Join us on April 8 @ 530pm to discuss our selection for Women's History Month. In this collection, Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution.
Hope to see you there!
For our February book club meeting (2/11 @ 530pm), we will be reading this bestselling book detailing core issues with our criminal justice system.
Feel free to drop comments or questions you'd like to discuss below. See you there!
More resources for Black History Month
Black History month resources [includes books, movies, and podcasts] https://www.instagram.com/p/CK22myeB7DK/?igshid=1v2wiuflzntv3
10 books written by BIPOC to read in 2021
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKPbnMBFpOm/?igshid=17ozqq44upxga
Books about Black joy https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUnBAqFirC/?igshid=1mdk8l1f1upjp
For our December book club meeting (date TBA), we will be reading this history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples that reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
Feel free to drop comments or questions you'd like to discuss below. See you there!
Thank you to all who participated in our book club meeting. If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading this book. Horribly sad, but valuable information for us to learn from.
We began the meeting with a land acknowledgement because it's important to recognize the land we are on belongs to Indigenous People. Use the link from the 11/30 post to learn more about the land you are on.
We must acknowledge with respect (as a non-Native person) that the land on which we stand, live, and learn, is the traditional territory of the Ute, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Sioux Peoples. The treaty of fort Laramie 1851 & 1868 along with cession 426 displaced these people and took their sacred land. In addition, hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people were slaughtered by the us government on this land during the Sand Creek massacre.
We must honor all indigenous people past, present, and future, who lived off of this land throughout generations. We recognize that government, academic and cultural institutions, our nation, stole this land and continue to enact exclusions and erasures of Indigenous Peoples.
May this acknowledgement demonstrate a commitment to working to dismantle ongoing legacies of settler colonialism, oppression and inequities, and to recognize the hundreds of Indigenous Nations who continue to resist, live, create, and uphold their sacred relations across their lands. We honor the past, current, and future contributions of the indigenous people to whom this land is sacred and recognize: this is still indigenous land.
Here are some additional resources you might want to check out:
Info/stats about Native Americans in the legal profession: https://centerforlegalinclusiveness.org/Blog/9382917
Without a Whisper: documentary describing the influence of Indigenous women on the suffrage movement
Missing & Murdered podcast about the missing and murdered Indigenous women (that should be national news but isn't)
This Land podcast about a murdered Muskogee Nation man in Oklahoma
Organizations to support: Coalition to Stop Violence against Native Women; National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center; First Nations Development Institute; American Indian College Fund; Center for Native American Youth; Indian Law Resource Center; Red Circle Project; Honor the Earth; Idle no More
Our October 2020 book club pick is Dare to Lead by Brené Brown. Feel free to use this thread to post thoughts about the book and I hope to see you on the Zoom.
It was great seeing everyone during our book club discussion last week. I wanted to recap some resources we shared.
Check out Brene Brown's Netflix special, Call to Courage; her podcast "Dare to Lead" coming 10/19; and other resources for the book (including a daring leadership assessment and workbook to use along with the book) at https://daretolead.brenebrown.com/
Also, check out CWBA President Miranda Hawkins' "On What Grounds" recordings (on Facebook or LinkedIn) for practical messaging utilizing some of the same themes from Brene's book.
More Women's History Month & RBG resources
List of books to read about women's history: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2032-power-sister-20-new-books-on-women-s-history
The Second Gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, reads I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CL7BnCSHqw1/?igshid=kklzw5onpir7
Women's history coloring set: https://linktr.ee/thehappyteacherspalette
RBG Coloring Book: https://www.sheknows.com/living/slideshow/5123/ruth-bader-ginsburg-coloring-book/