Women’s History Month: 31 Days of Race & Gender
Women’s History Month
31 Days of Race & Gender
This year, we challenged ourselves to engage with one thing a day related to race and gender. It could be a podcast, a webinar recording, a video, an article, starting a new book, anything. We started compiling resources for ourselves right as the month began, and we’re excited to share them with you here. Of course, this isn’t an exhaustive list of these complex topics — it’s just a beginning. Challenging ourselves to start learning and engaging is the first step, and it’s our hope that it’ll build a positive habit.
You may also notice that not every resource here is coffee-related. Over the past year, we’ve also become increasingly aware that the coffee industry isn’t capable of creating change on its own. It’s not a unique challenge to coffee, not in the least. Real change doesn’t come from one siloed industry, it comes from the strength of many. The lives and identities of everyone who works in coffee are complex. Women contain multitudes. Intersectionality has taught us there are so many facets to the challenges and successes we face. We owe many other industries a great debt for addressing change and gender equity. Here at the WICP, we’re looking forward to learning from those women and activists who have both gone before us and are looking to the future.
Each item on the list below is related to the day of the month it represents. On March 8, we will be hosting our own online panel event to celebrate International Women’s Day. Please feel free to suggest recommendations for resources, too! We love hearing from you.
323 Days of Covid: The Lasting Impact on Women (hosted by Black Women’s Blueprint)
Spark Change for Justice: #SayHerName (Hosted by the Brooklyn Community Foundation)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Webinar: Produc[H]er Profile (Hosted by the Coffee Coalition for Racial Equity)
“Searching for Gwendolyn Brooks” (by Bernard Ferguson in The Paris Review Daily -- to be paired with the full recording and transcript of a reading by Gwendolyn Brooks herself)
How Philanthropy Can Address Anti-black Racism And Bias With An Intersectional Lens (Hosted by Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC))
Phyllis Johnson’s Keynote Address at the 2019 AFCA Conference in Kigali, Rwanda
Webinar: International Women’s Day Celebration & Panel Event (Hosted by WICP to benefit the IWCA)
Coffee Talk: On Being Black in Coffee with Phyllis Johnson & Alicia Adams (Hosted by the Wond’ry)
Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It's a Sign of Disrespect (TIME Magazine)
Why Women Aren’t Using Your Ag App (AgriLinks)
Conversation with Ciera Young of Mama’s Brew Coffee (Hosted by the Matchbook Coffee Podcast)
McIntosh, Peggy. “How to recognize your white privilege — and use it to fight inequality.“ (Ted Talk)
“Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers” (National LGBTQ Task Force)
Michelle Johnson Interviews Margaret Nyamumbo On Seed To Cup (a podcast hosted by the Sprudge network)
Davis, Angela. Women, Race, and Class.
Speech by Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I A Woman?” (to be paired with Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism written by bell hooks)
Meeting the Moment: PGE’s Response to COVID-19 (An interview with Kimberly Easson, Founder of Partnership for Gender Equity)
Intersectionality Matters: A Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw (Hosted by Haymarket Books)
Storytelling While Black and Female: Conjuring Beautiful Experiments in Past and Future Worlds (From the Intersectionality Matters! podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw)
#MeToo #AidToo and Experiences of African Women (African Feminism)
Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding: Reflections from South Sudan (African Feminism)
All About Movements: Why Building Movements Creates Deeper Change (CREA’s Feminist Leadership for Social Transformation Series)
A Litany for Survival, by Audre Lorde (Hosted by the Audre Lorde Project)
Webinar on the impact of the Gender Household Approach in East Africa (Hosted by Hans R. Neumann Stiftung)
Gender and trade: A fresh look at the evidence (International Trade Forum Magazine)
The Echoing Ida Collection (edited by Kemi Alabi, Cynthia R. Greenlee, and Janna A. Zinzi)
KANJU (a film based off The Bright Continent by Dayo Olopade, to be paired with “Africa’s Tech Edge”)
“Unbought And Unbossed’: When a Black Woman Ran for the White House” (by Jackson Lander, Smithsonian Mag)
The Portal Series: Reflections on Feminist Leadership Through Crisis with Latanya Mapp Frett and Shruthi Jayaram (Global Fund for Women)