Utah Valley University School of the Arts encourages and fosters a culture of inclusion, cultivating a socially and educationally conscious environment for students, faculty, staff, and the community. We acknowledge the systemic social structures that have perpetuated inequities and therefore we promote meaningful and challenging dialogues, collaborations, and teaching methods as vehicles for social change.
We acknowledge the work ahead of us and the necessity for unremitting meaningful action. To that end, we have created a School of the Arts Inclusion Plan that is centered on anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion through the lenses of curriculum and teaching, event and exhibition programming, and staff and faculty hiring and training. The School of the Arts pledges to listen, acknowledge, and work together to help eliminate the multiple facets of discrimination and will continuously revaluate and revise the Inclusion Plan and our strategies to ensure substantive cultural improvement for stakeholders in the arts, the School, UVU, and the community.
Anti-Racist Pedagogy | Assessment & Inclusive Design | Inclusive, Intercultural, Global Pedagogy
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) by Scarlett Curtis
The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Seighart Mary Ann
The Will to Change by bell hooks
Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton
Making Out by Kathryn Bond Stockton
Education as a Practice of Freedom: Reflections on bell hooks by Akello Specia and Ahmed A. Osman
Sister Outsider by Audel Lorde
Arts of the Possible by Adrienne Rich
Teaching Critical Thinking by bell hooks
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
We do this till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Parable of the Sower by Octavia e butler
Teaching to Trangress by bell hooks
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paul Frier
Teaching Community by bell hooks
Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Equity, the Arts, and Urban Education by Amerlia M. Kraehe, Joni B. Acuff, and Sarah Travis
Holding Change by adrienne maree brown
The Black Butterfly by Lawrence T. Brown
Making and Being by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard
On Designing for Respect by Elizabeth Tunstall
Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace by David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson
Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women by W. Brad Johnson and David G. Smith
Outside the XY: Black and Brown Queer Masculinity edited by Morgan Mann Willis
Queer Dance: Meanings & Makings edited by Clare Croft
Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, and Politics by Ramón Rivera-Servera
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing by Maya Angelou
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color edited by Gloria Anzaldua
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy: Engaging Students in Local Issues Through the Arts by Barbara Beyerbach and Deborah Davis
How Gender Equality Can Save The Planet
A woman’s place is at the polls
Why empowering men at home is good for gender equality
The Ezra Klein Show: Gender is complicated for all of us. Let's talk about it.
