ANTI-RACISM & BLM RESOURCES:
(Please email us to submit resources)

Update 07/29/23: Sorry it's been a while since we've updated our resources. We are currently going through a transitional period. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on current opportunities and resources, as well as get notified on how we plan to restructure our resources moving forward. Thank you for your patience!


UPDATED 1/22/22

• 28 Days of Black History (2021) Virtual Exhibition

• NATIONAL RESOURCE LIST -- MINNEAPOLIS UPRISING & BEYOND

• BLM RESOURCE DOC
• ANTI-RACISM RESOURCE FOR WHITE PEOPLE
• THE GREAT UNLEARN
• CALIFORNIANS FOR THE ARTS ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
• RESOURCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND BEYOND ON ANTI-RACISM

SHAREABLE GRAPHICS:

• FREE Downloadable Posters by R.I.S.E. Indigenous
• Racism in the Arts
• FREE Downloadable Poster by CrimethInc (Collab with Bandilang Itim)
  
  

READINGS:

• bell hooks Reading List
• Reimagining the Museum with a Native Lens
• Movie Stars and Anti-Filipino Race Riots: The Secret History of San Francisco's Macintosh Studios
• How Two Artists’ Transformation of a Portland Museum May Provide a Blueprint for Larger Institutions
• The Future Came and Went: A.R. Kane Interviewed
  (for you shoegaze fans!)
• Crowd Control and Riot Manual
• Decentering Whiteness in the Museum
  By Steph Littlebird Fogel
• Global List of Black-Owned/Founded Museums, Art Galleries, and Spaces
• Little Noticed, Filipino-Americans Are Dying of COVID-19 at an Alarming Rate
• Should White People Review Black Art?
• We Want More for Breonna Taylor Than What the System Can Deliver
  Turning Away from Systems of Policing and Punishment Doesn't Mean Turning Away from Accountability

• How Gentrifying Businesses Co-Opted a Black Movement
• What is Juneteenth?
• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
• How Do Museums Uphold White Supremacy?
• The Most Influential Living African-American Artists
• When Black Art Becomes 'Disruptive'
• It's Time to End the Terms 'Slave & Master' in Photography
• Working Towards a Police-Free Minneapolis
• A Phenomenology of Whiteness
• Black Anarchism: A Reader by Black Rose Anarchist Federation
• Goth So White? Black Representation in the Post-Punk Scene
• How Black Soldiers Aided in Philippine 'Independence' & Why it Still Matters Today
• Addressing Anti-Black Microaggressions in Filipino Families
• Staying Safe in the Streets - A Guide by CrimethInc
• FREE E-BOOK: The End of Policing
  
  

WATCH:

• The Linda Lindas - "Racist, Sexist Boy" (Live at LA Public Library) 
• The Chinese Exclusion Act (PBS)
• What Does Punk Have to Do with Basquiat?
• Inside the Historic Swamp Enslaved People Took Refuge In
• Pandemic of Hate: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID-19

• Be Water: What We Can Learn from Hong Kong's Protests​

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