Co-Founders, Tony Porter and Ted Bunch, address the underlying issues of violence against women and examine the responsibility of well meaning men in ending violence against women.
By Buck Blodgett
“Love is stronger than hate.”
That was a grieving dad's message to 1,000 people at his daughter’s funeral after she was brutally murdered in their home. Borne of this statement was Jessie Blodgett's legacy: The LOVE>hate Project.
By DAIS and DA's Domestic Violence Unit
By Nancy Venable Raine
After Silence is Nancy Venable Raine's eloquent, profoundly moving response to her rapist's command to "shut up," a command that is so often echoed by society and internalized by rape victims. Beginning with her assault by a stranger in her home in 1985, Raine's riveting narrative of the ten-year aftermath of her rape brings to light the truth that survivors of traumatic experiences know--a trauma does not end when you find yourself alive. With formidable power and in intimate detail, she probes the long-term psychological and physiological aftereffects of rape, its tangled sexual confusions, the treatment of rape by the media and the legal and medical professions, and contemporary cultural views of victimhood.
In 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman from a remote part of the Punjab, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan. Instead of committing suicide or living in shame, Mukhtar spoke out, fighting for justice in the Pakistani courts—making world headlines. Further defying custom, she started two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women.
By Susan Brownmiller
Against Our Will stands as a unique document of the history, politics, and sociology of rape and the inherent and ingrained inequality of men and women under the law. Fact by fact, Susan Brownmiller pulls back the centuries of damaging lies and misrepresentations to reveal how rape has been accepted in all societies and how it continues to profoundly affect women’s lives today.
Following a mental breakdown, Owen Lowery decided to make himself a list of 52 things he'd been meaning to do.
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems -- and according to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. Brod challenges young people to envision a model of sexual interaction that is most erotic precisely when it is most thoughtful and empathetic.
From End The Silence
By Danielle L McGuire
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written.
In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer--Rosa Parks--to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.
This powerful documentary uses real life experiences from Deaf people of varied social, racial, and educational backgrounds – showing how audism does lasting and harmful damage.
By Susan Faludi
By Dianne King Akers, M.Ed.
By Ibram X Kendi
Workbook that accompanies How to be an Antiracist
By Naomi Wolf
A CALL TO MEN is a violence prevention organization and respected leader on issues of masculinity, male socialization and its intersection with violence, and preventing violence against all women and girls.
By Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Edited By Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today’s failed models of confinement and “correction.”
In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical forms of redress and accountability, assessing existing practices and marking paths forward. They use a variety of forms—from toolkits to personal essays—to delve deeply into the “how to” of transformative justice, providing alternatives to calling the police, ways to support people having mental health crises, stories of community-based murder investigations, and much more. At the same time, they document the history of this radical movement, creating space for long-time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations.
By Babette Rothschild
This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.
While reducing the chasm between scientific theory and clinical practice and bridging the gap between talk therapy and body therapy, Rothschild presents principles and non-touch techniques for giving the body its due. With an eye to its relevance for clinicians, she consolidates current knowledge about the psychobiology of the stress response both in normally challenging situations and during extreme and prolonged trauma. This gives clinicians from all disciplines a foundation for speculating about the origins of their clients' symptoms and incorporating regard for the body into their practice. The somatic techniques are chosen with an eye to making trauma therapy safer while increasing mind-body integration.
This film is about several children who live in Calcutta’s red light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes. As they begin to look at and record their world through new eyes, the kids, who society refused to recognize, awaken for the first time to their own talents and sense of worth.
Based on a two-year undercover investigation, Bought & Sold documents the illegal trafficking in women for forced prostitution out of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, and into Europe, Asia and the United States.
Boys and Men Healing is a documentary about the impact the sexual abuse of boys has on both the individual and society, and the importance of healing and speaking out for male survivors to end the devastating effects.
By Paul Kivel
Drawing on his decades of experience as a social activist and his anti-violence work with men and teens, Kivel challenges the traditional training boys receive. He sorts out and helps parents grapple with the complex forces in our sons' lives, including racism, homophobia, pornography, drugs, classism, consumerism, sex, and living in violent environments. Then, Kivel provides the practical tools to empower boys to take the courageous step out of the "act like a man" box and become allies to themselves, each other, and all those who are vulnerable to violence and injustice in our society. The end result gives the reader a powerful vision of raising our sons to be the critically thinking, socially-invested men we need for a multicultural and democratic society.
Miss Israel Linor Abargil was abducted, stabbed, and raped in Milan, Italy, at age 18. She had to represent her country in the Miss World competition only six weeks later. When to her shock she was crowned the winner, she vowed to do something about rape. The film follows her from the rape, to her crowning and through her crusade to fight for justice and break the silence.
By Kathryn Clarke
A CALL TO MEN radically challenges the socialization of men by examining the social norms, culture and traditional images of manhood that has created an environment that supports, tolerates and often encourages men’s violence against women.
From the National Asian Women's Health Organization
Filmmaker Thomas Keith, a professor of philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, provides an engrossing look at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. Breaking down a range of contemporary media forms targeted explicitly at young men, Keith teases out the main maxims of 'bro culture' and 'the bro code,'' and examines how this seemingly ironic mentality reinforces misogyny and gender violence in the real world.
From the University of Wisconsin - Extension
Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today.
By The Bully Project
By Barbara Coloroso
CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.
From CALCASA
From the International Organization for Migration
By Casondra Brown
Confused, hurt, traumatized, embarrassed, ashamed... All the things this 16 year old felt in 1995 after being raped by a stranger that broke into her home. A stranger that got away with something that she was always taught was the most valuable possession of a young lady; her virginity. Determined not to allow her past to control her present; with all of the unanswered questions of why me, will justice ever be served, is he still out there, will their paths ever cross, she decided to forgive and move forward with her life. Unbeknownst to her, her rape kit sat in a room at the police department untested for 15 years. One phone call changed 15 years of unanswered questions to sudden fear, an emotional roller coaster and eventually an indescribable peace. Read this story of healing, forgiveness and justice.
By Isabel Wilkerson
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
By Lisa C. Dietrich
By Nora J Baladerian, Ph.D., Candice Heisler, J.D., Lt. & Mike Hertica, LMFT
By Facing History and Ourselves
By the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
From The Immigrant Justice Project
From the University of Kentucky College of Law
By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification. The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.
From the Family Violence Prevention Fund
By Ellis Cose
From the Tri-Ethnic Center For Prevention Research
This version includes 4 separate parts: 1) The 30-Minute Blue Eyed (the most concise version of the “blue eyed, brown eyed” exercise); 2) The Essential Blue Eyed (the “trainer’s edition, a 60 minute abridged version of BLUE EYED, plus a 30 minute debriefing with Jane Elliott); 3) Blue Eyed (the original 93 minute version); and 4) Trainer’s Manual (succinct suggestion for using BLUE EYED in your diversity training program. An online Facilitator Guide is available for this title at: http://newsreel.org/guides/blueeyed.html
By Dr. Amy Hammel-Zabin
By Shelia Mansel & Dick Sobsey
By William Cote & Roger Simpson
By Liz Seccuro
In order to effectively recognize, investigate, and prosecute crimes against victims with disabilities, understanding the spectrum of disabilities, as well as abilities, is essential. This DVD program is designed for professionals responsible for the investigation and prosecution of crimes against adults with disabilities.
By Patricia McCormick
Cyber-bullying is a crime in some States and has even led to death. Hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on Cyber-Bullying.
By Scott Lindquist F.C.P.P.
By Chief Dennis Nagy
By Tim Wise
By Renee Linklater
In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma. Decolonizing Trauma Work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives.
By Virginia Eubanks
Edited by Alice Wong
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.
This video is intended to raise awareness for victim advocates, criminal justice practitioners, and others who work with crime victims about the issues involved for those whose cases involve DNA evidence.
Dreamworlds 3 challenges young people to think seriously about how forms of entertainment that might seen innocuous and inconsequential can be implicated in serious real-world problems like gender violence, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.
Physical trauma resulting from abuse and neglect of older individuals may be mistaken for accidental injury, a disease process, or lifestyle choice. In this video program, nationally recognized medical, prosecution, and social service experts address how to evaluate evidence in context to recognize signs of elder physical and sexual abuse.
This documentary looks at the challenges of protecting older and vulnerable adults from abuse in Minnesota.
By Brittney Cooper
Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.
By adrienne maree brown
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
By Callen Harty
By Melissa Hook
By Stephanie Riger, Larry Bennett, Sharon M. Wasco
By Dennis M. Doren
By Astrid Heger, S. Jean Emans, & David Muram
By E.K. Johnston
This introductory video provides administrators with an overview of the Prison Rape Elimination Act law and discussion points to guide policy and practice.
By T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
By Susan Brownmiller
Mudan, a frightened young Asian girl, is forced into sex slavery. She takes solace in the memory of her mother's promise that she will find Mudan and take her away to America: the 'place where dreams come true'
By Grace Tower
Featuring dramatizations of interviews that Phillips conducted with hundreds of young women, the film examines how the wider culture’s frequently contradictory messages about pleasure, danger, agency, and victimization enter into women’s most intimate relationships with men.
By Lynn M. Phillips
By T.S. Nelson
Edited by Ibram X Kendi and Keisha N Blain
The story begins in 1619—a year before the Mayflower—when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.
Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. They approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects. While themes of resistance and struggle, of hope and reinvention, course through the book, this collection of diverse pieces from ninety different minds, reflecting ninety different perspectives, fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolith—instead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness.
By Angela Y Davis
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.
Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "Freedom is a constant struggle."
By Lynne Olson
By Amy Neustein & MicHael Lesher
By Laura R. Woliver
By James Cassese
By Johnetta Betsch and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
By various authors
This documentary looks specifically at misogyny and sexism in mainstream American media, exploring how negative definitions of femininity and hateful attitudes toward women get constructed and perpetuated at the very heart of our popular culture.
By Gavin De Becker
By Sharon Thompson
Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn’t much like how his life or his neighborhoodhas turned out. He especially doesn’t like the people next door, Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. But events force Walt to defend those neighbors against a local gang that feeds on violence and fear.
By Elizabeth G. Vermilyea, M.A.
From the Public Health Agency of Canada
Guyland maps the troubling social world where boys become men. Arguing that the traditional adult signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood are no longer clear, Kimmel provides an astonishing glimpse into a world where more and more young men are trying desperately to prove their masculinity to other young men -- with frequently disastrous consequences for young women and other young men.
This DVD takes on the central moral challenge of the 21st century: the oppression of women and girls worldwide. Take an unforgettable journey with six actresses/advocates and New York Times journalist Kristof to meet some of the most courageous individuals of our time, who are doing extraordinary work to empower women and girls everywhere
By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
By Peter A. Levine PH. D.
The Healing Years profiles three women through their journey of pain and despair from incest, and their incredible process of recovery as they finally work to end the cycle of incest and child sexual abuse for generations ahead.
By Joanne N. Smith, Mandy Van Deven
A riveting examination of representations of manhood in hip-hop culture. It pays tribute to hip-hop
while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for too often perpetuating
destructive, deeply conservative styles of manhood that glamorize sexism, violence and
homophobia.
By adrienne maree brown
In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small; individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations.
Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other. The majority of the book is sourced from brown’s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups.
Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light
district of Phnom Penh. Patrick an American man encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute. When she is sold to a child trafficker, Patrick embarks on a frantic search through both the beautiful and sordid faces of the country, in an attempt to bring her to safety.
By Mikki Kendall
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?
In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, Hood Feminism delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.
By Kathleen A. Bogle
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes.
By Ibram X Kendi
Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) struggles to expose the worldwide network that has enslaved them.
By K.G. Richardson
By Trisha Meili
By Lilada Gee
By Jacqueline Woodson
By Robin Warshaw
By Lori S. Robinson
By Austin Channing Brown
Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, “I had to learn what it means to love blackness,” a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America’s racial divide as a writer, speaker, and expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. In a time when nearly every institution (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claims to value diversity in its mission statement, Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice. Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America’s social fabric—from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations. For readers who have engaged with America’s legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness—if we let it—can save us all.
By Andrea Dworkin
By: Patricia Hill Collins & Sirma Bilge
By Louise McOrmond-Plummer
By Callen Harty
Documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best-kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem-today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire.
From the Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs
Tells the story of a group of women, led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women's right to vote.
By Jodi Gold
By Laurie Asplund
By Howard E. Barbaree & William L. Marshall
By Linda Lee Foltz
By Bell Hooks
Breaking down a staggering range of more than 160 print and television ads, Kilbourne uncovers a steady stream of sexist and misogynistic images and messages, laying bare a world of frighteningly thin women in positions of passivity, and a restrictive code of femininity that works to undermine girls and women in the real world
By Chanel Miller
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.
Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways--there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.
By Benoni Gaud
Examines how US news and entertainment media portray -- and do not portray -- Latinos. Drawing on the insights of Latino scholars, journalists, community leaders, actors, directors, and producers, they uncover a pattern of gross misrepresentation and gross under-representation.
By Mike Lew
Gives young people the chance to speak up in their own words about the real issues behind the problem. With amazing courage and candor, students discuss racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and more.
Let’s Talk About Sex takes a revealing look at how American attitudes toward adolescent sexuality impact today’s teenagers.
By Andrea Dworkin
Light in the Shadows is a frank conversation about race among ten women who participated in the ground-breaking film The Way Home. These American women of Indigenous, African, Arab/Middle Eastern, European, Jewish, Asian, Latina and Mixed Race descent, use authentic dialogue to crack open a critical door of consciousness.
The incarceration of a loved one can be very overwhelming for both children and caregivers. It can bring about big changes and transitions. In simple everyday ways, you can comfort your child and guide them through these tough moments. With your love and support they can get through anything that comes their way. Here are some tools to help you with the changes your child is going through.
By Ruby Asugha
By Anne K. Ream
By Richard Lory
By Alice Sebold
By Michael J. Domitrz
By Layla F Saad
Companion to the book Me and White Supremacy. This guided journal, which is to be used in tandem with the book and includes the book's original weekly prompts and lots of space for note-taking and freewriting, is the perfect place to continue your antiracism journey.
By Layla F Saad
Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook, this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home.
This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:
Examining your own white privilege
What allyship really means
Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation
Changing the way that you view and respond to race
How to continue the work to create social change
Paul Kivel focuses attention on the subject of male violence – its roots, its expression, and alternatives to it.
By Paul Kivel
Documentary featuring the experiences of white women and men who have worked to gain insight into what it means to challenge notions of racism and white supremacy in the United States.
By James Howe
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
By Gloria Steinem
Documentary hones in on the problem of physical, mental, and sexual abuse in lesbian relationships. The film not only presents compelling true stories from various racial perspectives, but also submits warning signs for recognizing abuse, whether it is you or someone in your personal sphere.
A short educational documentary that explores the roles of African American men and boys in the prevention of rape and sexual assault and being helpful to survivors.
By Callen Harty
According to a 2005 human rights report, over 800,000 people remain in bondage in the Saharan country of Niger. ABC News traveled to Niger to hear the stories of slaves that have managed to flee. They meet Ilguilas Weila, Niger’s Martin Luther King, founder of the civil rights organization Timidria.
By Janice L. Ristock
No Name-Calling demonstrates the damage that can be done when kids are targeted by hurtful words. This DVD is part of an original Kit titled No Name-Calling Week.
By Lori B. Girshick
By Robin D. Stone
Explores the international atrocity of heterosexual rape and other forms of sexual assault through the first person testimonies, scholarship, spirituality, activism, and cultural work of Black people in the United States. NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia.
By Marshall B. Rosenberg P.H.D.
By David Batstone
Shows how American sports culture has long been a haven for the most reactionary attitudes and ideas, promoting everything from nationalism and militarism to sexism, racism, and homophobia. At the same time, he identifies an equally strong countercurrent, a history of rebel athletes whose high-profile resistance to jingoistic patriotism, heterosexist masculine authority, white male privilege, and other forms of bullying have reverberated beyond the field of play.
By Rachel Simmons
By Tomie dePaola
By Tomie dePaola
By Billie Wright Dziech
By Sara Shandler
From the Illinois Imagines Project
By Pat Vivian and Shana Hormann
Organizational trauma is pervasive across nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and businesses. However, the phenomenon has received scant attention or been misidentified. Much work on organizational trauma ignores the systemic nature of traumatization and the insidious, negative consequences to organizations once trauma becomes embedded in organizational culture. In fact, organizational trauma and traumatization seriously harm organizations; impacts may be drastic and long lasting.
The book describes the inherent influence of organizational work on organizational patterns and culture and connects that influence to trauma and traumatization. It introduces a framework to analyze organizational realities in broad and deep ways and strategies to avoid or mitigate danger of traumatization as well as improve organizational health and sustainability.
By Roy Simmons
By Gloria Steinem
In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was the driving force behind Title IX, the landmark legislation that transformed women’s opportunities in higher education and athletics.
By Howard Zinn
When a man with AIDS is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
Leading anti-porn feminist and scholar Gail Dines argues that the dominant images and stories disseminated by the multibillion-dollar pornography industry produce and reproduce a gender system that undermines equality and encourages violence against women.
By Joy Degruy Leary Ph. D.
A recording of Dr. Joy DeGruy in Mount Vernon, New York. Dr. DeGruy traces the history of African Americans from slavery through their virtual re-enslavement by Peonage, Black Codes, Convict Lease and Jim Crow segregation to contemporary problems facing African Americans today. ( has supplimentary Book and Study Guide)
By Michael A. Messner
By Laura Lederer & Richard Delgado
By Allan G. Johnson
By Naomi Wolf
By Gavin De Becker
In a wide-ranging analysis that moves from 'purity balls' and the abstinence movement to right-wing attacks on Planned Parenthood and women's reproductive health care, Valenti targets the persistent patriarchal assumption that men know what's best for women -- and that a woman's worth depends on what she does, or does not do, sexually.
By Monique W. Morris
By Sarah Deer
By Dan Kindlon Ph. D. & Samantha Phillips
By Jenna Arnold
White women are one of the most influential demographics in America—we are the largest voting bloc, with purchasing power that exceeds anybody else’s, and when we unify to demand change, we are a force to be reckoned with.
Yet, so many of us sit idly on the sidelines, opting out of raising our hands to do, learn, and engage in ways that could make a difference. Why? White American women are no monolith. Yet, as Women’s March national organizer Jenna Arnold has learned over the past few years criss-crossing the US in conversations with white women about their identity and role in the country, we do possess common characteristics—ones that get in the way of us becoming more engaged as citizens. We're so focused on checking off our to-do lists, or so afraid of getting it wrong, or so busy trying to avoid conflict, that we are actively avoiding the urgent conversations we need to have.
Raising Our Hands is the reckoning cry for white women. It asks us to step up and join the new frontlines of the fight against complacency—in our homes, in our behaviors, and in our own minds.
This documentary explores the meaning, severity, and consequences of rape. It looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that make this human rights outrage the most under-reported crime in America.
Examines how cultural attitudes shape the outcomes of rape and sexual assault cases. Drawing on years of experience prosecuting sex crimes, Munch shows how rape cases often turn on the involvement of an 'unnamed conspirator' -- the complex of myths and stories we tell ourselves as a culture about sex, gender, power, and responsibility.
By Heather M. Gray & Samantha Phillips
By Susan Estrich
By Patricia Easteal & Louise McOrmond-Plummer
On September 4, 2003 the Prison Rape Elimination Act was signed into law. All confinement institutions – public and private – community corrections, jails, prisons, police lockups – housing adult and juvenile offenders are accountable to this new federal law. Includes a “Resource Disk” that contains a facilitator’s guide for “Responding to Prisoner Rape,” an overview of PREA presentation, a bibliography, and a copy of the law itself.
This DVD addresses the need for the victim services field to work in partnership with providers of services to immigrants and other allied practitioners to better serve victims of human trafficking. It is targeted to traditional victim service providers with the aim of helping them expand their existing skills and resources to serve trafficking victims.
By Dominique DuBois Gilliard
In Rethinking Incarceration Dominique Gilliard explores the history and foundation of mass incarceration, examining Christianity’s role in its evolution and expansion. He assesses our nation’s ethic of meritocratic justice in light of Scripture and exposes the theologies that embolden mass incarceration. Gilliard then shows how Christians can pursue justice that restores and reconciles, offering creative solutions and highlighting innovative interventions. God’s justice is ultimately restorative, not just punitive. Discover how Christians can participate in the restoration and redemption of the incarceration system.
By Mary Pipher Ph. D.
By INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
From The Sidran Press
By Jenny Lynn Anderson
By Saul D. Alinsky
By Juana Bordas
By Ellery Akers
Filmmaker Angela Shelton journeys across the United States meeting other Angela Sheltons in an effort to survey women in the U.S. She discovers that 24 out of 40 Angela Sheltons have been raped, beaten, or molested—25 if she includes herself. The filmmaker’s survey of women becomes a journey of self discovery during which she finally decides to confront her past and her own father.
Based on a real life story. Paulinita is a child that apparently has everything but the main thing she’s missing is the love and attention of her parents. Her uncle takes advantage of this and sexually assault her multiple times. She began experiencing flash backs about the abuse as an adult and after having her own daughter.
Edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, George Lipsitz
Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position.
This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.
Frontline presents a unique hidden-camera look at the world of sexual slavery, talking with traffickers and their victims, and exposing the government indifference that allows the abuses to continue virtually unchecked. The film also follows the remarkable journey of one man determined to find his trafficked wife by posing as a trafficker himself to buy back her freedom.
By Siddharth Kara
By Michael A. Messner Ph. D. & Donald F. Sabo Ph. D.
This Documentary explores what radical transformation of culture means for young people, parents, and our very notions of childhood. Palmer interviews researchers who have been tracking how the accelerating pressure to be sexy – and sexual – is changing kids’ behavior and undermining their health.
By Christopher Kilmartin
From WCASA
This training video features interviews with survivors, victim advocates, forensic medical professionals, law enforcement officers, and prosecutors to acquaint viewers with the benefits of the multidisciplinary SART response.
Career prosecutor Anne Munch examines how societal attitudes influence legal cases involving sexual assault, demonstrating how rape cases frequently turn on the involvement of what she calls an “unnamed conspirator” – the complex of myths and stories we tell ourselves as a culture about sex, gender, power, and responsibility.
By Jennifer S Hirsch and Shamus Khan
Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life, and what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study to date of sexual assault on campus, Jennifer S Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault's social roots, based on the powerful concepts of "sexual projects," "sexual citizenship," and "sexual geographies." Empathetic, insightful, and far-ranging, Sexual Citizens transforms our understanding of sexual assault and offers a roadmap for how to address it.
By Catharine A. MacKinnon
By Mary L. Boland
By Wendy Maltz
By Allen J. Ottens & Kathy Hotelling
By Karin Melberg Schweir & Dave Hingsburger
By Kelly Vates
Shot by high school students, this film tells the harrowing story of three teens, all the victims of sexual abuse. It is shot in 3 separate vignettes and shows that sexual victimization crosses all ages, genders, and race.
By Kevin & Ron Soodalter
By Diane E. Levin Ph.D & Jean Kilbourne ED. D
By Ijeoma Oluo
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy — from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans — has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair — and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to “model minorities” in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
By Patricia McCormick
Part of the Connect with Kids Series. This program helps teens identify the risks that can occur in dating, including the psychological assault that is not uncommon among that age group.
By Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
From the Hardy Girls Healthy Women and SPARK Movement
By Laurie Halsie Anderson
This program features a dramatization of sexual assault on a college campus, testimonies from survivors about their assaults, and discussions by experts in the field. The scenes and experts highlight the prevalence of sexual assault during freshman year, ways to be more aware and help friends, bystander effectiveness, alcohol use, consent issues, trust of one’s instincts, feelings of guilt, issues of trauma and recovery, and ways to support friends who have been assaulted.
By K.L. Randis
Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors.
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
By Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America, and inspires hope for an antiracist future. It takes you on a race journey from then to now, shows you why we feel how we feel, and why the poison of racism lingers. It also proves that while racist ideas have always been easy to fabricate and distribute, they can also be discredited.
From the Wisconsin Clearinghouse for Prevention Resources
From girls confronting media messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren’t gay, this fascinating array of students opens up with brave, intimate honesty about the toll that deeply held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on all our lives.
From Groundspark
By Chip Heath & Dan Heath
By Laura Lederer
By Patricia Weaver Francisco
By Naomi Ardea
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
The Boy Game tackles bullying among boys at its core:the culture of toughness and silence boys live by. Targets need to be protected, absolutely, but rather than vilify bullies, The Boy Game looks to unpack the the complex dynamics that lead some boys to bully and the majority to stand watching in silent conflict.
Examines how American culture bombards boys and men with sexist and misogynistic messages. Looks at the ways these messages short-circuit young men's ability to empathize with women, respect them as equals, and take feminism seriously.
By Neil Irvin Painter
Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events. 70 black-and-white illustrations
A powerful documentary about the terrible personal reality of rape and sexual violence, and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault often gets framed and understood in the wider culture.
This film examines how media violence feeds a fear-charged cultural environment that cultivates a heightened state of insecurity, exaggerated perceptions of risk and danger, and an appetite for hard line and repressive political solutions to social problems
By New Harbinger Publications
By Anneliese A Singh
The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you’ll discover the building blocks to creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.
explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African-American women. Valerius surveys the dominant white, light-skinned, and thin ideals of beauty that circulate in the culture, from fashion magazines to film and music video, and talks with African-American girls and women about how these images affect the way they see themselves.
By Martin Moran
By Amber Smith
By Tiffany Jewell
Within these pages, there is space to learn and grow through more than 50 activities centered around identity, history, disruption, self-care, privilege, art, expression, and much more. Write, draw, color, and create to understand how you are growing into your anti-racist self and dive further into the work.
By Mark Engler and Paul Engler
By Mark Hunter
In this spellbinding lecture, the author of the bestselling White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a powerful inside-out look at race and racism in America, surveying the damage white privilege has done not only to people of color, but to white people themselves.
By Rebecca Walker
By Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd
Educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States.
Update of Tough Guise. Jackson Katz argues that the ongoing epidemic of men's violence in America is rooted in our inability as a society to move beyond outmoded ideals of manhood.
By US Department of State
From the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
By Howard Zehr
By Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, & Martha Roth
By Judith Lewis Herman M.D
By Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk
A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness we so desperately need if we are to benefit humankind, other living things, and the planet itself.
In Trauma Stewardship, we are called to meet these challenges in an intentional way. Lipsky offers a variety of simple and profound practices, drawn from modern psychology and a range of spiritual traditions, that enable us to look carefully at our reactions and motivations and discover new sources of energy and renewal. She includes interviews with successful trauma stewards from different walks of life and even uses New Yorker cartoons to illustrate her points.
Trust starts in a theater as a group of teenage actors receive a standing ovation, then takes us back to the beginning, when an 18-year old Hondurena tells the company a story about her life that involves rape and incest.
Incarcerated sex offenders explain and demonstrate the kinds of deception they used to deflect accusations of sexual abuse, often for decades, before finally being caught. In addition, the sex offenders discuss how they set up and lived a double life, posing in public as kind and responsible members of the community while raping and molesting in private.
Estimates are that 20 percent of all men serving in US prisons have been raped. This film looks at the social system within prisons that allows this violent sexual behavior to occur.
By Emmanuel Acho
How can I have white privilege if I’m not wealthy?
When does style become cultural appropriation?
If Black people can say the N‑word, why can’t I?
In this book, Emmanuel Acho creates a dialogue that is honest, straightforward, and accessible to those seeking answers. This is a conversation that needs to happen to mend the racial divide in our world.
By Rita Loyd
This lecture by Standford University’s Paula England, a leading researcher in the sociology of gender, aims to clarify what’s actually going on. England mobilizes a wealth of data – illustrated with highly accessible motion graphics – to begin to chart whether hooking up represents some kind of fundamental change, or whether we’re simply seeing age-old gender patterns dressed up in new social forms.
The number of women who have been victims of rape vastly outnumbers the number of men indicted, much less convicted, of rape. Who are these “undetected” rapists? The research on undetected rapists shows the same pattern as is found among incarcerated rapists: a small number of men commit the majority of crimes.
By Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross,& Elena R. Gutierrez
From Boys Town Press
A documentary series that sheds light on mounting evidence of how inequities in the rest of our lives can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Solutions lie not in more pills but in more equitable social policies.
By Grant Watkins
By Paul Kivel
Stalkers often use technology – such as global positioning systems, computer spyware, and cell phones – to track their victims and evade the police. In this award-winning, 15-minute video designed to train law enforcement and educate communities, a stalking victim tells her story and experts describe how to work with victims of stalking.
Through this video, educators and youth-serving professionals will visit Men of Strength Club and Men Creating Change meetings to learn how dominant stories and counter stories of masculinity can help young men play a role in constructing a world free of violence against women and girls - a world that will benefit us all.
By Olga Phoenix, MPA
This training DVD will acquaint law enforcement and protective services professionals with additional principles and techniques to use when conducting an indepth forensic interview with a victim of crime with a cognitive and/or communication disability.
By Carolyn M. West PH. D
By Ann W. Burgess
By Bill Berkham
By Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove
From tragedy to triumph, inspiring lessons unfold in this one of a kind Audio/Book pairing by 12 survivors of sexual assault. An eye-opening journal of personal growth and recovery, Voices of Courage will forever change your perspective on life after a sexual assault.
By Debby Irving
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived ideas about race. She also explains why and how she's changed the way she talks about racism, works in racially mixed groups, and understands the antiracism movement as a whole. Exercises at the end of each chapter prompt readers to explore their own racialized ideas. Waking Up White's personal narrative is designed to work well as a rapid read, a book group book, or support reading for courses exploring racial and cultural issues.
War Zone is an excellent discussion starter for both men and women. It gives voice and expression to a disturbing daily aspect of being a woman in this society. It also gives men a direct personal feeling for what harassing behavior looks and feels like to a woman. Young men who may think such behavior is cool or funny will be forced to rethink their assumptions.
64 women, representing a cross section of cultures in America, came together to share their experiences of oppression through the lens of race.
Eleven girls aged 8 to 16 from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds and two classrooms of middle and high school students were interviewed about their views on media culture and its impact on their lives. Their insightful and provocative responses provide the central theme of the film, a half-hour examination of how the media presents girls.
From Prevent Child Abuse America
An exploration of the role that world religions have played in violence against women, as well as the role they play in eliminating that violence.
By Constance M. Ostis MSW
By Connie May Fowler
By Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
(Available in hardcover and paperback)
Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin’s killer went free, Patrisse’s outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi.
Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin.
Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love to tell the country―and the world―that Black Lives Matter.
By Kathryn Brohl
This is the thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide for families of children who have been molested. First published in 1988, this new edition includes current research and information on the nature and effects of molestation on boys and girls, as well as proven techniques for therapy, healing, and recovery. Using everyday language, the authors provide information, comfort, and advice on how to put the pieces back together again after a child has been sexually molested.
By Judith H. Katz
Originally designed for facilitators as a training handbook complete with exercises and tools to assist white people address racism, this book guides white people through the process of understanding, challenging, and confronting issues of racism. This training program provides a meaningful way to help create change in the white community.
Responding to the challenge of creating a learning environment in which to address racism, White Awareness provides a detailed step-by-step guide through six stages of learning – from awareness to action. The exercises within each of the stages focus on key themes including: defining racism and its inconsistencies, confronting the reality of racism, exploring aspects and implications of white culture and identity, understanding cultural differences and examining cultural racism, analyzing individual racism, and developing action strategies to combat racism.
By Maurice Berger
Berger juxtaposes a series of brilliant short takes about the politics of race with personal and often disturbing vignettes about his own racial coming-of-age. These, in turn, are amplified by other voices and points of view: the words of ordinary people coping with fears and anxieties about race, and passages deftly drawn from the work of James Baldwin, Roland Barthes, Toni Morrison, and other writers. Berger has become a passionate observer of race matters, searching out the subtle and not-so-subtle manifestations of racial meaning in everyday life. In White Lies, he encourages us to reckon with our own complex and often troubling opinions about race.
White Like Me shows how white privilege continues to shape individual attitudes, electoral politics, and government policy in ways too many white people never stop to think about.
By Annette Simmons
Stories have tremendous power. They can persuade, promote empathy, and provoke action. Better than any other communication tool, stories explain who you are, what you want...and why it matters. In presentations, department meetings, over lunch-any place you make a case for new customers, more business, or your next big idea-you'll have greater impact if you have a compelling story to relate. Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins will teach you to narrate personal experiences as well as borrowed stories in a way that demonstrates authenticity, builds emotional connections, inspires perseverance, and stimulates the imagination. Fully updated and more practical than ever, the second edition reveals how to use storytelling to: Capture attention * Motivate listeners * Gain trust * Strengthen your argument * Sway decisions * Demonstrate authenticity and encourage transparency * Spark innovation * Manage uncertainty * And more Complete with examples, a proven storytelling process and techniques, innovative applications, and a new appendix on teaching storytelling, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins hands you the tools you need to get your message across-and connect successfully with any audience.
By Lundy Bancroft
You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and change your life. In Why Does He Do That? you will learn about:
• The early warning signs of abuse
• The nature of abusive thinking
• Myths about abusers
• Ten abusive personality types
• The role of drugs and alcohol
• What you can fix, and what you can’t
• And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely
By Charlotte Zolotow
More than anything, William wants a doll. “Don’t be a creep,” says his brother. “Sissy, sissy,” chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William’s wish, and make it easy for others to understand, too. William gets a doll, so he can learn to be a loving parent someday.
Written by beloved author Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Newbery Medal-winning author and Caldecott Honor Book illustrator William Pène du Bois, William’s Doll was published in 1972 and was one of the first picture books to deal with gender stereotypes.
An inside look at the culture of sexual harassment and bullying widespread among many teens today, this unique and compelling program examines the price that adolescents, especially girls, pay to be cool, hip and popular in our brave new wired world. Includes 3 interactive classroom modules.
By Lori B. Girshick
By Jan Goff-LaFontaine
By Peggy Reeves Sanday
By Angela Y. Davis
By Michael Gurian
Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force.
By Veraunda Jackson
Do you have a vision for your life? Is it a vision that could totally change your life if you had enough faith and courage to pursue your passion? Are you afraid of stepping out of your comfort zone? What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Would you stop settling? Join Veraunda in an enlightening conversation as she shares how you can tap into your unlimited possibilities.