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The Freelancer’s Guide to Getting Paid on Time
Freelancers Union
Covers strategies including creating a contract, practicing prompt invoicing, pressuring clients to pay, filing a complaint, and taking legal action to ensure payment.
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Disrupting Harm in Dance
Whistle While You Work
Disrupting Harm in Dance is a curriculum as much about reimagining the future as it is about the practices and tools that can be implemented immediately by anyone or any institution. This is an online self-directed course offering information and tools for dancers, performers, and adjacent professionals to work more safely together.
Published January 10, 2024Accessibility + Disability JusticeAdvocacyHealth & WellnessJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeSexual + Gender-Based ViolenceToolkit/Guide -
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Making Participatory Budgeting Work: The Equity Imperative
Nonprofit Quarterly
In participatory budgeting, community members decide together how public funds are allocated and spent in their communities. This article talks through the processes, challenges, and opportunities of PB.
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Territory Acknowledgement
Native Land Digital
Territory acknowledgement is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This is often done at the beginning of ceremonies, lectures, or any public event. It can be a subtle way to recognize the history of colonialism and a need for change in settler colonial societies.
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The Case for Reparations
Ta Nehisi-Coates
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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The Dancers Amplified Podcast
The Dancers Amplified Podcast
The Dancers Amplified podcast is a platform where dancers’ voices are heard. We seek to center the marginalized and amplify the voices of those that have been suppressed for far too long. Our work is as alive as the lives it affects. We are motivators and activators leading the dance world towards an equitable, diverse, and inclusive future, accessible and benefitting all.
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The Diversity Style Guide
The Diversity Style Guide
The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity. The guide contains more than 700 terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography.
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The Limitations Of An Anti-Racist Reading List
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour
What is an anti-racist reading list for? We talk with Lauren Michele Jackson, an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, and the author of White Negroes, about the limitations of such listshttps://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html
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The Social Change Ecosystem Map
Deepa Iyer
The Social Change Ecosystem Map is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align with social change values, individual roles, and the broader ecosystem.
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The Wildcat Manual for Tactical Self-Enfranchisement
Wildcat!
This document serves as a behavioral and ideological reference point, to which individuals might turn to in moments of decreased economic productivity and increased precarity. We hope to create across “collars,” fields, and classes, creating agency among groups which remain mostly underrepresented.
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White Supremacy Culture
Tema Okun
This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article White Supremacy Culture originally written and published in 1999.
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Whiteness Project
Whitney Dow
Whiteness Project is conducting interviews with people from all walks of life and localities in which they are asked about their relationship to, and their understanding of, their own whiteness. Each video interview is paired with a statistic that provides a greater societal context and offers an opportunity for self-reflection by the audience on their own thoughts about race.
Published April 1, 2016Justice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeResearchWhite Allies + InstitutionsWebsite