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The JEDI Team

Resources

Indigenous Poples

(Books)

  • Alicia Elliot: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

  • Billy-Ray Belcourt: A History of My Brief Body

  • Bob Joseph: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

  • Robin Wall-Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass

  • Tanya Talaga: All Our Relations

  • Tanya Talaga: Seven Fallen Feathers

  • Thomas King: The Inconvenient Indian

  • Kelsey Borgford & Cole Forrest: Once the Smudge is Lit

  • Michelle Good: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

  • Angela Sterritt: Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

  • Cara-Lyn Morgan: Building a Nest from the Bones of my People

  • Suzanne Methot: Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing

  • Jordin TooToo & Stephen Brunt: Mind Over Matter: Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope

  • Yolanda Bonnell: White Girls in Moccasins

(Podcasts)

  • All my Relations with Adrienne Keene and Matika Wilbur

  • CANADALAND Investigates: Return to Thunder Bay

  • Media Indigena with Rick Harp

  • Unreserved with Rosanna Deerchild

  • Unrooted – The Indigenous Foundation

  • 2 Crees in a Pod

  • Kīwew

  • Love, Land & Spirit

  • Kuper Island

  • Land Back

  • Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club

  • First Peoples Lawcast

  • The Henceforward

(Online Resource Links)

(Formal Education)

Racialized Peoples

(Books)

  • Frances Henry et al: The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities

  • Desmond Cole: The Skin We’re In

  • Edward Said: Orientalism

  • Souvankham Thammavongsa: How To Pronounce Knife: Stories

  • Robyn Maynard: Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

  • Scott Plous: Understanding prejudice and discrimination

  • Samira Habib: We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

  • Jack Wang: We Two Alone

  • Linda Rui Feng: Swimming Back to Trout River

  • Tessa McWatt: Shame on Me: An Anatomy Of Race and Belonging

  • Monnica Williams: Managing Microaggressions

  • Monnica Williams: Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities

  • Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention

  • Eternity Martis: They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up

  • Joseph Mensah: Black Canadians

  • Marcelo Hernandez Castillo: The Children of the Land (American)

(Podcasts)

  • Colour Code with Denise Balkisson and Hannah Sung

  • Don’t call me resilient with Vinita Srivastava

  • The Secret Life of Canada with Leah Simone-Bowen and Falen Johnson

  • Born and Raised with Alisha Sawhney and Al Donato

  • Black Tea with Dalton Higgins and Melayna Williams

  • Woke or Whateva

  • Intersectionality matters with Kimberle Crenshaw (American)

(Online Resource Links)

(Formal Education)

Disabilities

(Books)

  • Laughing at my Nightmare (Shane Burcaw)

  • Pride against Prejudice: Transforming Attitude to Disability (Jenny Morris)

  • Its Nerves: Notes on a Disability (Kelly Davio)

  • Disability Visibility: First-person stories from the 21st century (Alice Wong)

  • Dis/ability Studies: Theorising disablism and ableism (Dan Goodley)

  • “This Is What Disabled Looks Like”: The Sometimes Hard-To-See Line Between Visible and Invisible Disabilities (Zipporah Arielle) [link]

  • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner)

  • Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Alice Wong)

  • Mom on Wheels: The Power of Purpose for a Parent With Paraplegia (Marjorie Aunos)

  • A Life Impossible: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence (Steve Gleason & Jeff Duncan)

(Podcasts)

  • Disability Visibility Podcast

  • Disability With Possibility

  • Disability After Dark

(Online Resource Links)

Mental Health & Psychological:

(Books)

  • Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans (Jenny Wang)

  • Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created The Stigma of Mental Illness (Roy Richard Grinker)

  • Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities (Monnica T. Williams, Daniel C. Rosen, & Jonathan W. Kanter)

  • The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice (Staci K. Hines)

  • Room (Emma Donoghue)

  • The Queer Mental Health Workbook: A Creative Self-Help Guide Using CBT, CFT and DBT by Dr. Brian Dunlop

  • Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin Curtice

  • Why has Nobody Told Me This Before? By Dr. Julie Smith

  • Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay by Liz Fosselin and Mollie West Duffy

  • An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Oliver Sacks)

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Gabor Maté[1] )

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk)

  • The Anti-Anxiety Program: A Workbook of Strategies to Overcome Worry, Panic, and Phobias (Peter J. Norton, Martin M. Antony)

  • The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook (3rd ed.) (Martin M. Antony, Richard P. Swinson)

  • 10 Simple Solutions to Panic: How to Overcome Panic Attacks, Calm Physical Symptoms, and Reclaim Your Life (Martin M. Antony, Randi E. McCabe)

  • Insomnia and Anxiety (Colleen E. Carney, Jack D. Edinger)

  • Overcoming Insomnia A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach Workbook (Jack D. Edinger, Colleen E. Carney)

  • Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep: Solutions to Insomnia for Those with Depression, Anxiety or Chronic Pain (Colleen E. Carney, Rachel Manber)

  • Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (Dennis Greenberger, Christine A. Padesky)

  • The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia’s Feared and Forgotten (Susan Doherty)

(Podcasts)

  • Dear Therapists (Lori Gottlieb and Guy Winch)

  • Therapy for Black Girls (Joy Harden Bradford)

  • DCO Discourse

  • Bunny Hugs and Mental Health

  • What Really Works? A Mental Health Podcast for Young People

(Online Resource Links)

(Formal Education)

  • A Comprehensive Guide to Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2nd ed.) (Michael L. Wehmeyer, Ivan Brown, Maire Percy, W. L. Fung).

  • Handbook of Intellectual Disabilities: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice (Johnny L. Matson)

  • Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved (Russell Barkley)

  • Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (Gabor Maté)

  • Autism and Masking: How and Why People Do It, and the Impact It Can Have (Felicity Sedgewick, Laura Hull, Helen Ellis)

  • The Science of Making Friends: Helping Socially Challenged Teens and Young Adults by Elizabeth Laugeson

(Online Resource Links)

Developmental Disabilities

(Books)

Learning Disabilities

(Books)

  • Handbook of Learning Disabilities (H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham)

  • Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention (2nd ed.) (J. M. Fletcher, G. R. Lyon, L. S. Fuchs, M. A. Barnes)

  • Fish in a Tree (Lynda Mullaly Hunt)

  • Parenting Dyslexia: A Comprehensive Guide to Helping Kids Develop Confidence, Combat Shame, and Achieve Their True Potential (Lisa Rappaport & Jody Lyons)

  • The Girl from Aleppo (Nujeen Mustafa)

  • Welcome to Biscuits Land (Jessica Thom)

  • What To Say When Nothing Seems to Work (Adele Lafrance and Ashley Miller)

(Online Resource Links)

Visual & Hearing

(Books)

  • Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness (Alexander Sally Hobert)

  • Shadows Behind the Wall (Blair Clifford)

  • Words in my Hand (Daniel Lee Chambers)

  • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (Andrew Leland)

  • True Biz: Reese's Book Club (Sara Novic)

  • The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory (Thomas Fuller)

  • Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law (Haben Girma)

  • Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice (David S. Tatel)

  • Connecting Dots: A Blind Life (Joshua A. Miele & Wendell Jamieson)

  • Just Human: The Quest for Disability Wisdom, Respect, and Inclusion (Arielle Silverman & Ann Narcisian Videan)

  • Deaf Culture, Our Way: Anecdotes from the Deaf Community (Samuel K. Holcomb, Thomas K. Holcomb, & Roy K. Holcomb)

  • Inside Deaf Culture (Carol Padden & Tom Humphries)

(Podcasts)

  • Be My Eyes

  • AIRACast - podcast that focuses on news and tips on using AIRA effectively

  • Living Blind Podcast [Link]

(Online Resource Links)

Neurodiversity

(Books)

  • Neurodiversity: From Phenomenology to Neurobiology and Enhancing Technologies (Lawrence K. Fung)

  • Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Steve Silberman)

  • Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (Devon Price)

  • Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions (Temple Grandin)

  • Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically (Devon Price)

  • Bright Girl, Lacks Focus: A Neurodivergent Memoir (Cindy Robinson)

(Podcasts)

  • AAC Town

  • The Squarepeg Podcast

  • Exploring Different Brains

  • The Self Advocate

(Online Resource Links)

Weight Bias/Fataphobia

(Books)

  • Lindo Bacon: Health at Every Size

  • Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch: Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach (4th edition)

  • Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • Heather Brown & Nancy Ellis-Orday: Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice

  • Aubrey Gordon: What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat

  • Caroline Dooner: The F*ck it Diet: Eating Should be Easy

  • Lindo Bacon: Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

  • Lexie & Lindsay Kite: More than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament

  • Dr. Sarah Pegrum: Break the Binds of Weight Stigma

  • Kelly Jensen: Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy

  • Chrissy King: The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom

  • Christy Harrison: Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

  • Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

  • Rebecca Scritchfield: Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out--and Never Say Diet Again

  • Dalia Kinsey: Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

(Podcasts)

  • Weight Neutral Health Promotion in Schools [Link]

  • WNW Series: Building Trust in Ourselves and Our Bodies with Aaron Flores [Link]

  • Race, Gender, and the Body with Savala Nolan [Link]

  • Rebel Eaters Club with Virgie Tovar

  • Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

  • Fat Girls Club

  • She’s All Fat: A Fat Positive Podcast

  • Living in this Queer Body

  • Break the Diet Cycle

  • Dieticians Unplugged

  • Fat Joy with Sophia Apostol

  • Matter of Fat

  • HAES® Pod: The Official Health at Every Size® Podcast by ASDAH

  • Food Psych

  • The Anti-Diet Club Podcast

  • Live Unrestricted

  • Embody Food Freedom

  • The Body Image Podcast

  • Butterfly: Let’s Talk

  • Weight Stigma and Redefining Healthy [Link]

(Online Resource Links)

(Formal Education)

Women & Marginalized Genders

(Books)

  • Angela Y. Davis: Women, Race, & Class

  • Bell Hooks: Feminism is for Everybody

  • Gloria Steinem: Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

  • Lindy West: Shrill

  • Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist

  • Roxane Gay: Not That Bad (TW: sexual assault)

  • Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

  • Alok Vaid-Menon: Beyond the Gender Binary

(Podcasts)

  • Alright, Now What?: Canadian Women’s Foundation

  • Les sorcières: The Brand is Female (French)

  • Unladylike with Cristen Conger and Carline Ervin

(Online Resource Links)

(Formal Education)

2SLGBTQIA+

(Books)

  • Darrel J. McLeod: Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

  • Catherine E. McKinley: Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing

  • Essex Hemphill: Brother to Brother: New Writing by Black Gay Men

  • Michelle Tea: Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing

  • Bennett L. Singer: Growing Up Gay/Lesbian: A Literary Anthology

  • Sue Hyde: Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World

  • Dan Savage & Terry Miller: It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

  • Matt Bernstein Sycamore: Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity

  • C. Riley Snorton: Black on Both Sides: A racial history of trans identity

  • Burton and Loveland: Out in Central Pennsylvania

  • Tourmaline: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnshon

  • Tommy Dorfman: Maybe This Will Save Me

  • Danny Ahmad Ramadan: Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

  • Molly Wizenberg: The Fixed Stars

  • Meredith Talusan: Fairest

  • Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House

  • Ivan Coyote: Rebent Sinner

  • Rowan Jette Knox: Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family

  • Jacob Tobia: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

  • Ma-Nee Chacaby: A Two-spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

  • Samra Habib: We Have Always Been Here

  • Madeline Dyer: Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

  • Robin Stevenson & Vivian Rosas: Queer history A to Z: 100 Years of LGBTQ+ Activism

  • Lisa C. Moore: Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

(Podcasts)

  • Darrel J. McLeod: Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

  • Tommy Pico, Fran Tirado, Dennis Norris II, Joe Osmundson: Food 4 Thot

  • Cameron Esposito: Queery

  • Morgan Page: One from the Vaults

  • Jeffrey Masters: LGBTQ&A

  • HER App: Bad Queers

  • QueerAF

  • Sam Wise: Being LGBTQ

  • Making Gay History

  • Gender Reveal

  • The Laverne Cox Show

  • CanQueer

  • Two Spirit Talks

(Online Resource Links)

  • OUTSaskatoon Resource Library (e.g., coming out as a teen, coming out as an adult, allyship, terminology)

  • Pflag Canada (Information and support for parents, families, friends, co-workers and others)

  • MindOut (MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay men, bisexual, trans, and queer people):

  • It Gets Better (a project whose mission is to uplift, empower, and connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth around the globe)

  • Everyone is Gay (a collection of voices to give advice and support to LGBTQIA youth)

  • LGBT Youthline (Ontario-wide 2SLGBTQ+ peer-support HelpLine for ages 16-29)

  • Egale (Egale’s vision is a Canada, and ultimately a world, without homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and all other forms of oppression. Contains resources, research, awareness, education, and legal advocacy

  • LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory (free, searchable database of all kinds of doctors, medical professionals and healthcare providers knowledgeable and sensitive to the unique health needs of LGBTQ+ people in the USA and Canada):

  • TransCare+ (works toward better care for all trans and gender diverse communities across Canada. Focus on supporting the health, care and wellness of trans and gender diverse communities through programming, research, and advocacy)

  • Trans Care BC (list of resources to help navigate the health care system and find the professionals you need):

  • CNIB Pride Connection (Intended for adults who are blind or partially sighted and are members of the LGBTQ2S+ community. Participants from across the country meet monthly to share experiences, listen to guest speakers, and discuss topics chosen by the group)

  • LGBTQ2S+ Toolkit, Celebrating Neurodiversity, Gender Diversity and the Community

  • Rainbow Railroad (global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide)

(Formal Education)

Workplace/Job Search Resources

(Online Resource Links)

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