Community Resources
We are a community that is dedicated to creating a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy space. The following are resources that allow us to use our relative privilege to support the larger community through donations, education, and creating space.
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Donate + Support
- Black Girls Code
BGC's mission is to increase the number of women of color in the digital technology space by introducing girls 7-17 to Computer Science. - Care Not Cops Campaign PDX
Grassroots campaign in PDX to challenge policing and shift our reliance and resources to self-determined community care. - Don't Shoot PDX
A social justice non-profit that promotes art, education & civic participation to create social change. - Pool Resources
A network of care that aims to meet the needs of Portland's artistic community. - Portland Equity in Action
Confronting + disrupting white narrative centering and white complacency in Portland, through advertising. - TGIJP
TGIJP is a group of trans, GV, and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons—creating a united family in the struggle for survival.
- Black Girls Code
Educate Yourself
- How To Be An Anti-Racist
by Ibram X. Kendi - Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
by Angela Y Davis - Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla Saad - So You Want to Talk about Race
by Ijeoma Oluo - The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin - Save the Tears: White Woman's Guide
by Tatiana Mac - Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim - White Guyde To The Galaxy
by Tatiana Mac - White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
by Ruby Hamad - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
by Reni Eddo-Lodge - What so many get wrong about racism in the workplace
Racism has been wreaking havoc in our professional lives and we need to address this issue. When companies fail to embrace people of color in the workplace, it is truly a loss for all involved. At F4S, we've gathered various Racism Workplace Statistics which include data from Glassdoor, SHRM, and from different businesses and organizations. We've also created simple steps you can take to fight racism in the workplace.
- How To Be An Anti-Racist
Watch + Listen
- 13th
In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. - Fruitvale Station
The true story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who was murdered by police on New Years Eve in the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland. - Here: A Visual Poem
An experimental visual poem combining video, photography, and animation to examine the lived Black experience and ultimately ask what it means to be 'here'. - I Am Not Your Negro
A propulsive documentary about James Baldwin, his writings and his times. - Seeing White Podcast
Fourteen-part documentary series discussing the notion of "whiteness", what it means and what is whiteness for? - The Black Power Mixtape
Candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on the anti-war and Black Power movements. - The Murder of Fred Hampton
This film depicts the brutal murder of Fred Hampton by the Chicago police and his life as a leader of the Chicago divison of the Black Panthers. - When They See Us
Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story. - Whose Streets?
A film about the Black Lives Matter uprisings in Ferguson and a record of the demonstrations.
- 13th
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