BIPOC Mental Health
(We are simply sharing resources and cannot speak to the work of therapists listed.)
- Find a therapist of colour
- BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Mental Health Supports
- Our Landing Place: Queer Centred Therapy
- Hope for Wellness Help Line
- Mental health counselling benefits for First Nations and Inuit - Government of Canada
- Indigenous psychological services
- Black therapists in Ontario - Psychology Today
- 10 Black therapists in Toronto and the GTA
- Canadian Muslim Counselling
- Khalil Centre Toronto
- Therapy for Muslims
- Find a Muslim therapist
- Find a South Asian therapist
- Asian Mental Health: Seeking Help During the Pandemic
- Mental health resources for Asians in Canada
- Asian mental health resources - Jack.org
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Unconscious bias and microaggressions
- "16 Unconscious Bias Examples and How to Avoid Them in the Workplace"
- "Implicit bias within Canadian media often means providing excuses for white accused"
- "Unconscious bias at the bank"
- "Addressing Implicit or Unconscious Biases in Healthcare"
- "What exactly is a microaggression?"
- Examples of racial microaggressions
- "You’ve been called out for a microaggression. What do you do?"
- "When and How to Respond to Microaggressions"
- "How to Respond to Microaggressions"
Anti-racism
Anti-Indigenous racism
- Anti-Indigenous Racism Resources
- Anti-Indigenous racism in Canada
- Anti-Indigenous racism
- Anti-Indigenous systemic racism in Canadian healthcare systems
- "No single fix for anti-Indigenous racism in Canada's health-care system: doctor"
- "Why is Indigenous specific training on anti-racism and unconscious bias important?"
Anti-Black racism
- "Who gets to be afraid in America?" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Police brutality continually treated like a 'one-off' in Canada, says Desmond Cole" (CBC)
- "Combating anti-Black racism"
- Anti-Black racism resource list
- "What's the history of anti-Black racism in Canada"
- "Moving from Not-Racist to Anti-Racist: Spotlight on Anti-Black Racism"
Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism
- Islamophobia Is...
- Islamophobia Is....Comprehensive Resource List
- "Constructing the Muslim Enemy From the Crusades to 9 11"
- "Islamophobic 'feminism' doesn't help Muslim women"
- “The Pity Committee and the Careful Reader: How Not to Buy Stereotypes about Muslim Women”
- "History is more complicated than Islam versus homosexuality"
- “Islamo-Leftism” or Islamophobo-Leftism? Across the political spectrum, a common collection of narratives is rationalising, minimising and invisibilising violence against Muslims.
Casteism/caste oppression
- Unlearning caste supremacy reading list
- Equality Labs: A Dalit civil rights organization
- The Trauma of Caste - An interview with Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan [podcast]
- Initiative to Mitigate Caste-Based Discrimination FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
- Caste on the Menu Card
White supremacy, white fragility, white privilege
- The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
- How White Supremacy and Capitalism Influence Beauty Standards
- White Supremacy Culture in the Workplace
- White Supremacy Culture in Organizations
- Deconstructing Karen [documentary]
- White Tears/Brown Scars [book]
Decolonization
Land acknowledgements
- Whose land do you live on?
- How to do a Land Acknowledgment - Trent University
- "Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?"
- "A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment"
- "How can I make the land acknowledgement meaningful?"
- "Khelsilem’s Tips for Acknowledging Territory 1.0"
Social issues
Workplaces
- "Decolonising the workplace – 14 ideas on how to get started"
- "Decolonizing from Within the Organization
Education
Climate Justice
On Palestine
Palestinian voices
- Decolonize Palestine
- Palestine Nexus
- Visualizing Palestine
- Noura Erakat, Human rights lawyer and Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University
- On Twitter
- On Democracy Now! speaking on Israeli apartheid
- On the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - an interview with ABC News
- On liberal Zionism - an interview on Katie Halper’s show
- Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative
- Explaining how the 'root cause' is Israeli occupation
- Palestinian view from the West Bank - an interview on CNN
- Muhammad El-Kurd, Palestinian writer and poet
- Ghadir Shafie, a Palestinian activist, feminist, and co-director of Aswat, an organization of queer Palestinian women
- On queer solidarity with Palestinians
- On Israel’s pinkwashing
- Edward Said’s The Question of Palestine
- Edward Said, a Palestinian American scholar, was one of the greatest thinkers and scholars in decolonial work. His book, Orientalism, is considered a must read for anyone working in decolonial projects.
- Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
- Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University
- Mondoweiss
- Understanding Anti-Palestinian Racism
History and context
- 100 Years of Palestinian History in 8 Tiktoks -- Summarizing THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE
- Uncovering Untold Palestinian History | Zachary Foster | TMR
- Understanding The Myths And Realities Of Israel with Ilan Pappe, Isreali historian
- Brief History of Israel-Palestine Conflict | Norman Finkelstein Teach-In on Gaza, Israel, and Hamas
- Information on the Hamas Charter [Instagram video]
- Can a settler be indigenous? Indigeneity in Palestine [Instagram video]
- Avi Shlaim reveals how Hamas came to power in Gaza | ICJP Event
- Gaza Besieged, Jews Divided, & a World in Pain: Gabor, Aaron, & Daniel Maté in Conversation
Zionism
- How Zionism Weaponizes Jewish Trauma Against Palestinians (with Naomi Klein)
- Kwame Ture on Zionism and Imperialism
- Zionism is white supremacy [Instagram post]
- History of Zionism [Instagram video]
- Noam Chomsky - Antisemitism vs. Anti-Zionism
- Professor Avi Shlaim answers question about whether Zionism is a racist ideology
- Professor Avi Shlaim explains the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
- "Anti-Zionism is not the same as Anti-Semitism"
Recommended socials and podcasts to follow
Indigenous content creators
Black content creators
- Conscious Lee
- Shelagh Brown
- Dr. Butch Ware
- Dr. Raquel Martin - Psychologist
- Afrosexology
- Angelica Lindsey-Ali
- Warsan Shire
- Marc Lamont Hill
- Clare Brown
- Imani Barbarin
- Mariam
- Saul Williams
- Ijeoma Oluo
- Rahiel Tesfamariam
Muslim content creators
- subhi
- Huda F
- The Queer Muslim Project
- Dr. Butch Ware
- Angelica Lindsey-Ali
- Warsan Shire
- Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui
- Marc Lamont Hill
- Mariam
POC content creators
- YK Hong
- Sikh Coalition
- Alingon Mitra
- Susanna Barkataki
- Thenmozhi Sound (aka Dalit Diva)
- Hanif Fazal
- disorientalizing
Palestinian content creators
- Jenan Matari
- subhi
- Bisan Owda
- Lama Jamous
- Motaz Azaiza
- Noura Erakat
- Ali Abunimah
- Noor Harazeen
- Jenan Matari
- Tamara (queenofPalestine)