition
- Black Students' Lived Experiences with and Perceptions of Law Enforcement
- Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
- What is the plan for including Tamir Rice in #STEM?
- Alternatives to Police in Mental Health Response Fact Sheet
- Alternatives to Calling the Police During Mental Health Crises
- A Community Compilation on Police Abolition
- Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
- Let’s Talk About Racism | ‘I am tired of being a black man in India’
- Why Are Black Women and Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence?
- The 'Benefits' of Black Physics Students
- Lose Your Kin
- How Long Should We Wait?
- Manifest-no
- Why the Black struggle in Canada has all but been erased
- A Different Kind of Dark Energy: Placing Race and Gender in Physics
- Educational pathways of Black women physicists: Stories of experiencing and overcoming obstacles in life
- How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting Than Black Lives
- American Studies Association President's Statement on Black Lives Matter and the Rebellion of 2020
- White Academia: Do Better
- Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
- How Do We Change America?
- Oakland Power Projects. Project 1: Healthare. Policing is a Health Issue!
- 12 Things to do Instead of Calling the Cops
- The Empty Promise of the Supreme Court’s Landmark Affirmative Action Case
- Social Science Research Council: On Mourning, Moving Forward, and a Social Science of Solutions
- Why We Must Immediately Cease and Desist Referring to Enslaved People as, “Slaves”
- A Letter To My White Friends
- Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not.
- I’m a Black Female Scientist. On My First Day of Work, a Colleague Threatened to Call the Cops on Me.
Podcasts
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
Videos
- Nikki Giovanni -- "Is that too much of a Black Woman to ask of a Black Man?" Full Version
- James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
- James Baldwin confronts “idealism” that he has never seen
- Association of Black Women Historians TV, Ep 5: Black Women, History, and State Violence.
- Resistance and Resurgence: Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Canada
- The Imperatives of Anti-Racism in Leadership - Dr. Marcia Anderson AHSLP Keynote
Kid-Friendly Resources
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
- 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
- How to talk to young children about the Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles
- Beyond the Golden Rule
- Teaching about Race, Racism, and Police Violence
- CNN/Sesame Street racism town hall
links for donations
- ROSESLA Memorial Project
- National Bail Fund Network: Directory of Community Bail Funds
- Trans Women of Color Collective
- #SAYHERNAME
- Blackbelt Community Foundation: COVID-19 Relief for Black people
- Donations to the African American Women in Physics (donate button at the bottom of the linked page)
- Unapologetically Being