Further Resources

Social/Emotional Services

• The Student Wellness Centre
• SOCH Mental Health McMaster 
• Jack.org McMaster 
• Cope 
• Indigenous Student Services
• The Black Student Success Centre 
• Psychology Today - Racial Identity Therapists 
• Psychology Today - Black Therapists
• Open Counselling Hotlines
• Black Therapist Directory 
• Good2Talk
• Empower Me

Peer Support Services

• Women and Gender Equity Network (McMaster WGEN)
• Pride Community Centre (McMaster PCC)
• Maccess
• MSU Diversity Services
• United in Colour

Dispute/Complaint Resolution

• Equity and Inclusion Office (EIO)
• Ombuds
• The Blue Folder

Racism

• Confronting Racism in the Classroom
• Why we need to call out casual racism
• Call Out & Call In Racism
• When to Call Someone Out or Call Them In Over Racist Behaviour
• Interrupting Bias: Callin Out/In Racism
• Systemic Racism in Higher Education
• Universities are failing to address racism on campus
• Years of anti-racism at Canadian universities but little action
• How anti-Black racism on Canadian university campuses robs us all
• Colleges must take a new approach to systemic racism
• Racism in the academy
• Being Black on campus: why students, staff, and faculty say universities are failing them
• At Canadian universities, institutional racism is more than a few bad apples

Microaggressions

• Microaggressions are a big deal
• Examples of microaggressions

Whiteness

• What White Colleagues Need to Understand
• The 7 Circles of Whiteness
• Whiteness
• System of White Supremacy and White Privilege
• White rage won’t just go away

Anti-racism

• Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Action: First Steps  
• What Anti-Racist Teachers Do Differently  
• Becoming An Anti-Racist Educator 
• A Guide to Equity and Anti-Racism for Educators  
• Establishing Ground Rules  
• Race Equity Impact Assessment    
• Creating an Anti-Racist Classroom     
• Strategies for Anti-Racist and Decolonized Teaching  
• The Guide to Allyship  
• Indigenous Ally Toolkit  
• Anti-Oppression LibGuide 
• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Allyship Industrial Complex   

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