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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 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
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
'The Talk': Sheryl Underwood, Sharon Osbourne Discuss Racism
Piers Morgan Walks Off Set During Meghan Markle Debate
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Crayola Colors of the World Skin Tone Crayons
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
MsLindsayM of Lindsay’s Loves (@mslindsaym)
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