About

The Biology Department Antiracist Reading Group is open to all department members and is focused on discussing  racism, white supremacy, and liberatory frameworks both in and out of academia. The group meets for discussion biweekly on Wednesdays at 12:00p EST via Zoom, with links distributed by department-wide email.

Reading List:

Date	Author	Title
Spring 2022	Maya Angelou	The Heart of a Woman
Fall 2021	Michelle Alexander	The New Jim Crow
Summer 2021	Audre Lorde	Sister Outsider
Spring 2021	Ijeoma Oluo	So You Want to Talk About Race
Summer/Fall 2020	Ibram X. Kendi	How to be an Antiracist

 

The books we have read have been suggested by facilitators or participants of the group and voted upon via poll. If you would like to suggest a book to read, please contact the group facilitators.

Facilitation

Facilitators

Joe Ryan (joseph.ryan@whitney.ufl.edu)
Kasey Pham (kasey.pham@ufl.edu)

(As of Fall 2021)

Ground Rules

The reading group currently uses the facilitation tenets from the AORTA Collective, which you can read here: (link). We follow the UF Student Code of Conduct; anyone who behaves in a way which violates the code during discussion will be removed at discretion of the facilitators.

We also adhere to the following tenets:

• Group members are coming into discussion from different life experiences, places in their critical identity development, and background knowledge. The discussion is a space for everyone to learn and grow.
• It is important to take what we have learned from discussion outside the group, but please keep group members anonymous when discussing takeaways outside of our discussions.

You can view notes on group goals and discussion ground rules brainstormed during the group’s initial meetings here: (link).