Even though we are still in the midst of the initial data collection stage of our collaborative project, working within a community of engaged teaching librarians has already had an impact on our teaching. This page is our attempt at capturing the ideas that we have had through "off topic" conversations and resource sharing as we begin to work through a Design Justice lens.
Explore differing perspectives and types of expertise with an examination of two different sources covering Jay-Z's relationship with marijuana, one of a reporter and one from the man himself.
Athletes have often been on the frontlines of cultural conflict about race, gender, and sexuality. Often students are interested in the latest protest, yet may struggle to find scholarly sources on the specific protest they are interested in. The ongoing nature of protests in sports paired with a long history makes it an excellent topic to illustrate the information timeline.
Words have meaning. As you teach about keywords and search strategies, invite students into the library world's conversation around subject headings.
Crowd-sourced resources created by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) exist to help BIPOC librarians, for example, learn how to navigate the nature of the workplace environment.
Popular media outlets produce information that is catered to a specific audience and tend to move from one story to the next, but alternative media producers build content and platforms intended to challenge media bias, anti-black racism, and erasure of historically marginalized communities.
Historically, the names, ideas, and creations of people of the Black Diaspora have been erased, forgotten, and stolen. Explore the story of Nearest Green and his role in the creation of Jack Daniel's whiskey.
A brief introduction of Afrofuturism and its ability to present an alternate perspective and future from a Black lens through a number of cultural and artistic forms of expression.
A discussion of cultural appropriation fits in well with a lesson on the personal and algorithmic bias. Picking a topic that on the surface is likely very familiar to students, but has a deep cultural significance that students may not be aware of is a good way for the lesson to stick. Yoga is one of these topics that has become a sport for "thin, able-bodied, and wealthy" but whose roots is as one of the six major schools of Hinduism.
Contrast a Google image search with the beautiful images from the "How we Show it: Yoga" project.
Moving beyond land acknowledgements, consider the the impact of settler colonialism and violence throughout the world, but more specifically its effects on the indigenous communities in North America and the people of Palestine, in addition to understanding the importance "The Right of Return is LANDBACK" statement.