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Celebrating Transgender Awareness Week
Wondering what to do to celebrate Transgender Awareness Week at your place of business? Here are some ideas to get you started!
Immersive Experiences During COVID
When you’re ready to dig into and understand diverse cultures at a deeper level, consider immersing yourself in books, podcasts, and movies made by and for people who are not like you.
The Creation of Whiteness
What is “whiteness”? How was it created? Why was it created? Who does it serve… and who does it harm? Here are some videos, articles, and podcasts that answer this question.
Trauma-Informed Care Questions
Trauma-informed care can combat unconscious bias in medical systems by increasing empathy with patients, improving rates of providers believing patients'’ experiences of pain, and driving better patient outcomes. Here are sample questions and statements of affirmation that will help you connect with your patients.
Anti-Racism and Burnout: Completing the Stress Cycle
When doing anti-racism work, it is common to experience “flight or fight” stress reactions. Here are some concrete tools for regaining control over your limbic system when you’ve experienced this type of reaction.
Healing from Racial Trauma
People of all racial identities have experienced generational trauma around race, and Resmaa Menakem has much to teach us about ancestral healing.
Research: Trans* Birth Care In Canada Study
Collaborate Consulting regularly provides insight to researchers and academics studying LGBTQ parenting, transgender fertility, and more!
CB Films: Trans Pregnancy Project
Collaborate Consulting has worked with several media outlets to tell smart LGBTQ family-building stories with grace and integrity. Here’s one example!
Pay Attention Now: a tool for honing your anti-racism lens
Often, if we find ourselves surrounded by like-minded people, we may not have many opportunities to interrupt racist attitudes or actions. It’s not like racism isn’t happening; we simply don’t see it because it’s not as overt. If you’re interested in honing your lens so you can pick up on more subtle forms of racism, this is a great tool to get you started!
Developmental Stages of Anti-Racist Identity
This model is used to map your own white anti-racist identity development AND to assess where on the scale other white people are, so you can better understand how to reach them and move them along on their process towards anti-racism.
Lessons Learned from the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. There is a reason we don’t all know the incredible depth of organizing that the Panthers did. The movement was successfully stymied after a gruesome nation-wide campaign to discredit and destroy it…
Media Partnership - TLC
Here is an example of a media partnership between Collaborate Consulting and TLC, for the show Lost in Transition.