Crystal Byrd Farmer

The Token (eBook, ePUB)

Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

MEET THE NEW BLACK FRIEND YOU NEVER HAD

An excellent resource for all those who are committed to equity.
- PAUL KIVEL, author, Uprooting Racism

This is the book that is going to save you from theory and guilt trips.
- AKILAH S. RICHARDS, author, Raising Free People

COMMUNITY, BUSINESS, and organization leaders often ask: How do I get diversity in my group? The thing is, the work is real, but it's a minefield out there.

With a blunt style that pulls no punches, your new token Black friend, Crystal Byrd Farmer, acts as the bridge between majority white organizations and "diverse" people across identities of race, LGBTQ, socioeconomic status, and disability.

Crystal tells you how it is, calling you out on tokenism, while extending a helping hand. Coverage includes:

• What marginalized people experience and what they need to succeed
• Doing "The Work" - how to have deep conversations with your membership about the reality of bias, privilege, and microaggressions
• Choosing appropriate meeting locations and establishing ground rules
• Practical exercises and discussion questions and when to bring in outside help
• Building support within your organization and talking to resistant friends.

This provocative, humorous, and accessible guide is for all people leading progressive organizations who acknowledge the need for diversity but don't know where to start.

Honest and unfiltered-a treasure trove of tools, stories, and resources.
- JOE COLE, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies

Not sure what The Work is? Don't worry, Crystal Byrd Farmer is here to help.
- CYNTHIA TINA, Co-Director, Foundation for Intentional Community

CRYSTAL BYRD FARMER is an engineer turned educator, organizer, and speaker who focuses on cohousing, Black, and polyamorous communities. She lives in Gastonia, NC.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Society Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771423403
• Artikelnr.: 58515669

Autorenporträt

Crystal Byrd Farmer is an engineer turned educator. She has been an organizer and speaker as part of the cohousing and polyamorous communities. She is the website editor for Black & Poly, an organization promoting healthy polyamorous relationships for people of color. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Communities Magazine published by the Global Ecovillage Network-United States and is passionate about encouraging people to change their perspectives on diversity, relationships, and the world. Crystal lives in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. I'm Your New Black Friend
Preparing for Change
2. Team Members
    Cocreators
    Tokens
    Cheerleaders
3. The Resistance
    Why This? Why Now?
    The Willfully Blind
    My Time to Shine
Doing The Work
4. Diversity Training
5. Community Feedback
6. Identity: My Privilege Is Better Than Yours
    My Identities
    The Workbook: Identity and Privilege
7. Implicit Bias: Life as a Mega Stuf(TM) Oreo(c)
    The Workbook: Implicit Bias
8. Microaggressions, or, It's Just a Compliment!
    The Workbook: Microaggressions
9. Majority Culture: What's Yours Is Mine
    The Workbook: Majority Culture
    Discussion for Tokens With Leadership
Creating Culture Conscious Meetings
10. The Invitation
11. The Location
12. Introductions
13. Ground Rules
14. Conversation and Conflict
15. Saying Good-bye and Feedback
16. The Workbook: Making Community-Wide Change.
Limits to Inclusion - It's Not About You Until It Is
17. A Space for Us
18. How Not to Recruit Leaders
19. Keep On Keepin' On
Tools and Resources
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers