Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Lecture, Documentary, and Film Series

Quarterly links to lectures, documentaries, and film on selected topics available for viewing at your leisure

May – July 2016: Building Inclusive Community Documentary Series: Growing up Trans*

• Tom Girls (2009). This American Life, National Public Radio. They’re both 8 years old. And they were both born boys, although it became clear pretty early on that they’d prefer to be girls. (18 minutes)
• Red without Blue (2007). The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past, Directors: Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills. (1 hour 14 minutes)
• Growing Up Trans  In Growing Up Trans, FRONTLINE takes viewers on an intimate and eye-opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families. (1 hour 24 minutes)
• Fostering Resilient Transgender Youth  (2016). Undergraduate student presentation for HDF 445: Contemporary Family Research and Theory which features a evidenced-based and theory-grounded proposal for a summer camp for transgender youth to promote resilience and positive youth development. Presenters:Rhonda Brown, Brianna Lacewell, Ryan Seufer, and Morgan Whisnant (13 minutes).

January-April 2016: Lecture Series on Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and the Workplace: A Value-Added Perspective

• A Place at the Table: Understanding Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.  J. Seidenstein, Duke University (02/11). A short primer on the meaning of diversity, inclusion, and equity for higher education and the workplace.
• Inclusion, Exclusion, Illusion, and Collusion. H. Turnball, TEDxTalks, published 09/13. Unconscious bias as barriers to diversity and inclusion, and its implications for the workplace are discussed.
• Engaging Diversity: Its Importance for 21st Century Education. Dr. Patricia Gurin, 2014 Nancy Cantor Lecture on Intellectual Diversity, The University of Michigan, 02/27/13.