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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 窪蹋勛圖厙 of 窪蹋勛圖厙.Organizers of the emphasize that addressing systemic inequities and contributing to racial healing involve a process of proactive individual actions and strategies we practice over a lifetime.
Here are five actions you can take now.
1. View or listen to a session you missed
There were 80 featured sessions and workshops on topics ranging from environmental justice to transgender rights, health equity and more. Recordings of all sessions are available on the .
2. Do some internal work and then share with others
Anneliese Singh, who describes racial healing as an inside job presented steps from her book, The Racial Healing Handbook,in the final event of the Diversity Forum, on Thursday, July 29.
Singh, chief diversity officer at Tulane 窪蹋勛圖厙 and a scholar who has researched the resilience developed by trans and non-binary people in resisting discrimination, suggests that one of the most healing things you can do following the Diversity Forum is to go back into your unit or workplace and discuss how you are changing it moving forward. Some of her tips include:
- Know your own racial identity
- Explore your internalized racism
- (Re)learn the history of racism
- Grieve and name racism
- Raise your race-consciousness (Pitts Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion offers a )
- Catch yourself in the flow of racism
- Understand racism in relationships
- Reclaim your whole racial self
- Be a racial ally
- Engage in collective racial healing
3. Join aracial healing circle online or in your community
Racial healing is the need to acknowledge and tell the truth about past wrongs created by individual and systemic racism andaddress the present consequences. Its a process and a tool that can facilitate trust and build authentic relationships that bridge divides created by real and perceived differences. For those affiliated with Pitt, the 窪蹋勛圖厙 offers the Intergroup Dialogue Community Collaborative. Its mission is to create a space and community to bring together diverse people to engage in sustained and intentional dialogue for a shared vision of social justice. Participants practice communicating across differences, addressing conflicts and building capacity for social change. Email the intergroup [at] pitt.edu to learn more or join.
4. Read about the history of racism
Consider one of these award-winning books edited or written by Diversity Forum panelists:
- Anthony Ray Hinton, author of The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
- Pitt Associate Professor of History Keisha N. Blain, who edited Four Hundred Souls with Ibram X. Kendi
- Simon Tam, author of Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court
5. Keep learning
The 窪蹋勛圖厙 of 窪蹋勛圖厙 will offer several opportunities open to the public in the fall of 2021, including the . The initiative, which recognizes the diversity of the community and the value of Black lives and Black art in particular, will include an outdoor art exhibition and programming for 窪蹋勛圖厙 students and the community.
The 窪蹋勛圖厙 of 窪蹋勛圖厙s will also host the Black Study Intensive this fall, which offers educational programs, creative sessions and performances for students and the public.
Mark your calendar for the Oct. 5-7, 2021, Wit(h)ness: A CAAPP Black Study on Intimacy. Featured presenters will include Cyrus Cassels, bestselling authors Elizabeth Acevedo and Kiese Laymon, artists Phoebe Boswell, Helga Davis, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, film producer and director Naima Ramos-Chapman and others.
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