So if you saw that presentation or are on the journey of learning/unlearning yourself, here’s some excellent writing and art to dig into.

Books

Here’s a list of books that taught me a lot and have stuck with me – some fiction, some non-fiction, but all have given me some new perspective and ways of thinking. Also, I’m preemptively sharing my Reading Diversely experiment results below:

• We want to read diversely, so we need to talk about publishing – my blog post with the hard numbers about my reading diversely challenge since 2016.

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K Jemisin
• The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
• 21 Things You Didn’t Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
• The Culture Map by Erin Meyer

Self-Care

• The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
• White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
• The Way, the Enemy, and the Key trilogy by Ryan Holiday
• You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
• Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
• Conflict Resolution and Healthy Relationships – a blog post I wrote after working through healthy conflict.

Podcasts

• Media Indigena
• Hurry Slowly – a longtime fave of mine for self-improvement
  • Sebene Selassie: The Delusion of Separation
• On Being
  • Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem: In Conversation
  • Eula Biss – Talking About Whiteness
• Death, Sex, and Money – a serious fave and deep on empathy.
• Unlocking Us with Brene Brown
  • Brene with Austin Channing Brown on I’m Still Here: Black Diginity in a World Made for Whiteness
• The Secret Life of Canada
• RadioLab
  • The Flag and the Fury
• 1619
• Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
  • Waubgeshig Rice Saw This Apocalypse Coming
• Chosen Family

Free Online Course

• Indigenous Canada from the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta

This should get you going! I’d love to see your recommendations in the comments :)

Also, you may have noticed this is my second collaboration with Titilope. If you are interested, here’s the link to my interview with her on my former podcast, Migration Patterns.