[Libs-Or] Learning While White

[Taylor Worley]

Thank you Matthew, for starting this branch of the discussion.

I've been wondering if a monthly Zoom chat would be beneficial for folks
wanting to learn, chat, ask questions, and share resources. Would anyone be
interested in something like this? I could arrange/moderate/facilitate most
months, I believe. It would have to be later in the evening - probably 7:30
or later.

If anyone is interested, please send me a note and I can do some more
research about how to make the experience most effective. If I don't hear
from anyone, I'll assume that this isn't something that folks feel would be
beneficial at this time.

Thanks,


*Taylor Worley (she/her)                                                 *Youth
Services Librarian
Springfield Public Library
225 5th Street
Springfield, OR 97422
660.988.4289 (cell)
541.726.2243 (office)
taylorlgkw at gmail.com (personal)
tworley at springfield-or.gov (work)



On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 8:34 AM Matthew Baiocchi via Libs-Or <
libs-or at omls.oregon.gov> wrote:

> Listening to our BIPOC colleagues is the best way for us to learn about
> racism, white privilege, and white fragility, but it is not their
> responsibility to teach us about these things (despite this fact, they are
> often called to do just that, oftentimes to their great detriment). We, as
> white library staff, need to talk more with each other about these topics. Taylor
> Worley very generously offered to do this (twice!) during the recent
> Libs-Or discussion about the petition...I'm late to the game but I'd like
> to talk about these things with you, too.
>
>
> I'd like to offer a safe spot to do it. As long as we come from a place of
> learning and understanding, there will be no judgment, and things said will
> be confidential. Realizing the immense extent of racism, white privilege,
> and white fragility in America can be exhausting, frustrating,
> overwhelming, and very uncomfortable. If you'd like, we can keep it off
> Libs-Or and we can use personal emails so we don't run into Oregon's public
> records law.
>
>
> I use hotmail (what is this, the 1990s?!) and my account is mbaiocchi.
>
>
> To help start the discussion, here are the first couple of things that
> really opened my eyes on these subjects. I'd very much enjoy discussing
> them with you:
> - 13th by Ava DuVernay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
> - Dr. Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU
> - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on How to be an Antiracist:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxa43H8m034
>
> There are also three excellent resources I use to help me continue to
> learn. The first is an anti-racism guide (
> https://simmons.libguides.com/anti-oppression/anti-racism) put together
> by Stacy Collins, a Curriculum & Research Librarian and Team Coordinator
> at Simmons University. The second is the OLA EDI Antiracism Committee's
> Training Resources (
> https://ola.memberclicks.net/ola-edi-antiracism-committee-training-resources).
> Lastly, The Emancipator (https://theemancipator.org/), a "reimagining of
> the first antislavery newspapers in the United States," a collaboration of
> The Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe.
>
> We must start doing the heavy lifting on this! I claim no expertise. I
> claim no promise of having all the answers. I definitely do not claim to
> always be right about everything. In short (too late!) what I do claim is a
> willingness to keep learning, and the hope of talking with you.
>
> Have a wonderful Tuesday, all!
>
>
>
> Matthew Baiocchi
>
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> ook
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