By Alice Y. Hom and Daniel Lau, Northern California Grantmakers
For the last month of a challenging year, we’re highlighting articles that address medical mistrust in the public health sector, bias in data, and inclusive policies. Themes of narrative change and cultural understanding coupled with asking different questions run through some articles as well. We hope you wind down the year with some rest and reflection. See you in 2021!
1. Why does vaccine skepticism exist within the Black community and what actions can we take?
4 Things We Must Do to Fight Medical Mistrust After the COVID-19 Pandemic Ends, The Body Pro
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2. What are the consequences when data lies?
How our data encodes systematic racism, MIT Technology Review
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3. “He asked me to take my mask off ... and decide how much to tip me.”
Survey Finds That Pandemic Has Exacerbated Sexual Harassment of Tipped Workers, Eater
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4. “The more people are exposed to authentic marginalized voices, the less they fear them.”
How One Muslim Woman Is Normalizing the Hijab Through Comics, Shondaland
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5. Should we celebrate Thanksgiving?
How the Mayflower Story Fits Into Native American History, Time
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6. What are better policies to support gender non-conforming employees in the workplace?
Transgender, Gender-Fluid, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Employees Deserve Better Policies, Harvard Business Review
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Bonus: The questions of “what is home?” and “what does it sounds like?” from a November podcast seemed appropriate to end the year.
Four musicians grapple with the same question: What is home?
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