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COTAD Chapter Capsules
Information, ideas, and inspiration for occupational therapy students and COTAD Chapters
COTAD Capsule Recording March 2023
Responsive & Intentional Community Involvement
Capsule: Elevate your event
Separating Your Chapter from SOTA
Developing Outcome Goals
Capsule: Building Community
Access video content to build community and capacity.
Ideas for Topics to Discuss at
COTAD Chapter Meetings
Waterbear Documentary Site: Click on the button below to access a library of documentary films, many centered on issues of social justice and culture, to watch and debrief about as a small group. There are hundreds of films of varying lengths on that site, and membership is free.
A few suggestions:
Fortitude – about systemic racism as a global (not just U.S.) problem (34 mins.)
Ayman: Forced Migration – about the perspective of a young Syrian refugee (14 mins.)
Together, We Dance – about community, identity, and how dancing can be considered a culture (18 mins.)
Your Street, Our Stage – the story of a former student and instructor for Performing Life International which supports children from under-resourced neighborhoods in Bolivia (10 mins.)
Seahorse – the story of a dad who gave birth (86 mins.)
Ten Documentaries to Watch About Race (instead of asking a person of color to explain things to you)
Books & Other Anti-Racism Resources & Learning Materials
The Warmth of Other Suns
Stony the Road
Stamped from the Beginning (I. Kendi)
The Aryan Myth (L. Poliakov)
The Counter-revolution of 1776
Sister Outsider (A. Lourde)
The Half has Never been Told
Is Everyone Really Equal?
Thicker than Blood (Zuberi)
Fearing the Black Body (S. Strings)
All About Love - by b. hooks
Black Faces, White Spaces
Seeing White
Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People about Race
The New Jim Crow
I'm Judging You
A People's History of the United States
Shannon Sullivan's book "Good White People
The Problem With White Middle Class Anti-Racism" Killers of the Dream (L. Smith)
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Colorblind Racism, Meghan Burke
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations, Joe R. Feagin and Kimberley Ducey
White Fragility, Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
The Fire Next Time (J. Baldwin)
Between the World and Me (T. Coates)
So You Want to Talk about Race (I. Oluo)
Blind Spot (Manaji & Greenwald)
Me and White Supremacy (L. Saad)
White Fragility
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow
An African American and LaintX History of the United States
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (G. Lipsitz)
Whistling Vivaldi
You Can't Touch my Hair
Such a Fun Age
Five Smooth Stones
Philadelphia Fire (J. Wideman)
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Killers of the Dream
How to be Anti-racist (I. Kendi)
Brene Brown podcast with Ibram X. Kendi on this topic: CLICK HERE
1968 in America
The Souls of Black Folk
“The Power of Expectations,” Invisibilia [podcast] - NPR: Can you affect another person’s behavior with your thoughts?
Suggested prompts for use in debriefing:
What were you thinking as you finished watching the film or reading the book?
What part of the story or of the information shared was the most powerful? Why?
What was your overall takeaway?
How does the content of this relate the mission of COTAD and/or to issues of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the OT profession?
How will what you learned impact your practice as a future OT practitioner?