DWR Resource Library

The DWR Resource Library is a comprehensive and searchable database of resources and tools for dance workers and entities covering a wide array of topics.

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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.

    Accessibility + Disability JusticeAdvocacyHealth & WellnessJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeSexual + Gender-Based Violence
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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.

    AdvocacyJustice Equity & Inclusion
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    Know Your Voting Rights: For People with Mental Disabilities

    National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association

    We have created a brochure aimed at informing persons, especially persons with mental disabilities, of their voting rights, protections, and options! Translated versions of the brochure are available in Chinese, Hindi, Ilocano, Korean, Marshallese, Tagalog, Tongan, and Vietnamese.

    Accessibility + Disability JusticeAdvocacyJustice Equity & Inclusion
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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.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial Justice
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    Working on a National Plan for Reparations

    NowThis

    H.R. 40 could help make reparations for Black Americans a reality on a national scale — here’s what you need to know about the landmark bill and where it stands.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial Justice
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    Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

    Nkechi Taifa / American Civil Liberties Union

    I have been in the reparations movement for nearly 50 years, and I’ve never been more optimistic about its chances for success.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial Justice
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    Ta-Nehisi Coates’ full opening statement on reparations at House hearing

    PBS Newshour

    Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.” Coates told lawmakers that many of the inequalities created by slavery persist today, including in the form of economic and health disparities.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial Justice
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    H.R. 40 Is Not a Symbolic Act. It’s a Path to Restorative Justice.

    Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee / American Civil Liberties Union

    By passing H.R. 40, Congress can start a movement toward the national reckoning we need to bridge racial divides.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial Justice
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    Intersectionality Matters!

    Kimberlé Crenshaw and African American Policy Forum

    Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of Critical Race Theory.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial JusticeSexual + Gender-Based Violence
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    ‘Why We Can’t Wait’ Coalition Statement Urges U.S. Congress to Pass HR 40, Reparations Bill

    Human Rights Watch

    HR 40 would establish a commission to investigate the legacy of slavery and its ongoing harms as well as come up with proposals to Congress for redress and repair.

    AdvocacyBlack + African DiasporaJustice Equity & InclusionRacial Justice
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    ‘Staying Nonpartisan Guidelines for 501c3 Voter Engagement Activities’ Webinar

    Nonprofit VOTE

    Joined by speaker David Levitt, Principal at Adler & Colvin, throughout this webinar we discussed what is considered to be nonpartisan, what activities are acceptable, and provided further IRS guidance on tax-exempt voter engagement.

    AdvocacyLegal
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    Writers Against the War on Gaza

    An educational resource and FAQs on the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

    AdvocacyArab + SWANAJustice Equity & InclusionLegalRacial Justice

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