Anti-Racism Toolkit
(A Living Document)
Our Anti-Racism Statement
We acknowledge and hear you. "We are the change" each time we use our collective voices. Stumptown Stages is committed to an antiracism action plan for our work environments that cares for and sustains BIPOC artistry and lives.
Below is a list of action items and how we at Stumptown Stages are implementing them to harness the energy toward making true progress.
ACTION: equity, diversity and inclusion training
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STATUS: Stumptown Stages has committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Professional Learning Courses within a permanent DEI budget line item.
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STATUS: Stumptown Stages has implemented an EDI Liaison position for each production. The EDI Liaison is a safe conduit for cast and crew members to anonymously communicate EDI workplace needs, concerns, and conditions to the producing party.
ACTION: leaning in, listening and taking action.
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STATUS: This is a “living” document. Our work at Stumptown Stages honors the efforts of BIPOC theater makers who have lifted their voices against racism in the American Theatre for generations. Stumptown Stages adds its voice to these efforts, not just through words, but through the execution of concrete action plans.
This is a “living” document. Our work at Stumptown Stages honors the efforts of BIPOC theater makers who have lifted their voices against racism in the American Theatre for generations. Stumptown Stages adds its voice to these efforts, not just through words, but through the execution of concrete action plans.
We welcome the continued conversations with our beloved theatre community. We have much work to do because #BlackLivesMatter!!
Stumptown Stages Land Acknowledgement
Stumptown Stages recognizes, acknowledges and honors the Indigenous peoples of this region on whose ancestral lands, the theatre now stands. We also want to recognize that Portland today is a community of many diverse Native peoples who continue to live and work here. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, future—and are grateful for their ongoing and vibrant presence.
Ways You Can Help
Coalition of Communities of Color
https://www.coalitioncommunitiescolor.org/take-action
PAALF
https://www.paalf.org
NAACP of Portland
https://pdxnaacp.org
The Urban League of Portland
https://ulpdx.org
Black United Fund
https://www.bufor.org/about
Don't Shoot Portland
https://www.dontshootpdx.org/about-us/
An Anti-racist Reading List
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
The Case for Reparations:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Participate in anti-racism trainings:
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond:
https://www.pisab.org/programs/
Off the Mat, Into the Word:
https://otmtraining.offthematintotheworld.org/p/dismantling-racism-cr
Michelle C. Johnson:
https://www.michellecjohnson.com/skill-in-action-book
Southern Poverty Law Center:
https://www.splcenter.org/teaching-tolerance
64 Things White People can do for Racial Justice:
https://medium.com/@cshutack/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
Rachel Cargle:
https://mailchi.mp/rachelcargle/dothework-course-all-30days
Felicia Isacc:
Climate Change Is Hurting Expectant Black Mothers
Nina Martin and Renee Montagne:
Leila Fadel:
The Separate and Unequal Health System Highlighted By COVID-19
Ibram X. Kendi:
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
Melissa Little:
Implicit Bias: Be an Advocate for Change
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.:
How James Baldwin Told the Truth About Racism in America
Nikole Hanna-Jones
America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
Take an Implicit Bias Test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Read
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How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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The 1619 Project https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
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Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org/
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Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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Behind the Cover: What is Owed by Nikole Hannah-Jones
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The Sum Of Us by Heather McGhee
Listen/Watch
Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Podcast:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
Ibram X. Kendi's Unlocking Us:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
Brene Brown's Shame and Accountability:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-on-shame-and-accountability/
Pancho Savery's Feeling Bookish
Ava DuVernay's 13th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
Oregon Black history timeline video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2RVOunsZ8
Walidah Imarisha PDX Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZlNEZ3NEw
American Theatre Wing: this panel of Black theatre creators, educators, and leaders talk about anti-Blackness within our industry, the power structures at play, and how we can create a more equitable American Theatre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfeFpjelPeQ&list=PLhy08ToOw66r5cRG0dShSPCHN3Bn0_S8F&index=1&t=15s
Isabel Wilkerson
The Great Migration and the Power of a Single Decision
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Amanda Gorman
Mental Health Services
Multnomah County Crisis Line: 503-988-4888
https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/thrivelearningcenter/resources/mental-health-first-aid.page