BIPOC Support & Anti-Racism

Community Organizations

• Black Health Alliance
• The African Canadian Development and Protection Network
• Black Community Resource Centre
• DESTA Black Youth Network
• Black Indigenous Harm Reduction Alliance
• First Nations and Inuit Suicide Prevention Association of Quebec and Labrador
• Native Montreal
• Native Friendship Centre of Montreal
• Quebec Native Women Inc
• Tasiutigiit
• Native Women's Association of Canada
• Young Asian Health Professionals Association
• Chinese Family Services of Montreal
• South Asian Women's Community Center

Mental Health

Therapy and Clinicians

• McGill Student Wellness Hub Local Wellness Advisor for BIPOC students
• McGill Student Wellness Hub Local Wellness Advisor for Black Students
• Healing in Colour
• Inclusive Therapists
• All Black Everything Montreal
• Black Youth Helpline
• Black Healing Centre
• The Lavender Collective
• First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line
• CAFLA Latino Family Support Centre
• Amal Women Centre
• Canadian Asian Mental Health Collective
• Multicultural Mental Health Resources Canada

Self-Care

• The Four Bodies: A Holistic Toolkit for Coping With Racial Trauma
• Black Lives Matter Meditations
• Asian Mental Health Project
• Health in Her HUE
• Latinx Therapy
• Culture for Life
• The Village App
• Shine App

Student Associations

• SSMU Religion and Culture Clubs
• Black Students Network
• McGill Black Alumni Association
• Indigenous Student Alliance
• SSMU Indigenous Affairs Committee

McGill Initiatives

• McGill Equity Office
• Social Accountability and Community Engagement (SACE) Office
• Branches - McGill's Community Outreach Program at Enrolment Services
• International Student Services
• MORSL Anti-Racism and Faith Resources
• First People's House
• Office of Indigenous Initiatives
• Indigenous Health Professions Program

Podcasts

• 1619 (New York Times)
• About Race
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White
• Fare of the Free Child Podcast
• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
• GoodMuslimBadMuslim
• Racism Cont’d
• Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories
• Nice White Parents (Serial and The New York Times)

Visual Media

Videos

• Anti-Black racism is a barrier to seeking mental health services, says McGill professor | CBC (January 27, 2021)
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' 
• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools 
• How to Build an Anti-Racist World | Dr. Ibram X. Kendi at TED2020

Films and TV Series

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent
• Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Available to rent
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent
• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent 
• King In The Wilderness  — HBO
• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent 
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent 
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• The House I Live In — Available to rent

Articles

• Black Experiences in Health Care Symposium: Bringing Together Community and Health Systems for Improved Health Outcomes
• Anti-Racist Health Care Practice by Elizabeth McGibbon, Josephine Etowa
• Racism In Canada Is Ever-Present, But We Have A Long History Of Denial by Maija Kappler (Updated June 1, 2020)
• It’s long-past time to talk about policing of Black women in Canada by Robyn Maynard (May 29, 2020)
• 11 brefs essais contre le racisme - Essays Exploring Systemic Racism from a Québec perspective
• Calling The Police Doesn’t Solve Hate Crimes - It Puts Us In More Danger by Melayna Williams (May 29, 2020)
• The Pandemic Of Black Trauma Will Never End by Kathleen Newman-Bremang (May 20, 2020)
• Quebec has a systemic racism problem, obviously by Toula Drimonis (June 2, 2020)
• Le racisme des autres ne saurait masquer le n​ô​tre​ by Stéphane Baillargeon (June 2, 2020)
• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• The 1619 Project (all articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
• One Way To Be An Ally Right Now? Support Black Mental Health
• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon
• “Exclusion Through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada As a White Settler Nation” by Enakshi Dua (2007)
• “The White Women’s Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-Century Canada” by Constance Backhouse (1996)
• “Anti-Asian Racism in Canada: How to Have Open Conversations with Kids” by Arti Patel (2021)
• “Anti-Asian Racism Reaches ‘Crisis Point’ in Canada, Advocates Say” by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours (2021)
• “How to Start Conversations About Anti-Asian Racism with Your Family” by Anna Sirianni (2021)
• “The Long History of US Racism Against Asian Americans, From ‘Yellow Peril’ to ‘Model Minority’ to the ‘Chinese Virus” by Adrian De Leon (2020)
• “Timeline: This Is Canada's History of Anti-Asian Racism that COVID-19 Has Amplified” by Veronica Appia (2021)
• Anti-Asian Violence Spiked During COVID-19, Here’s What You Should Know by Isabelle Docto (2021)
• Decade-Old Article on Universities Being 'Too Asian' Sparks Panel Conversation on Anti-Asian Racism at UBC by Mandy Huynh (2020)
• Survey of Chinese Canadians’ Experience of Discrimination During COVID by Angus Reid Institute & University of Alberta (2020)
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• "Beyond Racism: Mapping Ruling Relations in a Canadian University from the Standpoint of Racialized Female Student Activists" by Mahtab Nazemi (2011)
• "Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy" by Jason Arday & Heidi Safia Mirza (2018)
• "Nothing to Add: A Challenge to White Silence in Racial Discussions" by Robin DiAngelo (2012)
• What so many get wrong about racism in the workplace by Amy Rigby

Books

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
• 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
• Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing, and Resistance by Patricia Wong Hall & Victor M. Hwang (2001)
• Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics edited by Lynn Fujiwara & Shireen Roshanravan (2018)
• Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History by Laura Madokoro & Francine McKenzie (2017)
• Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America by Seema Sohi (2014)
• Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians by Jordan Stanger-Ross (2020)
• Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women edited by Asian Women United of California (1989)
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (2020)
• Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties by Karen L. Ishizuka & Jeff Chang (2016)
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (2017)
• The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee (2016) 
• We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer (2017)
• Racism in the Canadian University: Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity by Frances Henry & Carol Tator (2009)
• The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities by Frances Henry et al. (2017)