As part of our mission to be an inclusive resource for the worldwide circus and multidisciplinary performing arts industry, CircusTalk aims to be a resource to recognize the diversity of our sector and the need for even greater diversity and inclusion. The topics of inclusion that are of utmost importance to CircusTalk are that of race, gender and disability. We aim to help level the playing field for BIPOC, disabled people, folks on the LGBTQIA and neurodivergent spectrums in the circus sector. While CircusTalk serves the entire circus community, we recognize that certain groups of people have rarely received equal access to circus resources and opportunities. We hope to help remedy that by encouraging inclusion in the circus arts, and by providing a platform for individuals and organizations to promote inclusion and restorative processes.
This page is dedicated to highlighting our news coverage, panel series, and interviews on this topic, while spotlighting issues of inequity, and providing resources and examples for best practices.
If you want to collaborate or add to this resource list, please contact us.
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‘Creating Future Black Spaces’
A 5-Part Online Course for Future Black Leaders in Performing Arts in North America
by John-Paul Zaccarini
This is a bi-weekly course on Saturdays.
9:00 am – 12:00 pm PST
11:00 am – 2:00 pm CST
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Course dates: April 10th, April 24th, May 8th, May 22nd, June 5th, 2021
FutureBlackSpace is a creative space of recovery, discovery and project/artist development, free from the white gaze brought to you by Stockholm University of the Arts and CircusTalk. It is designed for POC who operate within largely white fields/institutions and offers them a chance, through creative writing practices to reflect upon how this affects or troubles their work/study through a combination of seminar, writing exercises, dialogues in group and 1-1, and mapping exercises, somatic/movement practice.
It is meant as a supportive space that offers tools to generate authentic work from the specific experience of POC.
The course is open specifically to BIPOC located in North America, and space is limited to 20 participants.
Registrants are highly encouraged to sign up only if they plan to attend all 5 sessions in order to respect the limited space. If the course fills up, email us at [email protected] to secure a place on the waiting list.
MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION>>>
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Circus Resources
Organizations and Professionals
American Circus Educator’s Race & Circus Resource List
Caravan
The Uncle Junior Project
Diversity Equity & Inclusion Constulant List
Circus For Change Equity Issue Questionnaire
Extraordinary Bodies
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Articles and Publications
Carter, Katrina, “Freaks No More: Rehistoricizing Disabled Circus Arts”
AYCO Youth Advisory Committee, “Gender and Circus Coaching: Basic Guidelines for Circus Coaches and Mentors”
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Performing Arts Resources
Articles, Publications, and Video Series
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General Resources
Books
Oluo, Ijeoma “So You Want to Talk About Race”
Alexander, Michelle, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness”
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo “Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States”
Boza, Tanya Golash, “Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach”
Kivel, Paul, “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice”
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “Between The World And Me”
DiAngelo, Robin, “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism”
Dyson, Michael Eric, “Tears We Cannot Stop”
Eddo-Lodge, Reni, “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race”
Fleming, Crystal “How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide”
Kendi, Ibram X. “How to Be an Antiracist”
Picca, Leslie and Feagin, Joe “Two Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage”
Tochluk, Shelly, ”Witnessing Whiteness”
Treitler, Vilna Bashi, “The Ethnic Project: Transforming Racial Fiction into Ethnic Factions”
Crass, Chris, Towards the “Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter”
McKenzie, Mia (ed.),” The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom”
Stein, Tobie, “Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce”
Wing Sue, Derald, “Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation”
Wing Sue, Derald “Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race”
Kendall, Frances, “Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race”
Lorde, Audre, “A Burst of Light: Essays”
Solnit, Rebecca, “Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities”
Tran, Kim, ”5 Self Care Tips for Activists”
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Articles and Publications
Borges, Anna,“Here’s What To Do If You Can’t Afford Therapy”
DiAngelo, Robin, “11 Ways White America Avoids Taking Responsibility for its Racism“
DiAngelo, Robin, “Nothing to Add, a Challenge to White Silence“
DiAngelo, Robin,“White Fragility and the Question of Trust”
Golden, Gail K., “White Privilege as an Addiction”
Macintosh, Peggy,“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
McKenzie, Mia,“How to Tell the Difference Between Real Solidarity and ‘Ally Theater’”
Metta, John, “I, Racist”
Okun, Tema,“From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: the life-long journey”
Olsson, joan,“Detour-Spotting for White Anti-Racists”
Tatum, Beverly,“Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom”
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Other Resources
Responding to Microaggression Guidelines by Dr. Diana Goodman
Self-care resources and racial healing exercises for Black people by Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow
Circus Specific Resourceby Circus for Change
BIPOC Processing Space: Therapists + Healing Resourcesby ArtEquity
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Organizations and Professionals
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Showing Up for Racial Justice Political Education
WHAT’S UP?! Pittsburgh
White Awake Manual for Group Work
Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance
Catalyst Project
ArtEquity
Diane Goodman
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
Trans Lifeline
