Equity

Resources for building equitable organizational cultures, practicing self-reflection, and developing skills for collective work

Articles

• Glossary

• White Supremacy Culture PDF

• White Supremacy Culture Website

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary (Spoon Theory)

Books

• Detour Spotting for White Antiracists by Jona Olsson

• Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown

• Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by Adrienne Maree Brown

Community Organization

• Book Consultation with ERJET

• New Theory Consulting, Jamila Dozier (She/They) and Ruby Joy White (Prince/They/She)

• Mangrove Roots Coaching, Rut Martinez-Alicea

Community Training

• AORTA

• Management Center

• Race Forward

• YWCA of Greater Portland

Resources for navigating conflict, accountability, repair and the ways conflict can be transformed through mutual agreement, respect, and care

Articles

• Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary (Centered Accountability)

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary (Window of Tolerance)

Books

• We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Maree Brown

Community Organization

• Turning Towards Conflict, Weyam Ghadban and Jovida Ross

Community Training

• ERJET

• Accountability Mapping, Daria

Resources centered on Indigenous Peoples, Community, and ways of knowing

Articles

• American Settler Colonialism 101

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary & Call to Action for “Regional” Tribal Nations

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary (DMC Logic Model)

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary (TIPM Model)

• The Equity & Racial Justice Education Team Resource Summary (Window of Tolerance)

Resources centered on Immigrant and Migrant communities, policy, and farmworker organizing

Articles

• A Tribute to Braceros in Central Oregon: From the Potato Harvest to our Community’s Success by Tracy Alexander

• The Story of PCUN and the Farmworker Movement in Oregon, by Lynn Stephen

Books:

• Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition, by Mae M. Ngai

• Of Forests and Fields Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest by Mario Jimenez Sifuentez

Foundational resources for understanding race as a social and political system, implicit bias, structural racism, and intersecting systems of oppression.

Articles

• The Combahee River Collective Statement Combahee River Collective

Books

• How To Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

• Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, 3rd ed, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald

• American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear, by Khaled A. Beydoun

• Race: The Power of an Illusion from California Newsreel

• We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders A Memoir of Love and Resistance by Linda Sarsour

Community Organization

• INTERSECT Northwest

• Resolutions Northwest

Community Training

• Intersectionality Training Institute

• People's Institute Northwest / undoing racism workshop

Articles

• THE "EMPIRE" STRIKES BACK: A POSTTRANSSEXUAL MANIFESTO by Sandy Stone

• Transgender Studies: Queer Theory's Evil Twin by Susan Stryker

• Mutilating Gender by Dean Spade

Books

• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

• Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

• Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker

• Black on Both Sides: A Radical History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton