Tools & Resources
This curated selection highlights BIPOC perspectives, methodologies, and knowledge, fostering a deeper understanding of justice and equity in research.
Liberatory research syllabi
The Liberatory Research Syllabus is a free resource promoting just and equitable research practices. The introduction, Chapter 1 on Black feminist theory, and Chapter 2 on research justice are now available. Sign up here for email updates on future chapters.
Download PDF versions of the Liberatory Research Syllabus using the links below.
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READING LIST
Decolonizing Knowing & Research Methods
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Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education.
Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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Black Feminist Thought.
Patricia Hill Collins
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Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts.
Margaret Elizabeth Kovach
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Indigenous Research Methodologies.
Bagele Chilisa
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Indigenous Pathways into Social Research: Voices of a New Generation.
Bagele Chilisa
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Research as Resistance: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches.
Leslie Brown
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Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education
Gregory Cajete
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Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science.
Raewyn Connell
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Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought.
Sandy Grande
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Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods.
Shawn Wilson
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Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change.
Eve Tuck
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Black Women in the Field: Experiences Understanding Ourselves and Others through Qualitative Research.
Gretchen Givens Generett, Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
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Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork
S.R. Toliver
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Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in a Timeplace of Collapse
Norma Kaweloku Wong
PODCASTS
How to Survive the End of the World Podcast:
Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, two sisters who share many identities as writers, activists, facilitators, and inheritors of multiracial diasporic lineages, as well as a particular interest in the question of survival, delve into the practices we need as a community to move through endings and to come out whole on the other side, whatever that might be.
Prentis Hemphill is in conversation with the thinkers, creators, and doers who are exploring some of the most relevant questions of our time: What will it take for us to change as a species? How do we create relationships that lead to collective transformation, and what will it take for us to heal?
Reveal Podcast:
Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate, and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers, and formerly incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable.
Intersectionality Matters! Podcast:
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff:
As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history
The Fascism Barometer Podcast:
Learning about fascism can feel overwhelming and terrifying. The Fascism Barometer is a podcast and resource hub to answer your questions and explore solutions together. Movement meteorologist Ejeris Dixon and a crew of amazing guests discuss how rising fascism affects our safety, our communities, and how we can stop it.
Love in a F*cked Up World is a podcast hosted by Dean Spade that offers tools and ideas that can help us to build and sustain strong relationships and strong movements, because our resistance movements are made of our relationships, and are only as strong as they are.
Movement Memos:
An ongoing call to action for movement work and mutual aid efforts around the country. Kelly Hayes connects with activists, journalists, and others on the front lines to break down what’s happening in various struggles and what listeners can do to help.
Beyond Prisons is a podcast on incarceration and prison abolition that elevates people directly impacted by the system.
All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Temryss Lane (Lummi Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.
Reports & Models
From The Research Justice Institute (RJI) and the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC)
Toolkit from Power Shift
Popular Education toolkit on Resource Justice for organizations
Resources specific to Racial Equity
Essential resources for individuals & organizations
Syllabi/Zines/Resources via POC
Readings about the impacts of racism, marginalization, and white supremacy