Welcome to the Sanford School of Public Policy's resource library for issues related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We hope these items are useful to you.
Educational Resources
Paying an Unfair Price: The Financial Penalty for LGBT Women in America
This report focuses on the economic challenges facing LGBT women across the nation in three critical areas: jobs, health and family. It also offers recommendations for change. Report; Center for American Progress and the Movement Advancement Project
Discrimination in America: Experiences and Views of LGBTQ Americans
Findings from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults illustrate the significant experiences of discrimination faced across multiple areas of life by LGBTQ people in America today. Report; NPR
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
In Exile and Pride, Eli Clare offers an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. Book by Eli Clare
Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness
Eli Clare analyzes both disability and transgender communities through a comparative lens from its terminology to its form of discrimination. Through words and images of experience, Clare explores the internal struggles of living in a distinguished body that becomes eye-catching in a negative way. Research Article by Eli Clare
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Butler’s primary aims in the work are to make a case for rejecting an essential female identity as the basis for feminist practice and to come up with an account of gender formation without recourse to the female body as a natural phenomenon. Butler’s theoretical approach in this project is eclectic, drawing from poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, French and American feminism, linguistics, and the history of ideas. Essay by Judith Butler
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Habib's memoir explores faith, art, love, and queer sexuality throughout her life as an Ahmadi Muslim in Pakistan and then as a refugee in Canada. She shares her experiences with threats from Islamic extremists, bullying, racism, poverty, arranged marriage, and self-liberation. Book by Samra Habib
Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, two culture writers for The New York Times, devour TV, movies, art, music and the internet to find the things that move them — to tears, awe and anger.
The Black Girl Dangerous podcast aims to amplify the voices, experiences and expressions of queer and trans people of color. This podcast is hosted by Mia McKenzie.
The Umbrella Podcast, hosted by Glynn M. and Dawson Schacter, is devoted to diverse members of the LGBTQ+ community gathering to talk about a wide range of intersectional, complex issues facing us, internally and externally.
Tobin Low and Kathy Tu offer stories and conversations about the queer experience today.
The Ten, hosted by Zack Stafford, is a weekly look at news and culture through a queer lens. Stafford, alongside reporters and contributors, brings queer voices to the forefront while diving deep into the stories that matter.
The hosts game give, dismantle white supremacy, and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.
Since 2016, Making Gay History, hosted by Eric Marcus, has been bringing the largely hidden history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement to life through the voices of the people who lived it.
After being violently threatened on the street, four young black lesbians struggle to defend themselves in the eyes of the law and the media. Documentary dir. Blair Dorosh-Walther
A captivating look into the daily lives of a group of LGBTQ youth who comprise the "Kiki" scene as they prepare for and perform at fierce and exuberant ballroom competitions in NYC. Documentary dir. Sara Jordeno
This documentary focuses on drag queens living in New York City and their "house" culture, which provides a sense of community and support for the flamboyant and often socially shunned performers. Documentary dir. Jennie Livingston
In the late 1980s, members of Act-Up and other AIDS activists battle hostility and indifference to bring attention to the disease and try to reduce the number of victims while hoping to lead the drive to find a cure. Documentary dir. David France