DEI RESOURCES
Welcome to The Jane Club’s list of educational DEI resources - articles, videos, podcasts, trainings and events. The purpose of providing these is to educate Janes on the many facets of DEI. This list will be continually updated with new resources. If you have resources you would like to see added to this list, please email us.
JANE MEMBER RESOURCES
We ask all Janes to read/view these four DEI Resources before entering our space.
GIFs and other digital images are a constant in social media. However, we need to consider what images we are using to express ourselves, and why we choose them. This video explains the concept of digital blackface and how it can cause harm.
The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society.
Using someone’s correct personal pronouns is a way to respect them and create an inclusive environment, just as using a person’s name can be a way to respect them.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Cultural appropriation can be difficult to define and the line between appropriation and appreciation is often very fine, which can make it tempting to hide from the debate all together for fear of getting it wrong. However, understanding cultural appropriation is incredibly important because it allows us to recognise the power that we have as individuals and consumers to push back against discrimination and exploitation.
I asked five DEIB experts for their personally vetted book recommendations for frontline leaders who want to more effectively foster equity, inclusion, and belonging on their teams this year. Here are their suggestions:
2022 was a tough year for anti-trans legislation, but a lot of good things happened too. Countless bills were beaten and rights were advanced across the globe. Here are the victories!
In truth, all levels of racism have to be dismantled to achieve justice and liberation. But that might be hard to witness if the discourse only shows one type. Let’s look at the four types of racism – internalized racism, interpersonal racism, institutional racism, and structural racism – to understand how it persists in society entirely (Race Forward).
In this talk, attorney Tiffany Alvoid lays out how micro-aggresions manifest, the role you play, and what you can do to avoid perpetuating them.
Alok Vaid-Menon, a nonbinary writer, performer, public speaker, activist and artist, has done a lot of work to interrogate their history, our collective history, and to probe beneath the surface of what we’ve come to accept as the norm. They challenge us all to use our imagination to re-wire what we believe is possible for ourselves and society around us.
This podcast discusses several ways in which we can build for inclusivity within our products, communities, and teams by designing for neurodiversity.
Social media makes it easy for those who don’t want to hear the truth.
In 2013 Matika Wilbur took on a project of massive scope: to photograph members of each Federally recognized tribe in the United States. "My dream," Wilbur says, "is that our children are given images that are more useful, truthful, and beautiful."
Diversity advocate Verna Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable.
Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
A general glossary of language used within the LGBTQ community, however it’s not intended to be all-inclusive nor is it a prescriptive guide for LGBTQ people. There is no one way to be LGBTQ, nor is there one way to describe LGBTQ people.
Words matter. Words that reflect racial or other discriminatory bias are contrary to the values of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Here's how to be an ally to women of color.
Too often whites at discussions on race decide for themselves what will be discussed, what they will hear, what they will learn. And it is their space. All spaces are.
More companies are jumping on the rainbow bandwagon during Pride Month, while also supporting anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and marginalizing their own LGBTQ+ employees. Here are some tips on what to look for and how to hold them accountable.
DEI TRAININGS
The Jane Club offers DEI 101 workshops as a part of the Jane Club membership. If you are looking to further expand your learning, we would like to suggest these additional courses.
FEE-BASED TRAININGS
UNDOING RACISM COMMUNITY ORGANIZING WORKSHOP Participants will experience a humanistic process for laying a foundation to explore how we have been racialized, socialized, and conditioned to think about race and racism. Presented by The People’s Institute of Survival and Beyond.
LEADING DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION The Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion online short course is for business leaders interested in practical, proven tools and methods for enacting change in the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within their organization. Presented by Northwestern University.
LEADING RACIAL EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN ORGANIZATIONS This four-week course explores the core concepts of racial inequality — namely, its root cause and structural realities — and how these have shaped current-day business practices. You’ll leverage this deeper historical understanding as you translate theory into action, and develop a Racial Equity Action Plan to implement within your own context. Presented by Northwestern University.
ANTI-RACISM FACILITATOR TRAINING This workshop provides you access to 4 lengthy online, live webinars. The training all support white folk in taking a close, hard look at their own intersection with privilege and oppression. With a focus on how their lack of pigmentation has impacted their personal and family opportunities. We will explore the commonly felt discomfort when talking about race and practice feeling that discomfort in order to better our understanding of complex societal racism as well as our own contributions to oppression. Presented by ASPECC - Advocating for Sex Positive Education & Consent Culture
BUILDING ACCEPTANCE Society is so intolerant of marginalized communities. How can we build acceptance, and how is that different from tolerance? At what point is tolerance a problem? Presented by ASPECC - Advocating for Sex Positive Education & Consent Culture
SOCIAL JUSTICE 101 Social Justice is the movement to create equal access to all aspects of society for all persons. This means removing the barriers that impact access-not merely by providing support for those who experience barriers due to racism, misogyny, ableism, and other bigoted social norms. Presented by ASPECC - Advocating for Sex Positive Education & Consent Culture
FREE TRAININGS:
RACIALIZED TRAUMA COURSE: This short free course is designed to begin to help people confront the idea of racialized trauma, its impact on it, and how it begins to move through generations. Get a glimpse of the process before going more in-depth with the other courses. Presented by Cultural Somatics Training Institute
CULTURAL SOMATICS TRAINING INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONS OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION OF WORK: How do we create tolerant and just climates at work? Changing the culture of an organization is challenging in the best of circumstances; today, it can seem impossible. Yet, it is more necessary and urgent than ever to address these issues thoughtfully and with effective practices that can produce real change. Six Darden professors have designed this teach-out to bring you the latest scholarship and best practices on diversity, equity and inclusion, and organizational change. Presented by the University of Virginia (via Coursera)
PROJECT IMPLICIT: The mission of Project Implicit is to educate the public about bias and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the internet. This website provides Implicit Association Tests (IAT) on a range of possible topics to gain an understanding of personal biases. Presented by Project Implicit
PRONOUNS AND GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE Pronounce Matter, respecting someone’s pronouns and the preferred name is a basic way to respect a person; conversely, not doing so can cause irreparable harm. Presented by ASPECC - Advocating for Sex Positive Education & Consent Culture
LGBTQIA LITERACY Gender is the degree of feminine/ masculine traits we are assumed to have based on either our sex or our own perception of self. It is subjective and our society has some fairly rigid expectations. Presented by ASPECC - Advocating for Sex Positive Education & Consent Culture
EVENTS & CONFERENCES
Internationally-renowned speakers will bring their unique experiences integrating various diversity and inclusion topics that you can apply to your personal and professional life. Several training offerings will be available during the conference week across foundational, specialty, and leadership topics.
Create a Culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion April 19th, 2023
When employees feel respected and included, organizations thrive. Top organizations find that diverse employees working in a fair, equitable, and inclusive cultures perform better, add new dimensions to product development, develop new avenues to acquire new customers, and drive general innovation. Finding ways to eliminate unconsious bias and incorporate inclusive behaviors in team members is the backbone to an inclusive culture.
The year 2023 marks GIOF Annual Meeting’s fourth consecutive occurrence. The event is designed to bring together the world’s leading diversity and inclusion executives, HR consultants, and DEI activists alongside business owners and managers looking for ways to make their businesses more inclusive and, consequently, more profitable and successful.
DEI Conference: Building a Competitive Advantage June 8-9, 2023
Topics include: Multigenerational Workforces & Work-life Balance, DEI is a Business Imperative, Creating A Safe Space for All: Culture, Bias and Strategies To Get It Right, Effectively Leveraging DEI as a Competitive Edge, Beyond the Binary: Creating True Gender Inclusivity and Managing DEI Fatigue.
Multicultural Women's National Conference Aug 9-10, 2023
At the Multicultural Women’s National Conference, we will assess the status of multicultural women’s advancement today and offer guidance to women of color on how to re-think their career paths and get on track to succeed. The past two years have created new barriers to advancement, but also unique opportunities for women to reimagine their own career development as well as their role in creating workplaces that truly work for them and that are inclusive of women across all dimensions of diversity - including trans and other LGBTQ women, disabled women, veterans, and women of different generations and faiths. It’s time for organizations to (re)invest in their multicultural women to ensure they have the support and tools they need to thrive and lead into the future.