Links for Awareness, Action, and Wellness
► Resource Guide for Students and Postdocs on how to discuss race and inequity in science with their research teams.
► Watch the 2020 UCSF Medals – the University’s highest honor – round table discussion. The Medals were given to three remarkable leaders who have advanced diversity and innovation in their fields through mentorship, including John Watson, who founded the Summer Research Training Program.
Woman Life Freedom
Anti-Asian Xenophobia and COVID19
Coping with Anti-Asian Xenophobia
- Self-Care Tips For Asian Americans Dealing With Racism Amid Coronavirus (Huffington Post)
- Surviving Racism Amidst COVID19 (Medium)
- Anti-Asian Racism is Taking a Mental and Emotional Toll on Me (Self)
- When the US Don't Love You Back: Surviving a Pandemic in a Racist & Xenophobic Society (Abolition Journal)
- A Townhall on Anti-Asian Racism: Race, Struggle, and Solidarity in the Time of a Global Pandemic (The People's Collective for Liberation and Justice)
Responding to Anti-Asian Xenophobia
- Confronting Racism and Supporting Asian American Communities in the Wake of Covid-19 (Urban Institute)
- Asian People are Being Targeted by Racist Attacks. Here's How You Can be an Ally. (Huffington Post)
- Virtual Training and Resources on Bystander Intervention (Hollaback!)
- Report Incidents of Hate Against Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities (Stop AAPI Hate)
Wellness and Self-care
- UCSF Student Health and Counseling Services
- UCSF Faculty and Staff Assistance Program
- NAMI: African American Mental Health
- "Take a Breather" in Resources to Support BLM (in English, Spanish, and Chinese)
- Trauma Processing Resources for BIPOC, by Swell Collective
- Ten Percent Happier LIVE meditation
- Black Lives Matter: Toolkits
- Discrimination: What It Is and How to Cope
- Filling Our Cups: 4 Ways People of Color Can Foster Mental Health and Practice Restorative Healing
- Grief is a Direct Impact of Racism: Eight Ways to Support Yourself
- Healing Justice is How We Can Sustain Black Lives
- Proactively Coping with Racism
- Radical Self-Care in the Face of Mounting Racial Stress
- Racism Recovery Steps
- Tips for Self-Care: When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media is Enough
- We Heal Too (by and for Black women)
- Therapy for Black Girls
- 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
- Thick, and Other Essays (book), by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Emotionally Restorative Self Care: People of Color, Black People, African Americans (video)
- Unpacking & Healing from Collective Trauma
Awareness: Racism and Anti-racist Practices
Articles and Documents
- 1882 Foundation: Civil Rights and the Chinese Exclusion Laws
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- We are Living in a Racism Pandemic
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay – Chances Are They’re Not
- America’s Patchwork Pandemic is Fraying Even Further
- The 1619 Project | New York Times Magazine
- Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue by Shannon Palus | Slate
- Police Killing Black People is a Pandemic, Too by Osagie Obasogie | Washington Post
- America, This is Your Chance by Michelle Alexander | New York Times
- George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America by Ann Crawford-Roberts et al. | Scientific American
- Being Convicted of a Crime has Thousands of Consequences Besides Incarceration – and Some Last a Lifetime | The Conversation
- America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us by Adam Serwer | Atlantic
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic
- Stolen Breaths by Rachel Hardeman, Eduardo Medina, and Rhea Boyd | New England Journal of Medicine
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic
- Black People Need Stronger White Allies — Here’s How You Can Be One, from Refinery 29
- Detour-Spotting for White Antiracists, Jona Olsson
- Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders
- Expressive Writing Prompts to Use if You’ve Been Accused of White Fragility, Spiritual Bypassing, or White Privilege
- How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism | The Atlantic
- Talking About Race: Being Antiracist
- Resources from the Othering and Belonging Institute to navigate this moment, 2020 uprising
- Differences Matter Reading List (compiled by the UCSF School of Medicine)
- Black Lives Matter and Disability, by Black, Disabled, and Proud: College Students with Disabilities
- Black Disabled Lives Matter: We Can't Erase Disability in #BLM, by Sarah Kim | Teen Vogue
- Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation, John Lewis (the civil rights leader who died July 17, 2020) | New York Times
- In the fight for racial justice, Native stories should not be ignored, by Ivan Natividad | Berkeley News
- The Impact of COVID-19: Multiethnic Older Adults and the Community-Based Organizations Serving Them, Policy Implications, by UCSF's Center for Aging in Diverse Communities
Books, Videos, and Films
- How to Be an Antiracist (book), by Ibram X. Kendi (available via audiobook)
- John Lewis: Good Trouble (film) - Learn about the late John Lewis and his 60+ years of social activism
- Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions (book), edited by Christopher Bell
- TEDx Talk: Scenes from a Black trans life, by scholar D-L Stewart
Additional Readings and Toolkits
- Centering Black Community Needs: A resource for faculty and staff to engage in difficult conversations and better support students, postdocs, and research staff, by Stanford Biosciences
- Resource Hub for Black History and Activism: Google Drive compiled by Charles Preston, filled with books and other important work by Black activists and readings on a range of topics
- An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
- Antiracist Allyship Starter Kit - Google Drive compiled by Tatum Dorrell, Matt Herndon, and Jourdan Dorrell, contains articles, books, petitions, donations, and anti-racist resources for teachers
- Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus, JSTOR
- Uprooting Whiteness [Supremacy and Domination] Resource List compiled by William R. Frey
- Fight Back: An Antiracist Reading List
- Structural Racism and Police Violence - resources to support research and teaching about structural racism and police violence
Implicit Bias Test
Racism and Inequity in Academia
Awareness: Racism in the Academy
- Stories from Black academics: #BlackInTheIvory
- How #BlackInTheIvory got started, and What Its Founders Want to See Next
- Why Black Doctors Like Me are Leaving Faculty Positions in Academic Medical Centers
- For Colored Girls in Academia Who Burned Out / When Rest is Enough
- White Academia: Do Better
- I’m a Black Female Scientist. On My First Day of Work, a Colleague Threatened to Call the Cops on Me
- Academia Isn’t a Safe Haven for Conversations About Race and Racism | Harvard Business Review
- Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy (book), by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism by Namandjé Bumpus | Nature
- Amplified: Race and Reality in STEM | Gladstone Institutes
Creating a More Inclusive Environment
Actions You Can Take from Home
Support for AAPI Community Members
- In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning and Policy Council (A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center on March 19, 2020. The center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice “Stand Against Hatred” Incident Report & Bystander Training
Science and Academia
- Concrete Steps for Recruiting, Supporting, and Advancing Underrepresented Minoritized Scientists: A document created in response to the desire from over-represented scientists to get engaged and work toward equity and fair representation in science. The document is broken down by specific action items for a variety of audiences, including individual learners, faculty, labs, departments, and institutions.
- Join or support the Black Women in Computational Biology Network.
San Francisco Bay Area
Support Local Black, Women of Color, and Antiracist Organizations - Donate, Volunteer, Follow on Social Media
- AF3RIM: A Transnational Feminist Organization
- Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee
- People’s Breakfast Oakland (see Twitter for donation info)
- Black Earth Farms
- Black-owned restaurants and pop-ups in the Bay Area
- Black Organizing Project
- Oakland Power Projects - building community power and well-being without relying on law enforcement
- Donate to the National Bail Fund Network
- Initiate Justice works to end mass incarceration and organize members, both inside and outside of prisons, to advocate for their freedom and change criminal justice policy in California
- Hella Black Podcast - an Oakland-based podcast to educate and inform listeners on all things related to Blackness and uplift the voices of Black organizers
General
- Justice in June (or any month) - whether you have 10, 25, or 45 min/day, here are things you can do to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally; includes links to learning resources and a schedule for what to do each day/weekly.
- 135 Ways to Donate in Support of Black Lives and Communities of Color
- Letters to employers and institutions asking for action around racial justice
- Letters and phone calls to city officials to defund police departments in your local area
- Resource list for taking immediate actions: protest, aid protestors, donate, ways to give more, contact officials, sign petitions, spread awareness, and indirect action
- Buy from Black-owned bookstores accepting online orders
- Taking Action in Solidarity with Black Lives, from Indivisible
- Antiracism Learning Opportunities through Enrich Chicago
- Donate to the Official George Floyd Memorial Fund
Last updated: January 27, 2022
