Health and Self-Care for Artists
Anti-Racism Guides + Discussions
This resource page contains just a few of the many resources that exist on this incredibly important topic. If you have additional resources you’d like to share, please let us know.
Resource Guides
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Stop AAPI Hate Resource Guide
Complied by the Asian American Arts Alliance
The Asian American Arts Alliance is dedicated to strengthening Asian American artists and cultural groups through resource sharing, promotion, and community building. Learn more about our mission and history.
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Asian American Support Resources
Google Doc updated regularly to document anti-Asian crimes and incidents and how to help. Shared with us by the Asian American Arts Alliance.
Author: Chloe Shih, [email protected]
Editor(s): Alfred Lam (Send Chinatown Love – NYC), Laura-Ann Chong (Canada), Emma Koh, Robert Yu, Irene Li, Rosie Chu, Carrie Xu, Leonard Adler, Priscilla Son (Asian American Arts Alliance, NYC)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKLjh26g5vkuCVDnLeS5X4ElgT7Q1uT8ihlqQefP-no/edit?usp=sharing
Black Lives Matter Toolkits
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
Their downloadable toolkits include:
- Healing Action Toolkit
- Chapter Conflict Resolution Toolkit
- Healing Justice Toolkit
- and more.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/resources/
Racial Equity Tools
Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. It offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large. We curate resources that use language and analysis reflecting an understanding of systemic racism, power, and privilege and are accessible on-line and free to users.
https://www.racialequitytools.org/act/strategies/organizational-change-processes
Resource Guide for Indigenous Solidarity Funding Projects
shared by Catalyst Project
This guide offers lessons and guidelines to support non Native groups and people who seek to move resources to Indigenous Peoples through solidarity funding projects that directly support Indigenous sovereignty.
Compiled by the Indigenous Solidarity Network and representatives from the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust/Shuumi Land Tax, Real Rent Duwamish, and the Manna-hatta Fund.
Catalyst Project helps to build powerful multiracial movements that can win collective liberation. In the service of this vision, we organize, train and mentor white people to take collective action to end racism, war and empire, and to support efforts to build power in working-class communities of color.
https://collectiveliberation.org/resource-guide-for-indigenous-solidarity-funding-projects/
Articles + Conversations
NPQ Article Dear Philanthropy: These Are the Fires of Anti-Black Racism
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/dear-philanthropy-these-are-the-fires-of-anti-black-racism/
VIDEO: Matching Minorities//Doubtful Doubles: A Conversation on Institutionalized Racism, Tokenism, Microaggressions, and Inclusion vs. Optics in the Art World
Courtesy of the 2020 Common Field Virtual Convening, April 25, 2020
An archived virtual conversation from Common Field 2020 on institutionalized racism, tokenism, microaggressions, and inclusion vs. optics in the art world. Featuring Jen Delos Reyes (Open Engagement), Lisa Yun Lee (National Public Housing Museum), and Astria Suparak (Independent curator and artist).
This session also included a participatory discussion among the presenters and attendees, which took place contemporaneously in Zoom’s chat function. The chat portion has been broken out into these two resources:
1. Tips for Anti-Racist Allyship in the Art World and Academy (PDF)
2. Racist Scenarios & Solutions (PDF)
Additional Organizations to follow
Center for Artistic Activism
The Center for Artistic Activism helps people use their creativity and culture to effect power.
For the basics of artistic activism check out their Fundamentals webinars, free online training courses teaching the fundamentals of artistic activism, or listen to their Creative Resistance Podcast Mini-series.
Don’t let COVID-19 slow down your movement. Don’t Cancel: Creative Activism and Coronavirus shows how we can creatively adapt activism and advocacy campaigns to keep social connection while maintaining physical distance. Tons of more free resources available on their resource page.
Center for the Healing of Racism
Center for the Healing of Racism’s mission is to facilitate the healing of racism through education and dialogue in a safe and supportive environment, in order to empower individuals and transform communities.
Through education and dialogue in a safe, supportive environment, their programs are designed to heal the hurts caused by racism, empower individuals to become agents of change, and transform communities. Can’t come to Houston? Engage the Center to conduct these workshops (or a custom workshop) at your workplace, faith community, school, or community organization. For more information visit their website.
https://www.centerhealingracism.org/
School of Unity & Liberation (SOUL)
SOUL was founded in 1996 in the midst of a California youth movement that brought thousands of young people of color out into the streets for the first time, fighting for educational equity and against criminalization at the ballot box and beyond. Inspired by the example of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, an organizer training center at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, SOUL started as an institution dedicated to developing the skills of local youth organizers. Two decades later we have trained over 10,000 people and our popular education curriculum has been used to train thousands more. SOUL has convened organizers of all ages in neighborhoods near and far and built new capacity in hundreds of organizations. We are honored to strengthen the fights that win justice for our communities and to contribute to building the movements that will win liberation for our people.
http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org/soul_sec/resources/re-free_training.html
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