Additional Resources

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Gender Equity

#BlackTransLivesMatter: How Black Cis-Women are Part of the Problem

5 Accidentally Transphobic Phrases Allies Use — and What to Say Instead

5 Ways White Feminists Can Address Our Own Racism

8 Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Depression As A Black Woman

Ain’t I A Womanist?

All Too Often I Am Forced to Choose: A Conversation with Lydia Diamond

Are Women Getting Any Closer to Equality in Theatre?

The Bechdel Test Sets the Bar Too Low. Let's Write a New One.

Best Articles 2013: The 24 Pieces That Should Be Required Reading For Women

Best Articles 2012: The 25 Pieces That Should Be Required Reading For Women

Career or Children? Why Theatre Parents Feel Forced to Choose

Charging Bias by Theaters, Female Playwrights to Hold Meeting 

Cross Post: How To Build Gender Parity Initiatives and Influence Theatre

Dear White Women: To Whom My Pain is Invisible

Drama Is Drama: Women’s Voices in Theater

Erica Whyman –‘still no gender equality among theatre leaders’

Emily Glassberg Sands’ Princeton Study

Even the Score: Female composers edge forward.

Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not

Fair Play: Should Gender Equality in Theatre Be Mandatory?

Gender Disparity, Self-Reporting, and Theatre Rhino's A Lady and A Woman

Gender Equality Checklist

Gender Parity 

Girls on Film: Hollywood's 4 Percent Problem

Guthrie Theater’s debt to women and diversity

How systems change.

I Have a Character Issue

If We Divide, We Don’t Conquer: 3 Reasons Why Feminists Need to Talk About Race

In Which My Tolerance for Sexism in Theatre Reaches a Breaking Point

Increasing Diversity in the Theater

Interview with Carey Perloff
 
It Can’t Happen Here: Sexual Harassment in the Theatre

Joss Whedon on Writing Strong Women Characters

Lean In Discussion Guide

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color

My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters

Misogynoir: Where Racism and Sexism Meet

Nicholas Hytner Predicts Gender Equality Among Theatre-makers

Not Here to Make Friends

Not There Yet: Equality for Women

On Gender Parity

Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender

Playmaking in Pseudo-Post-Feminist America

Push for Parity
 
Sexism in Dance: Where are all the Female Choreographers?

Sexism on the Stage – Meet the Women Tearing up the Script

She Has A Name: Casually Diminishing Women In Theatre

Sundance Playwrights Sound Off on Female Emergence, Blacklisting and Advocacy Group The Kilroys

The Price of Being a Female Artist

Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater

Rose McGowan Is Starting A Revolution

Theresa Rebeck’s Laura Pels Keynote Speech

Theatre of Equality: Research on Gender Equality and the Arts

This Is What I Mean When I Say "White Feminism"

Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting, Part 1: Words, Words, Words

Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting, Part 2: The Performers

Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting, Part 3: The Writers

Transgender Terminology

We Are Part of the Problem—and of the Solution

We Are Not a Mirror: Theater Must Lead with Women’s Stories 

We Need More Women Superheroes

We Need to Talk About Katy Perry: Why Orientalism in Pop Culture Matters?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Race

When Leaning In Doesn't Pay Off

Why Are People Using the Terms ‘Womyn’ and ‘Womxn’ Instead of ‘Women’?

Why I Don’t F**k with Feminism, Even If It's Intersectional

Why Is 'White Feminism' Such a Dirty Phrase? A History of Feminism and Exclusion

Why The Bechdel Test Is More Important Than You Realize

Why Those ‘Suffragette' T-Shirts are a Racial Slap

Why Make a Caricature of what are Complex Feelings for some Black Women?

Why Our Feminism Must Be Intersectional (And 3 Ways to Practice It)

Wobbling on the Political Lines (in six inch heels): Creating Feminist Theater with Girls

A Woman's World: Family or a Career – Why Do Women In Theatre Have to Choose? Marsha Norman Weighs In

Women In Sitcoms Are Getting A Lot More Three-Dimensional. And That's A Good Thing.

Women's Suffrage Leaders Left Out Black WomenTOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONSIBLE TRANS CASTING, PART 1: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

Racial Equity

21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis

27 Racial Microaggressions People Of Color Are Tired Of Hearing

A-List Actresses Tackle Race, Sexism, Aging in Hollywood

The Academy Awards isn’t alone with its color problem. Look at higher education.

Asian Actors Onstage: Lea Salonga, Phillipa Soo Sound Off on Broadway Representation, Cultural Perceptions

Asian American Theater Leaders React to 'Nightingale' Controversy

Asian-Americans: Why Can't We Get Cast In NYC?

August Wilson vs. Robert Brustein

Bamboo-Ceiling TV: Eddie Huang on "Fresh Off the Boat"

Black Folks, It's Time To Stop Taking Care Of White People

Black Lives Matter Fall 2015 Syllabus

Black Lives Matter Fall 2016 Syllabus​

Black Lives Matter vs. Bernie Sanders, explained

Carrying Forward, Clumsily

The Case for Reparations - Article

The Case for Reparations - Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Casting for Justice: Making Some Mirrors

COLORBLIND (Response to media racism/racebending) 

Colorblind Casting or Color-Consciousness?

The Complicity Cost of Racial Inclusion

Equity/Diversity/Change

Diversity, Equality, Bus Lanes, and the Arts

A Diversity Problem in Arts Administration: The 2013 Salary Survey Reaction 

For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'

Funding Crisis Threatens Black Theater

Geisha A-Go-Go: Katy Perry’s AMAs Performance Stirs Debate

The Ground on Which I Stand - August Wilson 

Holding the Mirror Up to Nature

Hollywood’s Diversity Gap Has Spawned An “Epidemic Of Invisibility”

Hollywood Diversity Paints Bleak Picture for Anyone Who is Not a White Man

How do you say “Arts Education” in Spanish?

How to Cast Actors of Color

How to Fix Hollywood's Race Problem
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How to Race Bait

How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist

How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion

HowlRound - Black Theatre

HowlRound - Latino/a Theatre

I’m Having Trouble with the Idea that Art is Universal Lately

I Don’t Discuss Racism With White People

I, Racist

Images of Other - Dramaturgy Guild Panel moderated by Christine Toy Johnson with panelists John Weidman, Fernanda Coppel and Kia Corthron 

Inside Hollywood’s Shocking Blackface Problem

Keep Your Hands Off of My Kimono, White People

Killers, Slaves and Butlers: Isaiah Washington on African Americans and the Academy

Many Major Theaters Believe in Color Blind Casting (Except When It Comes to People of Color)

Moving The Race Conversation Forward

Opportunities Abound: Antiracism and Arts Philanthropy

Ordway Center's Miss Saigon: The show must go on

An ‘Otello’ Without Blackface Highlights an Enduring Tradition in Opera

Our 21st-century Segregation: We're Still Divided by Race

Pop Culture, White Privilege and Widening the Lens

Protecting Racism in Theatre

Push for Diversity in Ballet Turns to Training the Next Generation

Race and Casting's Recurring Role

Race and Representation in American Theatre

Racist or Not Racist with Key and Peele (The Daily Show with John Stewart)

The Real Problem When It Comes to Diversity and Asian-Americans

Realism vs. Racism: Opera's Casting Call

Should a Fuss Be Made Over Colorblind Casting?

The Talented (Tenth?) Mr. West

Thoughts on Theater: Colorblind Casting

The Trouble with Mary & MARY RESPONDS: My Interview with Mary Zimmerman

What Shall We Tell Our Young Playwrights Who Are Black?

When A Facebook Comment Says More Than a Long Blog Post About Diversity​

Who is Black? One Nation's Definition

A Whole New Ballgame in Arts Hiring

Why Black & Brown Representation in Pop Culture Is Important. A Rant.

Why Hollywood is still so bad at diversity

Why Is Othello Black?

Why It's Important to Have Black and Brown Bodies Onstage Outside of Stereotypical Black and Brown Roles 

Why it’s so mind-blowing (and important) to see Asian parents kissing on TV

Why Mixed with White isn't White

Why Reverse Racism Isn't Real

Yes/And – tackling racial diversity by looking to things adjacent

The Role of Allies

4 Ways To Honor Native Americans Without Appropriating Our Culture

4 Ways to Push Back Against Your Privilege

The 5 Stages of White Privilege Awareness 

6 Rules for Allies from Dr. Omi Olono Osum

6 Things White Parents Can Do to Raise Racially Conscious Children

7 Actual Facts That Prove White Privilege Exists in America

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Are you or your org guilty of Trickle-Down Community Engagement?

Are You Sure You're Not a Racist

Blackface, Diversity, and Getting Opera Right in 2015

Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable

Casual Racism is not My Spirit Animal 

Challenging Racism and the Problem with White “Allies”: A Conversation with David Leonard

Coercive Philanthropy? Legitimacy v. Wisdom

Considering Whiteness

Conviction? Check. Money? Check. So What's Keeping the Arts Sector from Embracing Active, Diverse Audience Engagement?

Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston

Diversification as Disruption

Diversity is a Problem

Dr. Manuel Pastor’s Speak on the Impact of Demographics on the Arts 

The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours

Establishing Cultural Norms: Our Role and Responsibility

Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

A Few Things I Think We Should Learn From MCTC’s Attack on Professor Shannon Gibney

From Here to There

How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege

How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist

Interview with Joseph Haj

Nine Learnings on Privilege and Diversity

On Being an Ally and Being Called Out on Your Privilege

On Coercive Philanthropy and Change: Breakups May Be Good and Necessary

On White Privilege and Museums

Open Letter to the Three White Students Who Filed a Discrimination Complaint Against Their Black Teacher

On Racism and White Privilege

Opportunities Abound: Antiracism and Arts Philanthropy

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Audience Development Manifesto

Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-belonging

The Problem with “Privilege”

Pop culture, white privilege and widening the lens

Practical Ways We Can Stop Centering Everything Around White People’s Feelings

Privileged Denial

Recognizing Privilege and Structural Racism

Social Identity Wheel Exercise

Speaking from Privilege

The Year We Obsessed Over Identity

Thinkin of a Master Plan ...

This Comic Perfectly Explains What White Privilege Is

This is What White Privilege Is

To the White Anti-Racists Who are Nervous About Stepping Up Against Racism

Twitter Sparks A Serious Discussion About Race And Feminism

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Left

We Cannot Have Honest Discussions About Racism if We Refuse to Confront Whiteness

The Weight of White people in the World

What Lies Beneath: The Truth About Unconscious Bias

What To Do If Your Workplace Is Too White

What you need to know about... Equality Diversity and Inclusion

When Does Coaxing Become Coercing?

White America’s racial illiteracy: Why our national conversation is poisoned from the start

White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in their Work

White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism 

White People Do Good Things for One Another, and That’s Bad for Hiring

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

White Women’s Tears and the Men Who Love Them

Why Aren’t There More Butts of Color in These Seats?

Why Equity Matters: New Ideas and Action Steps

Why I'm Not Here for #WhiteGirlsRock

Why Intersectionality Can't Wait

This Is the Perfect Illustration of Why Microaggressions Hurt

Working with Small Arts Organization sHow and Why It Matters