SEED New Leaders Training Reader

Required Readings and Viewing

• "The Process of Knowing and Learning," Brenda Flyswithhawks.
• “The Honorable Harvest.” Robin Kimmerer.
• “Race: the Power of an Illusion,” Christine Herbes-Sommers. Video Clip 1, Clip 2, and Clip 3.
• "Breaking down structural racism with 'Ghosts in the Schoolyard,'" Eve L. Ewing and Trevor Noah. 
• “Glossary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Terms,” PFLAG National. (Note: We provide this list to educate ourselves, recognizing that these definitions are ever evolving and expanding.) 
• “Consent and kids with disabilities,” Daisy Wislar.
• "Trans 101 - the Basics,"  Minus18.
• “Que Mujer,” Mare Advertencia Lirika (Lyrics).  
• “Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus,” edited by Salonee Bhaman, Rachel Kuo, Matilda Sabal, Vivian Shaw, & Tiffany Diane Tso.
• "Additional recommendations for us right now from a future," adrienne maree brown.

Additional Resources

The following materials, to be read and viewed at your leisure, are useful if you are seeking to gain further understanding on a particular topic.

SEED Fundamentals

• Multicultural Circles: “The Complexity of Identity: “Who am I?” Beverly Daniel Tatum.
• Storytelling: “How I Learned to Stop Erasing Myself,” Durga Chew-Bose.
• Windows and Mirrors: “The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child's Bookshelf,” Grace Lin.
• Systemic Analysis: “Oppression,”  Marilyn Frye.
• Politics of Location: “Notes Toward a Politics of Location,” Adrienne Rich.
• Intersectionality: “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” Kimberlé Crenshaw.
• Justice: “Social justice: What’s disability got to do with it?,” Ford Foundation. 

Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Wellness, and Ableism

• “A DisCrit perspective on The State of Florida v. George Zimmerman: Racism, ableism, and youth out of place in community and school,” Kathleen Collins.
• “Ableism is The Bane of My Motherfuckin' Existence,” Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern.
• "Explain to Hearing people How to Connect/Talk with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People,"  Antoine Hunter.
• “Smartness as property,” Zeus Leonardo & Alicia Broderick.
• "How America's criminal justice system became the country's mental health system," German Lopez.
• "ADHD sucks, but not really," Salif Mahamane.
• “Pervasive Disability Discrimination,” Lydia X.Z.Brown
• "Growing up with Umar," Samiyah Nageeb.
• "An introductory guide to disability language and empowerment," the Disability Cultural Center at Syracuse University.
• "This is Disability Justice," Nomy Lamm.
• "Through your child's eyes," Understood.org.
• "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much," Stella Young.

Culture, Ethnicity, and Racism

• “Drawing out law,” John Borrows.
• "Whiteness as Property," Cheryl Harris.
• "Afro Latinos get DNA tested," Pero Like.
• “Are we raising racists?” Jennifer Harvey.
• “People think I'm supposed to talk ghetto, whatever that is,” Jennifer Hsu.
• “Racial progress is real. But so is racist progress,”  Ibram Kendi.
• "Islamophobia is Racism Syllabus," Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, Arshad Ali, Evelyn Alsultany, Sohail Daulatzai, Lara Deeb, Carol Fadda, Zareena Grewal, Juliane Hammer, Nadine Naber, and Junaid Rana.
• "Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A polycultural adventure," Vijay Prashad.
• "I've never experienced white guilt," Sarah Webb.
• "Why Student Group MEChA’s Proposed Name Change Has Set Off a Fierce, Multi-Generational Debate," Aaron E. Sanchez.
• "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh.
• "Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment," Malcolm Gladwell.

Gender Identity and Sexism

• "Performative acts and gender constitution: An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory," Judith Butler.
• "Passing/Trans/One Word/Cut," Cut.
• "A map of gender-diverse cultures," PBS and Independent Lens.
• "9 things people get wrong about being non-binary," Suzannah Weiss.
• “This is how you lose me,” by Anna Cincotta.
• "Looking for a better feminism," by Roxane Gay.
• “What everybody gets wrong about misogyny,” Sean Illing and Kate Manne.
• "I'm non-binary, and here's how I talk to my kids about it," Margaret Jacobsen.
• “The next time someone tells you sexism is over, show them these statistics,” Claire Lampen.
• "The Mask You Live In," the Representation Project.
• “Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching ‘It,’” Robin Wall Kimmerer
• "2024 Report on the Experiences of Parents of Transgender and Non-binary Children," Human Rights Campaign

 

Sexual Identity and Heterosexism

• “Queering the Map,” Lucas LaRochelle. 
• “Queer Ancestors Project,” Katie Gilmartin, K. & Celeste Chan.
• “My so-called ex-gay life,” Gabriel Arana.
• “Here Be Dragons,” James Baldwin.
• "Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity," Koa Beck.
• "A Valentine's Day Love Letter to My Young, Queer, Muslim, Immigrant Self," Urooj Arshad.
• "Asexuality: The 'X' in a Sexual World," Dominique Mosbergen.
• "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity," José Esteban Muñoz.
• "10 Examples of Straight Privilege," Erin Tatum.
• “Bay area LGBTQ artists reflect on safe queer spaces,”  KQED Arts.
• “The Pressure to Cover,” Kenji Yoshino.
• “Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography II,” Emerald Rutledge.
• “The Rainbow Guide to Life: Meet the All-Trans Men Football Team from India,” by Vice Asia.
• "Them. Us." Conde Nast.
• "How a Murder Mobilized Detroit's Ballroom Community | Transnational." VICE Life.

• "A Place to Call Home”, PFLAG National. 

Age, Life Stage, Ageism, and Adultism

• "Millennials Show Us What 'Old' Looks Like," AARP.
• "Unlearning adultism," Teresa Graham Brett.
• “Adults just don’t understand: Checking out our everyday adultism,” Kel Kray.
• "Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected," Kimberlé Crenshaw, Priscilla Ocen, & Jyoti Nanda.  
• "Adults as Allies," Barry Checkoway.
• "'When I was your age' and other pitfalls of talking to teens about stress," Juli Fraga.
• "In their words: How children are affected by gender issues," Eve Conant. 
• "Dear White Teachers: You Can't Love Your Black Students If You Don't Know Them," Bettina Love. 
• "It's Our Time to Rise Up," Sandra Laville, Matthew Taylor, and Daniel Hurst.
• "Trauma trickles down: Confronting the dark legacy of American Indian boarding schools," Starla Sampaco.
• "In a Role Reversal, Asian-Americans Aim to Protect Their Parents From Hate," Vanessa Hua. 
• “How Children and Young People Influence Policy-Makers: Lessons from Nicaragua,” Harry Shier and Marisol Hernandez Mendez.
• “Chosen Family,” Rina Sawayama & Elton John (music video)(discussion).

Social Class, Socioeconomic Status, and Classism

• "Why do so many rich people think they're in the middle class?"  Zeeshan Aleem.
• "What a School Means," Eve Ewing & Jen Johnson.
• “Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard at college,”  Henry Farrell.
• “Why poverty persists in America?,” Matthew Desmond
• "Disney, Pixar Misrepresent Class Struggle in Children's Films, Study Finds" Mia Galuppo.
• "Confessions of a wealthy immigrant," Iimay Ho and Amanda Northrop.
• "The class divide: Remote learning at 2 schools, private and public," Dana Goldstein. 
• "What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?" Robin Kelley.
• "Class in America and Donald Trump,"  Karin Kamp.
• "The Story of Stuff,"  with Annie Leonard.
• "Is America dreaming? Understanding social mobility" and “Dream Hoarders: Who’s destroying the American Dream?“ Richard Reeves.
• "Debunking the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps," Carmen Rios.nnie Leonard.