The Social Justice Toolbox: a resource for educators & facilitators
May 13, 2019 11:14 AM   Subscribe

Created by Meg Bolger, the Social Justice Toolbox has lesson plans/activity guides for educators and facilitators who want to introduce issues of diversity and inclusion in their classes and workshops. Activities range from low to high trust requirements and topics cover a range of social justice issues including race and racism; what it means (and how to be) an ally; privilege; intersectionality; respectful pronoun use.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl (6 comments total) 31 users marked this as a favorite
 
YES

this is helpful for my work. I've been trying to assemble a toolbox of diversity, equity, and inclusion activities just like these. THANK YOU
posted by rebent at 12:24 PM on May 13, 2019 [3 favorites]


I looked at the race sheet and actually had to sit still and think about my own puzzlement trying to answer the stated question. I do not racially identify as an Asian American. Asian American is a category, not an identity. Critically, it is a category conferred upon me in difference to colonial and hegemonic Whiteness without which it would it have the same salience or meaning to me.

The fact that I had to sit through lunch to come up with this response that I feel okay with, one informed by critical race studies, puts me at a disadvantage in such an exercise. And even if I did articulate my position in time, a typical mixed group would likely think I'm full of it or wrong or something.
posted by polymodus at 12:46 PM on May 13, 2019 [4 favorites]


The pronoun one is also kinda weird in that it says, "In English pronouns we have two sets of gendered pronouns," and does not as far as I see, mention that there are more than two sets of pronouns in use.

The resource "Creating Authentic Spaces" from the 519 in Toronto is usually what I've recommended to cis folks wanting to learn how to do pronoun use and trans inclusion 101, and people seem to find it helpful.
posted by ITheCosmos at 2:33 PM on May 13, 2019 [8 favorites]


As noted above, isn’t the idea of a hegemonic “toolbox” for social justice itself a bit of an oxymoron?
posted by Middlemarch at 3:22 PM on May 13, 2019


Just because a toolbox might not include every possible tool, and just because someone could use, say, a hammer as a weapon, does not mean that a starter toolbox is not useful.
posted by PhineasGage at 4:19 PM on May 13, 2019 [6 favorites]


Also relevant : Pods and Podmapping worksheets from the Bay Area Reformative Justice Collective
posted by FirstMateKate at 10:27 AM on May 14, 2019 [1 favorite]


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