zhiviToday’s #TopicOfConversation. Please share 1 way you are fighting racism/prejudices in your life. mine is in the reply. Are you reading, having conversation, workshops, etc? Maybe other will do what you are doing. #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
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I'm currently enrolled in a free Ethical and Inclusive Leadership course. Let me know if you want to take it. You have to finish at the end of December. Most of you know I hosted a DEI conference at work yesterday. I'll post about it later today. I am still recuperating, lol. One more, last week I took a Deconstructing Racism workshop. It was 🤯
@Aobius here’s today’s conversation. Do you have suggestion?
Jaime R Wood-Riley (She/ They)@zhivi I'm following/promoting BIPOC creators on social media & elsewhere. Like, I got a group of friends together to see the new Black Panther movie opening weekend so it would help box office numbers. I'm reading N.K. Jemisin. I listen to the podcast Jemele Hill Is Unbothered. I share a lot of this content at work in our "Advancing Equity" Slack channel. I also participate in our "Conversations on Race" meetings at work. Connecting with BIPOC creators helps me get outside my white bubble.
@jaimerwood I love what you are doing. I think conversations are sooo important. But we have to put action behind it. Do you agree? How did everyone like Black Panther? Thanks for sharing the podcast and book.
@zhivi I totally agree! We have to move past learning & talking about change. I get to do this a lot at work b/c my job is to teach STEM, business, & design faculty to incorporate DEIJB into their courses. I LOVED the new Black Panther. So did my friends. It was interesting that the 3 main settings (besides Wakanda) were the U.S., Haiti, & Mexico, all places in N. America scarred by colonialism and the slave trade.
@jaimerwood I’m in education also. I’m in instructional designer. What is one thing you suggest to faculty?
@zhivi my main 3 intros to DEIJB for faculty are
1. Diversify your content
2. Design flexibility into your course policies (late work, etc)
3. Give students choice around how they demonstrate their learning and how they're assessed (self-assessment is legit in some contexts)
What about you? What are you go-to DEIJB tips for faculty?
@jaimerwood thanks. I do a training on Bias in the classroom. Now to get them to come. We are far behind the 8 ball.
@zhivi this work is so important and hard. I commend you for doing it. When I was a #faculty developer at a university, I would mask my DEIJB content with workshop titles like "Student Success Best Practices" and then the workshop would be about equity and inclusion or universal design for learning. Gotta trick white folks into doing better. Haha
@jaimerwood I love that trick. Lol. Now that the conference is over, I’ll think about being more creative.
@jaimerwood I might borrow that title lol
Eryn McConnell@zhivi I read and promote more BIPOC writers, particularly poets.
@ErynMcConnell thank you for replying. Can you share 2 writes we could read?
@zhivi for sure.
Britney S. Lewis, the Undead Truth of Us
Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments
Big Feels: I feel too much, Kyoko W.P
Symphony of Secrets, Shalaka Sawant
Washed Away, Shiksha Dheda
Mars Nuked, Mukesh Gandhi
Loveish, Sakshi Narula
Whirlwind of Mosaic Pieces, Marcia Lynn Paul
Observations through Yellow Glasses, Yong Takahashi
Fiction wise I have not read as much yet. Most of it is trad but I did read an epic fantasy series by Tatiana Obey who writes North African inspired mythical fantasy. She is an indie author and BIPOC. Marvellous writer.
Xiran Jay Zhao, Sue Lynn Tan, Ha Jin and Judy Lin are fantastic trad BIPOC authors, mostly fantasy.
@ErynMcConnell @maiakbc do you think Eryn would be interested in the book you are currently writing? Maybe you can give her an overview.
Maia KB Chowdhury@zhivi @ErynMcConnell that’s a big topic (3 novels and one published so far)… I will muse on this today while I am in first draft mode of writing novel #3 and will reply this weekend! In the meantime Eryn there are links on my page. Will follow up shortly on this and thanks for the nudge Zhivi to articulate this. Coming soon… 🙏
@ErynMcConnell @maiakbc you’re welcome. I told you I was gonna do something, so every change I get, when I remember, I’m gonna promote you 😊
@zhivi @ErynMcConnell omg you’re the best. 🙏🙏🙏
@ErynMcConnell @maiakbc is the book a series of books?
Yvonne Aburrow 🌻@zhivi @maiakbc @ErynMcConnell
Incomplete list of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy (with links to other lists) that I compiled. I would add Octavia Butler now (I hadn’t read her stuff when I made the list).
https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2020/06/19/bipoc-science-fiction-fantasy/
#ScienceFiction #fantasy #BIPOC #IndigenousFuturism #IndigenousBooks
@vogelbeere @ErynMcConnell @maiakbc thank you. I’ll bookmark this page. I’m so glad I posted this as a #TopicOfConversation today.
@ErynMcConnell Thank you for sharing. I’m going to bookmark this post.
@zhivi that's way more than 2, sorry! But I love all these so.
@ErynMcConnell Now, why are you sorry? Never be sorry on my posts, lol. I listed more than 2 also, lol.
@zhivi I got a bit carried away and listed them all! But I would love to see more exposure for these writers.
@ErynMcConnell Thanks for sharing them.
Les Lore
@leslore Thank you for sharing. Boot on the ground is very helpful. What is landback?
@zhivi I grew up near Oshweken - it is about 5% of the land left after a broken promise
here in BC virtually all of the land is unceded
@leslore Thank you for sharing.
@zhivi @leslore in Canada, Indigenous Peoples have 0.2% of the land and it means that they cannot sustain themselves or have sovereignty so #LandBack is about restoring their land base to them. Recommended reading: “Unsettling Canada” and “The Reconciliation Manifesto” by Art Manuel; “Indigenous Writes” by Chelsea Vowel.
@vogelbeere @leslore thank you. That’s what I thought but wanted to make sure.
@vogelbeere have you seem this website? https://native-land.ca/
@leslore have you seem this website? https://native-land.ca/ could this be helpful?
@zhivi No. But thank you & wow! Bookmarked & tab open... Thank you very much!🙏
Aziz Poonawalla@zhivi I do so by unapologetically being myself, especially with regard to my faith. I wear my religious cap at work, maintain an uncut beard, and offer my prayers on my travel prayer-mat while in public, in parking lots or wherever else i can find a spot. My wife and daughters proudly wear #hijab and I take time off regardless of work schedule for important religious events like #Ashara or #Eid. We do not compromise faith for others' sake.
Polly
Timism@zhivi I’ve been acknowledging and combating against my own biases and try to encourage others to do the same (especially in the workplace). Knowing that there is always going to be opportunity to develop in this arena is a driver for me and I’m thankful to be in spaces where myself and others can seek out opportunities to grow and be stretched.
@timism I know we all have biases. I was in a workshop where we had to list 3 biases. This was so hard for me to do. I actually had to research examples of biases. 1 is religion, I have a bias for pit bulls, I forgot the third one I listed. I need more work.
@zhivi I decided to stop fighting and to start advocating. It is a better use of my energy. I also wanted to write about race in a personal way to me because I feel more power in that starting place. So, when I write ecofiction, I also write race. From my POV. But, can every character realistically be half Asian and half European in a novel? That gets boring. So I branched out to include ethnicities I’ve been mistaken for, and have had that conversation on the page. And then branched out further to look at architectural and community impacts of development on race and minorities, since I’m an architect. Using what I know as a springboard and questioning what I think I know. Keeping it intersectional.
@maiakbc thank you. I was looking for a word to use. I didn’t want to use fight but it’s the only one I had lol. Advocating.