Challenge Habit Microactions

A new Challenge Habit series will begin each semester. Individuals may join at any time and may drop out whenever they need to.

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Primer Series

Anyone joining the Challenge for the very first time is encouraged to participate in our three-microaction primer series. After you have read, watched, or listened to the microaction:

REFLECT: Take note of any thoughts, emotions, or feelings in your body that surface. Record your reflection in a way that makes sense for you—write in a journal, make art, take a voice memo.
CONNECT: If you chose, you can connect with others by sharing your reflection. Options to connect more communally include sharing on the Google Group or having a conversation with coworkers, friends, or family.

John Lewis' Final Statement to the Country

Morgan Freeman reads the words of John Lewis’ final essay, which he requested be published in the New York Times on the day of his funeral: “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation.”

Settler Privilege

Read Dina Gilio-Whitaker's article "Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege Is So Hard to Talk About."

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Adam Ruins Everything explains redlining, the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

Fall 2022 Microactions

Sep 26, 2022

A Conversation With Latinos on Race | Op-Docs

Sep 19, 2022

The Changing Nature of Fighting the Prison Industrial Complex

Sep 12, 2022

Upstander Project: Doctrine of Discovery

Sep 06, 2022

Climate Denial’s Racist Roots

Aug 03, 2022

The Nocturnists podcast, Black Voices in Healthcare series, Episode 2 "Joy"

Prior Microactions

Spring 2022 Microactions
2/28/2022: How textbooks taught white supremacy

3/7/2022: This 'Equity' picture is actually White Supremacy at work

3/14/2022: bell hooks: "Love as Practice of Freedom"

3/21/2022: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy

3/28/2022: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

4/4/2022: Infographic: What is Tone Policing and Why is it Wrong?

4/11/2022: 5 Tips for Being an Ally

4/18/2022: Week eight part one: How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy

4/18/2022: Week eight part two: The Iroquois Influence on the Constitution

4/25/2022: History of White Backlash Against Progress: Rev. Dr. William Barber

5/2/2022: Living & Dating as a Trans Woman | 4 People Explain

5/9/2022: How Can We Win?
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Spring 2021 Microactions
3/15/2021: #GoodTrouble
America recently lost a racial justice hero - Congressman John Lewis. The youngest speaker at the March on Washington, jailed and beaten fighting for civil rights, he led sit ins and marches. Read his final letter to America in which he calls for us to lay “...down the heavy burdens of hate at last…”

3/16/2021: Is your comfort zone part of the problem?
In this article, WNBA Washington Mystics player Natasha Cloud discusses the reasons why she and other WBNA players used their platforms in 2020 to expose the silences of racial injustice.

3/17/2021: When and why were “white” people invented?
Read to learn how our current polarized moment traces back to the divide and conquer strategy that led to a subset of people being labeled “white” people.

3/18/2021: Representations of Trans Folks
In this video Black transgender activist and actress Laverne Cox talks with correspondant Al Roker about the documentary film “Disclosure” and the importance of representation to thinking about the lives of Black trans folks.

3/19/2021: What does race have to do with immigration?
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas for a response to a story in The Atlantic, written by David Frum, proposing the U.S. cut legal immigration by half.

3/20/2021: COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Violence
In this video Andrew Yang talks with Lucy Lui about the spate of anti-Asian violence that began at the beginning of the pandemic and continues until now and offers ways that people might fight against this.

3/21/2021: Beginning to share your work
Interrupt the pattern of silences we have been considering this week, by speaking openly with family, friends, and colleagues about what you’re doing and learning in the 21-Day Challenge.

3/22/2021: The Injustice of the Moment Is not an Aberration
Michelle Alexander contextualizes the US’s 2020 state of racism/white supremacy as an inevitable outcome of a collective narrative steeped in denial.

3/23/2021: Teaching While White
Hosted by longtime educators Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, TWW’s podcast focuses on how whiteness shows up in the education sector and what anti-racist educators are doing to challenge that. In this episode, they discuss teaching while white.

3/24/2021: This is America?
Childish Gambino's music video, "This is America" challenges us to think about the racism.

3/25/2021: What Being Hispanic & Latinx Means in the United States
Fernanda Ponce shares what she’s learning about the misunderstanding and related mistreatment of the incredibly diverse ethnic category people in U.S. call Hispanic.

3/26/2021: Mental Health Resources for African Americans
This article includes a list of mental health resources for African Americans. Review this list.

3/27/2021: Interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
Many don't realize that Black Lives Matter was initially founded by three Black queer women. In this TED Talk video, the founders discuss what led to the founding of BLM and the growth of the movement beyond its founding.

3/28/2021: The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
In this clip from "Adam Ruins Everything," host Adam Conover explores the racial dynamics of the suburbs.

3/29/2021: Short NYT Op-Ed Videos about Race
In this series of videos, Americans discuss their varying relationships to race.

3/30/2021: Seeing Whiteness Podcast
Host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explore Whiteness. In this episode, they “turn the lens.”

3/31/2021: Settler Fragility
In this article, author Dina Gilio-Whitaker discusses the connection between settler colonialism and white fragility

4/1/2021: Rest for Resistance
Visit this website.

4/2/2021: He wants to save classics from whiteness
This New York Times article discusses the efforts of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who teaches and researches in classics.

4/3/2021: Audre Lorde Project
Visit the social media websites of The Audre Lorde Project.

4/4/2021: Reflection on Institution
Think about how the work that we have done might impact the way you communicate with others on campus.
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