Recommended readings & Viewings

DECOLONIZATION & ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

ARTICLES/VIDEOS

• A Brief, Convoluted History of the Word ‘Intersectionality’, The Cut
• Anti-Racism Daily Newsletter by Nicole Cardoza
• End Hollywood Whitewashing by Jami Nakamura Lin, Anti-Racism Daily
• Imagining a Better Future: An Introduction to Teaching and Learning about Settler Colonialism in Canada by Andrea Eidinger and Sarah York-Bertram
  
• On Seeing and Being Seen: Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love, Alicia Elliott, Room Magazine
• On Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary by Claudia Rankine and Beth Loffreda, Lit Hub, 2015
• The Skin We're In,  Documentary - Acclaimed journalist Desmond Cole explores what it is to be Black in 21st century Canada. Do Black
• Lives Matter here? Directed by Charles Officer
• Unpack Middle Eastern Stereotypes in Hollywood by Ida Yalzadeh, Anti-Racism Daily

ANTI-RACISM BOOKS​

• Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft  by Janelle Adsit
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

SCREENWRITING BOOKS 

• Invisible Ink by Brian McDonald
• Making A Good Script Great by Linda Seger
• Screenplay by Syd Field
• Screenwriting 434 by Lew Hunter
• Scriptwriting for Web Series: Writing for the Digital Age by Marie Drennan, Yuri Baranovsky, and Vlad Baranovsky
• Story by Robert McKee
• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri
• The Coffee Break Screenwriter by Pilar Alessandra
• The Hollywood Standard by Christopher Riley
• The Secret of Life through Screenwriting by Joy Cheriel Brown
• The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
• Writing Screenplays That Sell by Michael Hague
• Writing the TV Drama by Pamela Douglas

ON CREATIVITY & NARRATIVE & CREATIVE WRITING

• A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, & Narrative Craft in Writing by David Mura
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
• Wired for Story by Lisa Cron
• Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers, by Janelle Adsit  and Renée M. Byrd

 RESOURCES/LINKS

• 5 Films to Indigenize your watch-at-Home movie list
• 50 Years of Indigenous-Made Cinema in Canada
• A guide to essential, underrated, and flat-out extraordinary films by black women directors
• Great Women Animators (Canadian, 1900 to present)
• IsumaTV is a collaborative multimedia platform for Indigenous filmmakers and media organizations.