Processing Verbal Racist Violence
In this clip, a Black immigrant grad student recounts an incident of racist and xenophobic harassment at a store.
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People Making Their Money and Name Off of Kids Who Look Like Us
In this clip, a Black grad student talks about being in spaces where people talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.
Mental Health Care for Brown Folk During the Pandemic
In this clip, a UW student describes his experience attempting to seek mental health care during the pandemic.
Living Downtown During the Height of the Summer 2020 Protests
In this clip, a UW student describes his anxiety and fear with living downtown and commuting during the BLM protests given the heightened racist violence that plagued the area.
Reactions in the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd
Listen to the vice provost and a student talk about what it was like in Seattle in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
Dual Pandemics
Listen as the Dean of the UW Graduate school talks about how she experienced the dual pandemic in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
Putting Kindness Back In
Listen as a son shares with his mother his philosophy behind being involved in BLM – it is a way for him to be involved in putting kindness in where others might put hatred.
Participating in Capitalism While Hating It
Two Black business owners reflect on the legacy of colonialism and how they operate under the continued coloniality of U.S. capitalism.
Shifting Our Values to Dismantle Systems
In this clip, two Black business owners discuss what it would look like to create economic systems that are equitable and value their communities.
Generational Resilience
In this clip, Kowan and Felix discuss the benefits of elder mentorship and the persistence of structural racism.
Changing the Systems
In this clip, Dr. Joseph asks Dr. Duran to describe how they direct their anger and energy to create change toward systems.
Speaking Up Is a Gift for People
Dr. Joseph asks her interviewee about how they process and where in their body they process white supremacy.
Racism on the Sly
Two sisters discuss the subtleties of racism in the workplace especially as work moves online during the pandemic.
How Old Were You When You Realized You Were Black or Race Was a Thing?
Two Black men share stories of when they first “realized they were Black.”
Subtle vs. Overt Racism
Black man describes the differences between experiencing the overt racism growing up in Chicago versus the subtle racism that occurred in Seattle.
When Am I Going to Be Good Enough
A young Black woman describes an experience in which she and her friends were unjustly targeted during a school event.
What I Lost Being in These Mostly White Spaces
Black woman shares her experiences growing up in and going to majority white schools and being in majority white spaces.
The Black Tax
Two Black Gen X era sisters, one West Coast, one East, talking the summer of 2020 about microaggressions during the dual pandemics
The Support Structure Has Failed
Black woman describe her experiences with intersectional racism in the workforce.
Microaggressions
Two students discuss when and how they experiences interpersonal and internalized racism.
N Word, Power, and Racialized Violence
Dialogue partners talk about what it means to grapple with racialized violence in the U.S.
Talking Race at Home
Students tell interviewers where they talk about race and how they talk about it between home and school.
Racism in Science
Interracial friends talk about how racist science as a field is especially in terms of population samples
It’s Not My Responsibility to Teach You Everything About What Racism Is
Black grad student in dialogue with fellow Black grad student about how to set limits to preserve energy
I’m Not the Submissive Asian Woman You Think I Am
Health worker recalls a day a white man decided to educate her on what Mongolians are and that she looked like a “Mongol” & being seen as lesser