Beyond Beloved Conversations: Resource Library

Articles:

Books: 

  • Me & White Supremacy, Layla Saad
  • Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
  • So you wanna talk about Race? Ijeoma Oluo

Television miniseries: 

  • When They See Us (2019)
  • The 1619 Project
  • NY Times 1619 Podcast

PBS has several documentaries about sexism, including:

  • Silent Beauty.
  • In this autobiographical documentary, New Orleans journalist Jasmín Mara López shares her experience of healing from childhood sexual abuse.
  • Not Done: Women Remaking America.
  • This documentary explores how a new generation of women have changed norms and are fighting for equality.
  • Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
  • This four-hour documentary follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists as they travel to 10 countries to explore how oppression can become opportunity for women.
  • Sexism and the Culture of Harassment in MI Politics.
  • This series explores sexual harassment and sexism in Michigan politics.

Movies:

  • Transhood (2020)
  • How to Survive a Plague (2012)
  • The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson (2017)
  • Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
  • Hidden Figures (2016)
  • Writing with Fire (2021)
  • 13th (2020)
  • Mrs. America (2020)
  • The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973)
  • The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America (1982)
  • Mississippi Burning (1988)
  • Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 

Youtube:

Ted Talk:

Movies That Tell Our Stories:

(April 2024) Disney+ Launchpad (These are short stories that have lots of intersectionality):

  • Pluralistic short Stories

Immigration (These are immigrant stories):

  • Little America on Apple TV

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Ability

  • Serious
    • I am Sam (2001)
    • CODA (2021)
  • Fun

Asian

  • Serious
    • Joy Luck Club (1993)
  • Fun
    • Crazy Rich Asians (2008)
    • Disney’s Elemental (2023)

Gay/Lesbian

  • Serious
    • Brokeback Mountain (2005)
    • Moonlight (2016)
  • Fun
    • Knock at the Cabin (Horror)
    • The Wedding Banquet (1993)
    • The Birdcage (1996)
    • Too Wong Fu

Latino

  • Serious
    • Cesar Chavez
    • Stand and Deliver
  • Fun
    • In the Heights
    • Flamin’ hot

Trans

  • Serious
    • Boys Don’t Cry (Rape)
    • TransAmerica
    • TransMilitary
    • Transgender Nation
    • A Fantastic Woman
    • Boy Meets Girl
  • Fun
    • Saturday Church 
    • Pose (last two episodes)
    • Paris is Burning 

Black