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Challenge Habit Microactions

A new Challenge Habit series will begin each semester. Individuals may join at any time and may drop out whenever they need to.

Learn How it Works

Primer Series

Anyone joining the Challenge for the very first time is encouraged to participate in our three-microaction primer series. After you have read, watched, or listened to the microaction:

REFLECT: Take note of any thoughts, emotions, or feelings in your body that surface. Record your reflection in a way that makes sense for you—write in a journal, make art, take a voice memo.
CONNECT: If you chose, you can connect with others by sharing your reflection. Options to connect more communally include sharing on the Google Group or having a conversation with coworkers, friends, or family.

John Lewis

John Lewis' Final Statement to the Country

Morgan Freeman reads the words of John Lewis’ final essay, which he requested be published in the New York Times on the day of his funeral: “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation.”

French trading with Native Americans

Settler Privilege

Read Dina Gilio-Whitaker's article "Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege Is So Hard to Talk About."

adam ruins the suburbs

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Adam Ruins Everything explains redlining, the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

Spring 2024 Microactions

Feb 05, 2024

Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present

Jan 29, 2024

What You Should Know About the Mardi Gras Indians: For more than a century, New Orleans’ Black residents have donned Native-inspired attire to celebrate Carnival

Prior Microactions

Fall 2023 Microactions
10/16/2023: Microaction part two: Teaching AI Ethics: Human Labour

10/16/2023: Microaction part one: Video game clips and old videos are flooding social media about Israel and Gaza

10/09/2023: Vatican officially repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery

10/02/2023: Mia Mingus, keynote speaker at The Disability Intersectionality Summit

08/18/2023: Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

09/11/2023: On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington
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Spring 2023 Microactions
05/01/2023: The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”

04/19/2023: Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Rebellion: Crash Course Black American History #41

04/11/2023: Still Resistances to Believing in White Language Supremacy

04/04/2023: Resisting State-Sanctioned Violence by Uplifting Black Trans Movements

03/28/2023: Women of Color and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage

03/20/2023: Q&A: Malala Yousafzai Says World Should Stand by Afghan Women

03/13/2023: Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

03/01/2023: Celebrating Black Hair: Crown And Glory

02/20/2023: We Can't Address Disability Without Addressing Race

02/13/2023: PBS NewsHour: Searching for Justice

02/06/2023: If Affirmative Action Ends, College Admissions May Be Changed Forever

01/30/2023: The Anti-Racist Educator: 20 Favourite Anti-Racist Songs

01/23/2023: The Four Levels of Racism

01/17/2023: Grace Lee Boggs' Lasting Legacy in the AAPI Movement
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Fall 2022 Microactions
12/12/2022: BODIES AS RESISTANCE: Claiming the political act of being oneself

12/05/2022: How To Survive The End Of The World, Episode: Freedom Dreams

11/29/2022: The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality

11/21/2022: When a Girl’s First Period Calls for Celebration, Not Stigma

11/14/2022: Resmaa Menakem: It Happened To Your People

11/07/2022: Transcendence: Exploration of Spirituality, sexuality, gender, and transformation (includes photos of partial nudity; paired microaction part two)

11/07/2022: Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds on What the World Doesn’t Get About Native Artists (paired microaction part one)

10/31/2022: What Does Justice Look Like for Survivors?

10/24/2022: When The Water Breaks

10/17/2022: Getting Called Out: How To Apologize

10/10/2022: Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice (paired microaction, part two)

10/10/2022: Intersectionality & disability, ft Keri Gray (paired microaction, part one)

10/04/2022: You Pose a Problem: A Conversation with Sara Ahmed

09/26/2022: A Conversation With Latinos on Race | Op-Docs

09/19/2022: The Changing Nature of Fighting the Prison Industrial Complex

09/12/2022: Upstander Project: Doctrine of Discovery

09/06/2022: Climate Denial’s Racist Roots

08/03/2022: The Nocturnists podcast, Black Voices in Healthcare series, Episode 2 "Joy"
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Spring 2022 Microactions
2/28/2022: How textbooks taught white supremacy

3/7/2022: This 'Equity' picture is actually White Supremacy at work

3/14/2022: bell hooks: "Love as Practice of Freedom"

3/21/2022: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy

3/28/2022: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

4/4/2022: Infographic: What is Tone Policing and Why is it Wrong?

4/11/2022: 5 Tips for Being an Ally

4/18/2022: Week eight part one: How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy

4/18/2022: Week eight part two: The Iroquois Influence on the Constitution

4/25/2022: History of White Backlash Against Progress: Rev. Dr. William Barber

5/2/2022: Living & Dating as a Trans Woman | 4 People Explain

5/9/2022: How Can We Win?
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Spring 2021 Microactions
3/15/2021: #GoodTrouble
America recently lost a racial justice hero - Congressman John Lewis. The youngest speaker at the March on Washington, jailed and beaten fighting for civil rights, he led sit ins and marches. Read his final letter to America in which he calls for us to lay “...down the heavy burdens of hate at last…”

3/16/2021: Is your comfort zone part of the problem?
In this article, WNBA Washington Mystics player Natasha Cloud discusses the reasons why she and other WBNA players used their platforms in 2020 to expose the silences of racial injustice.

3/17/2021: When and why were “white” people invented?
Read to learn how our current polarized moment traces back to the divide and conquer strategy that led to a subset of people being labeled “white” people.

3/18/2021: Representations of Trans Folks
In this video Black transgender activist and actress Laverne Cox talks with correspondant Al Roker about the documentary film “Disclosure” and the importance of representation to thinking about the lives of Black trans folks.

3/19/2021: What does race have to do with immigration?
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas for a response to a story in The Atlantic, written by David Frum, proposing the U.S. cut legal immigration by half.

3/20/2021: COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Violence
In this video Andrew Yang talks with Lucy Lui about the spate of anti-Asian violence that began at the beginning of the pandemic and continues until now and offers ways that people might fight against this.

3/21/2021: Beginning to share your work
Interrupt the pattern of silences we have been considering this week, by speaking openly with family, friends, and colleagues about what you’re doing and learning in the 21-Day Challenge.

3/22/2021: The Injustice of the Moment Is not an Aberration
Michelle Alexander contextualizes the US’s 2020 state of racism/white supremacy as an inevitable outcome of a collective narrative steeped in denial.

3/23/2021: Teaching While White
Hosted by longtime educators Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, TWW’s podcast focuses on how whiteness shows up in the education sector and what anti-racist educators are doing to challenge that. In this episode, they discuss teaching while white.

3/24/2021: This is America?
Childish Gambino's music video, "This is America" challenges us to think about the racism.

3/25/2021: What Being Hispanic & Latinx Means in the United States
Fernanda Ponce shares what she’s learning about the misunderstanding and related mistreatment of the incredibly diverse ethnic category people in U.S. call Hispanic.

3/26/2021: Mental Health Resources for African Americans
This article includes a list of mental health resources for African Americans. Review this list.

3/27/2021: Interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
Many don't realize that Black Lives Matter was initially founded by three Black queer women. In this TED Talk video, the founders discuss what led to the founding of BLM and the growth of the movement beyond its founding.

3/28/2021: The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
In this clip from "Adam Ruins Everything," host Adam Conover explores the racial dynamics of the suburbs.

3/29/2021: Short NYT Op-Ed Videos about Race
In this series of videos, Americans discuss their varying relationships to race.

3/30/2021: Seeing Whiteness Podcast
Host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explore Whiteness. In this episode, they “turn the lens.”

3/31/2021: Settler Fragility
In this article, author Dina Gilio-Whitaker discusses the connection between settler colonialism and white fragility

4/1/2021: Rest for Resistance
Visit this website.

4/2/2021: He wants to save classics from whiteness
This New York Times article discusses the efforts of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who teaches and researches in classics.

4/3/2021: Audre Lorde Project
Visit the social media websites of The Audre Lorde Project.

4/4/2021: Reflection on Institution
Think about how the work that we have done might impact the way you communicate with others on campus.
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