Educate Yourself

All too often, the burden of educating others falls on people with equity-seeking identities. You can be an ally by taking on that education for yourself. Bring D&I home after your CANVAS training with this resource list.

Our Favourite Podcasts

• On Gender and Sexuality:

  • Nancy (recommended episode: “This AwfulSide of Me”)

  • Scene on Radio: S3 E10 “The Juggernaut”

• On Race and Ethnicity:

  • Code Switch (try: “The Code Switch Guide To Handling Casual Racism”)

  • Nice White Parents

  • Thunder Bay

  • Unreserved: “'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement”

• On Disability:

  • Adaptive (feature segment on CBC Spark: “The line between accessory and assistive technology”)

• On Religion:

  • Tell Them, I Am

• On Sexual Harassment:

  • This American Life: #674: Get a Spine! Act 1 “Finally”

• On Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace:

  • For the Love of Work: Episode 2 “Leaning into Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging”

  • Radical Candor Podcast:

    • S2 E5 “Radically Candid Conversations — Kim Scott & Tiffani Lee Discuss Using Radical Candor to Improve DEI Conversations”

    • S2 E11 “Radically Candid Conversations — Kim Scott & Annie Jean-Baptiste, Author of Building for Everyone”

Our Favourite Books

Pick them up at your local, independent bookstore. If you’re in Toronto, we recommend A Different Booklist, Another Story Bookshop, or TYPE Books.

• On Gender and Sexuality:

  • I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (there’s a Fun Home musical too!)

  • The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

  • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

  • Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

  • A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson

  • Check out the Lambda Literary Awards for many more

• On Race and Ethnicity:

  • How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

  • The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole

  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

  • The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

  • My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle

• On Disability:

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (original French title: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) by Jean-Dominique Bauby

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

  • Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney

• On Religion:

  • Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash

  • We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib