Dr. B’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-racism (DEIA) Resource List is one person’s way of organizing their thoughts in what hopefully is a useful way for someone else to find resources to help them at their stage of learning about structural racism (and adjacent issues).
Because Dr. B is an educator and naturalist, resources skew towards that perspective.
Similarly, Dr. B is based in Philadelphia, PA. Resources are skewed towards an American audience.
This journey is more like a marathon than a sprint
This is one place to
start (reading).
Click on the photograph that best fits where you are at
I don’t even know where to begin
I believe in structural racism, but don’t feel articulate about it
I have read (or experienced) a lot and want to know more
Adjacent issues:
Things that may be incorporated differently later, but I still want them here from the beginning of creating this webpage.
White Supremacy Culture, a website that could be thought of as a book
Drop the Ball by tiffany dufu, and related, Untamed by Gennon Doyle
Matters of Care by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas
We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichue
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
bell hooks, author
James Baldwin, author, playwriter
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Shrill by Lindy West
About
Dr. B is a white Philadelphia native, and has been thinking about racism’s impact on her community for many years.
Other relevant facts:
She grew up in Germantown
She went to public school K-12
She attended college in New York City
She has a PhD in Ecology and Evolution
Her extended family history is from farming communities in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
The format of this website was inspired by:
And by the way Dr. Liboiron introduces themselves and structures their book “Pollution is Colonialism”
This website is currently still being constructed (November, 2023)
Thank you for visiting! Feel free to contact me with thoughts and suggestions.