Anti-oppression
We love AORTA! Check them out! Better yet, hire them for consulting or workshops in your community!
AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training, and planning. We base our work on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression.
Helpful Readings from AORTA:
*For your perusal and printing, remember to get AORTA’s consent before distributing*
On combating cultural appropriation
On recognizing oppression (good beginner’s guide!)
How oppressive practices can manifest on our communities
2006 UC Davis Reorientation Guide
A guide to what it’s REALLY like to experience UC Davis.
Mental Health
Check out the Icarus Project
Zine Distros
Get yourself some free learnin’!
Accessibility
The Development Without Displacement Report, on resisting gentrification by Causa Justa in the Bay Area
This American Life: House Rules. 11/22/2013. Great show on racial discrimination in housing in the US, historical and today
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard. Book that dispels the myths that co-op history is white dominated, or that People of Color have not been participating in co-ops.
On sobriety as accessibility, particular to queer/non-normative spaces
Substance use
Essays by Clementine Morgan: “Community, Accessibility, and Sober Spaces” & “Drinking The Glue That Holds Us Together”
A review for the zine “Filling the Void: Interviews about Quitting Drinking and Using.” This zine is available for loan through the SCHA Staff, or can be purchased here for $4.50.
And here’s a Tumblr page on the theme of Queer Sobriety Support
On intoxication culture and sobriety as an accessibility issue, especially in queer spaces
Conflict Resolution
NASCO Conflict Resolution Video
Conflict Resolution Skill Development
Additional Social Justice Resources
White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun
Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
White Fragility Is Racial Violence by Amelia Shroyer
28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors by Debra Leigh
Calling In: A Quick Guide on When and How by Sian Ferguson
Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable by Editors of Black Girl Dangerous