Recommended Reading & Viewings

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
Conscious Language Resources by Rabbit with a Red Pen (Resources for gender and inclusive language, microagressions, and more)
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

Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Writing Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez (2021).
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
Critical Response Process: A Method for Getting Useful Feedback, From Dance to Dessert by Liz Lerman
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

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