Recommended readings & Viewings
DECOLONIZATION & ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
ARTICLES/VIDEOS
ANTI-RACISM BOOKS
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
ON CREATIVITY & NARRATIVE & CREATIVE WRITING
- 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.