White Fragility Episode 4

Fan Squiggy and the six women discuss ideas from “White Fragility” by Robin Diangelo. How do we talk to children about racism? Can we get to equality together? What is the role of the bystander? Why has it taken so long to have many shades of ‘nude’ crayons and undergarments? Plus, seeing Sharon Osborne’s white fragility play out on tv!

Discussion Points:

• Racism in Canada
• Other books and resources on antiracism
• White Fragility in action on television
• Apologizing versus making amends
• The nice guy/‘friend zone’
• The intersectionality of feminism, antiracism, trans and gay rights, fatphobia
• Speaking up/the role of the bystander
• Old movies and media influence
• How to talk to children about racism
• Different shades of skin colour, crayons, underwear, ‘nude’
• Getting it out of the “uncomfortable is rude” realm/ revisiting ‘manners’
• Body positivity

Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:

Book Interrupted Website 

Book Interrupted YouTube Channel

Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo

The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole

‘The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black’ by Desmond Cole in Toronto Life

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

'The Talk': Sheryl Underwood, Sharon Osbourne Discuss Racism

Oprah with Meghan and Harry

Piers Morgan Walks Off Set During Meghan Markle Debate

That ’70s Show

The Big Bang Theory

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Bystander effect

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Milgram experiment

Ghostbusters

knix.ca

Crayola Colors of the World Skin Tone Crayons

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Aubrey Gordon (@yrfatfriend)

MsLindsayM of Lindsay’s Loves (@mslindsaym)