Note: This is by no means an exhaustive list, we are constantly updating. Many of these resources have been shared by the people we work with, and many other resource lists exist online. Feel free to DM us @decolonise_intl if you think there is something that we have missed! Thank you.

• Annaclara Reynolds and Xoai David, ODIS Co-Founders

Articles

Recruitment in International Teaching

• I worked as a recruiter for international schools. The industry is racist. (Medium)
• Back to list International Schools and Education – Working for Equity (Families in Global Transition) article list of further resources by Danau Tanu and Trisha Carter
• Recruiting as an LGBTQ+ International Educator - Emily Meadows (TIE)
• International Schools and Parents, Do I Have to Be a Native English Speaker to Teach Your Child?
• Racism in Recruiting: The Elephant in Our International Education Room
• Black Lives Should Have Always Mattered: An Open Letter to Search Associates
• So you want to recruit for diversity
• Natalie Obiko Pearson: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-03-04/elite-international-school-education-runs-on-systemic-racism?sref=Umh7YXqB
• Exploring the Teacher Salary Gap Due to Ethnicity and Race in International Schools - TIE Article by Dr Liam Hammer
• Conversations with an International Teacher of Colour - Dominique Dalais (Podcast)

        Decolonising International Education

• Decolonizing the IB: A Review of the Literature | by Sara Refai | Medium
• Building Relationships in the Opening Days of School - TIE article by Kim Marshall
• Advocating for children in Educational Spaces - Odunife
• A Guide To Gender Identity Terms | NPR (02 June 2021) 
• Decolonise the Curriculum International Schools | The Teacherist 
• Decolonizing the IB a Review of the Literature 
• 'Students want to confront it': academics on how to decolonise the university - The Guardian, June 2020
• Decolonising the curriculum | Perspectives Blog - CIS Council of International Schools
• IB Speech – text: The Decolonization of our Storytelling | Dr. Olivia U. Rutazibwa 
• Taking curriculum seriously 
• Critical Service Learning - a resource list by Tiwana Meritt & Constance Collins
• Pathways to global citizenship: a critical analysis of the International Baccalaureate’s Diploma Programme in the Asia Pacific region (paid research article by Rachel Engel on Taylor and Francis Online)
• Glocal Network Shifts: Exploring Language Policies and Practices in International Schools - Global Education Review article by Esther Bettney and Jon Nordmeyer (Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, USA)

LGBTQ+

• A Guide To Gender Identity Terms | NPR (02 June 2021) 
• I misgendered someone: What do I do next? By Justin Garcia
• How International Schools can Safeguard LGBTQ+ Students and Faculty | Council of International Schools (CoIS) article by Sadie Hollins
• Recruiting as an LGBTQ+ International Educator - Emily Meadows (TIE)
• International School of Prague (ISP)

• ISP Spectrum Facebook: ‘A club at the International School of Prague that supports all Gender and Sexual identifications, and is open to discussion throughout the community.’
• How a trip to ISP could shape the future for AISB’s LGBTQ+ community - The Bite (student newspaper in American Intl Schl Bucharest, Romania)  
• International school in Prague introduces gender-neutral toilets - Kafkadesk.org

• The Bite (student newspaper in American Intl Schl Bucharest, Romania):

• Romania’s LGBTQ+ Community: Why AISB Needs to Lead the Charge on Acceptance -  
• Anonymous Stories from AISB’s LGBTQ+ Community
• AISB Starts its First-Ever LGBTQ+ Group
• “Art and imagination made me free”: An Ally Week Q&A with young artist Magda Queta on the role of art in promoting LGBTQ+ rights

• Ally Week at Asociación Escuelas Lincoln (American International School in Buenos Aires) - TIE article By Josefino Rivera
• The Importance of a School's Mission (Rainbow Club at Academia Cotopaxi American International School in Quito, Ecuador) - Tie Article by Frédéric Bordaguibel-Labayle
• You Belong Here - TIE article by Emily Meadows with free multilingual LGBT+ safety posters
• GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, US-based) Programs: Solidarity Week, Day of Silence, No Name-Calling Week, Professional Development Resources, Student Resources, School Calendar

Books         

• The 2000s made me Gay by Grace Perry

Podcasts

• The Coming out Monologues with Kristina Pennell-Götze (featuring many panelists from our LGBT+ Webinar, Justin Garcia and Kanako Suwa)

International community

• An Open Letter to the International School Community: Our Role in the Black Lives Matter Movement… By Rachel Engel
• International education perpetuates structural racism and anti-racism is the solution
• https://thebite.aisb.ro/index.php/black-lives-matter-an-open-letter-to-the-aisb-community
• Decolonise IB: How international school alumni are mobilising to diversify the expat curriculum - Medium article by ODIS co-founder Xoai David
• A Letter to Asians
• Decolonization is not a metaphor
• Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
• What is settler colonialism?
• A Guide to Talking about Anti-Blackness in the Asian Community
• Growing up in Transit
• Realising the True Potential of International Schools
• Racism in International Schools: Let's Start Educating Parents
• Do International Schools Promote Colonial Racism? | International Schools Review
• What is international education: Perspective from the global south
• The fluid identity of a cultural-other | IB Community Blog
• Developing open-mindedness through TOK with Kymberley Chu | IB Community Blog
• Rewrite the English Department Lessons in Radical Decolonisation | Aljazeerah by Amandla Thomas Johnson
• (Good for CAS): Equity in Service-Learning:Self-Assessment Tools for Community Engagement resource shared by Tiwana Meritt

Beyond 2020: Improving the values and actions of international education worldwide by Chris Durbin | Council of International Schools (19 Jan 2021)

General

• Anti-Racist Resource list by APPEAR (Association de Parents pour la Promotion d`une Éducation Anti-Raciste - International School Geneva)
• The White-Savior Industrial Complex
• What Is White Privilege, Really?
• 6 ways to be antiracist, because being 'not racist' isn't enough
• WHITE FEMINISM
• How Coronavirus Will Disrupt Future Colleges & Universities
• Academics: it's time to get behind decolonising the curriculum
• The White Feminist Savior Complex
• How Organizations Can Support the Mental Health of Black Employees
• Decolonize ALL The Things – The UNsettling reflections of a Decolonial Scientist
• Unfinished histories: Imagining a Museum of British Colonialism

• How to Stop the Racist in You by Jeremy Adam Smith, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

• 'How George Floyd's death changed my Chinese students' by By Megha Mohan | BBC News (June 29, 2020)

• The False Promise of Anti-Racism Books by Saida Grundy | The Atlantic (July 21st 2020)
• 'Students want to confront it': academics on how to decolonise the university by Sadhvi Dar, Manali Desai and Clive Nwonka | The Guardian (June 17 2020)
• 6 Young People Reflect On What A Black University In The UK Might Look Like by Salma Haidrani | Vogue UK (August 2nd 2020)
• 'White guilt on its own won't fix racism': decolonising Britain's schools by Lola Okolosie | The Guardian (June 10 2020)
• The Anti-racist Revelations of Ibram X. Kendiby Ibram X. Kendi | The Washington Post (14 October 2019)
• 'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu | The Guardian (14 January 2021)
• Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So: Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic. | By Norimitsu Onishi - NY Times (February 2021)
• What is intersectionality? All of who I am by Roberta K Timothy | The Conversation (7 March 2019)
• Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later

        Climate Justice:

• I'm a Black Climate Scientist and Racism Derails our Efforts to Save the Planet  by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | The Washington Post (June 03, 2020)
• shado mag Issue 03: Climate Justice
• The Fight for Shell's accountability in the Niger delta | Samia Dumbaya | Shado Mag
• Decolonising Earth Day Lesson Plans by the fabulous Clara

For Educators:

• Counter-Narratives resource kit by Kwame Sarfo-Mensah from Identity Talk Consulting and ISS
• How to Be an Anti-racist Teacher

• The International Educator - articles on diversity, equity, and inclusion
• How to Be an Antiracist Educator
• What White Colleagues Need to Understand
• How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators?
• Recovering and Teaching Local History
• Speak Up Against Hateful Rhetoric
• Student intervention for anti-racist education
• Spotlight on Anti-Black Racism
• Resources-to-support-childrens-emotional-well-being-amid-anti-black-racism-racial-violence-and-trauma
• Your Pedagogy Might be More Aligned with Colonialism than You Realize

        Things you didn’t learn:

• Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire | Marc Parry
• Read all about it – the truth about British colonialism | Matilda Marcus
• Being Black in Britain: The Civil Rights Movement They Never Taught You In School
• The real meaning of Rhodes Must Fall | Amit Chaudhuri (The Guardian, 2016)
• The Rohingya Crisis
• HISTORY CONFRONTED | CHANGING THE BIPOC NARRATIVE TO ONE OF DIGNITY, POWER, AND ACHIEVEMENT
• How Britain stole $45 trillion from India | Colonialism
• What to Know About the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre
• Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘It was a myth that immigrants didn’t want to fit into British society. We weren’t allowed’
• Britain should stop trying to pretend that its empire was benevolent
• Thanksgiving: The annual genocide whitewash | Indigenous Rights News
• Africa has forgotten the women leaders of its independence struggle

Petitions

• Petition · Explicit inclusion of anti-racism in international accreditation standards
• Petition · Cultivate ACTIVE ANTI-RACISM in International Schools
• Petition · Decolonising the International Baccalaureate
• Petition · Justice for May 2020 IB Graduates - Build a Better Future! #IBSCANDAL
• Petition · Change AERO social studies standards to include study of racism, injustice and oppression
• Petition · Kampala International School Uganda We have to reap justice for all the Black students, teachers, and workers!
• Petition · The Removal of Todd Puckett (Georgraphy Teacher) from ASIJo'burg

Surveys and studies to participate in:

• ISC research on Student Voice in international schools

Courses and Workshops

• FREE Teaching Black British History - Teacher Training and CPD Course
• Odunife: Shaping new narratives about African history and language

Culturally responsive and abolitionist learning

-  2020 Curriculum Resource Guide (google drive)

-  CRITICAL PRACTICES

- Building Anti-Racist White Educators

• GUIDANCE FOR INITIAL TEACHER TRAINERS | Show Racism the Red Card
• The Black Curriculum
• Glossary | Racial Equity Tools
• Decolonizing the Classroom: Teaching With Indigenous Comics
• https://padlet.com/lbenson3/antiracist
• The Black Education Project
• Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding by Debra Rader
• Tamisha Williams’ Summer Workbook for Educators
• What White Children Need to Know About Race  – by Ali Michael and Eleonora Bartoli (NAIS)
• Onward by Elena Aguilar
• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
• Facing History Website
• Teaching for Black Lives: A Handbook to Fight America's Ferocious Racism in (Virtual or Face-to-Face) Classrooms  – The Washington Post
• A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources  – Katie Couric on Medium
• Why the Language We Use About Learning Determines Inclusivity – KQED
• Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy  – Truthout
• A Better Way to Teach the Civil Rights Movement  – Edutopia
• What Is Social Justice Education Anyway?  – Education Week
• 8 Ways Teachers Can Address White Supremacy in the Classroom  – Common Sense Education
• 6 Things White Kids Say About Race That Parents Should Call Out Now  – Huffington Post
• Race & Ethnicity Resources  – Learning for Justice (Formerly Teaching Tolerance)
• Anti-Racist Resources from Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley 
• Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
• How to introduce anti-racist teaching | Goals and Supporting your students
• Sankara Media: Sankara Media is a non-profit news organization reporting about neocolonial capitalism and proposing abolitionist futures of equality, solidarity, and love. Here are their Post bibliographies

Watch

Full conference recordings by AIELOC (Association of International Educators and Leaders of Colour) on Youtube

Watch our Instagram Live IGTVs

Short(ish) Talks

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Deepen Your Understanding of Decolonisation | Samantha Moyo | TEDxBrighton
• TEDxFlanders - Olivia U. Rutazibwa - Decoloniser
• Hauani-Kay Trask Delivers Powerful Speech at the University of Hawaii (21:43)
• How Can I Have a Positive Racial Identity? I'm White! | Ali Michael | TEDxCheltenham
• We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | TEDxEuston
• The Urgency of Intersectionality | Kimberle Crenshaw | TEDx
• TED talks: The Danger of the Single Story (Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche)
• TRIPLE CRIPPLES | TEDxSussexUni - Empowerment as a Disabled, Black Woman
• 3 ways to speak English | Jamila Lyiscott
• Pedagogy of the Decolonizing | Quetzala Carson | TEDxUAlberta
• Whitewashing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• Race in Britain | Youtube channel
• Panel on Racism in International Schools | TCKidNow
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
• A conversation on anti-racism and international education CIS Exec Director - Jane Larsson and Nunana Nyomi Assoc. Director of HE Services
• How students of color confront impostor syndrome | Dena Simmons
• Colour of Fear - 1994 
• Racism, Imperialism and Decolonization in International Relations | LSE Online Event
• TED-Ed: The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary (Thomas Sankara) - Lisa Janae Bacon (5 mins)
• Developing Africa, Not Westernizing It | Laiqa Walli || TEDxYouth @AKAMombasa
• Racism, Imperialism and Decolonization in International Relations | LSE Online Event
• Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
• The Instagram Infographic Industrial Complex (performative activism and aesthetics on social media | Amanda Maryanna
• Pocahontas Was a Mistake, and Here’s Why | Lindsay Ellis (informal video essay about Disney’s Misrepresentation and Appropriation of Indigenous people - Moana, Lilo and Stitch, Brother Bear, Emperor’s New Groove)

TV Shows

• Pose
• Insecure
• Atlanta
• She’s Gotta Have it
• All American
• Black Lightning
• The Last O.G.
• Girlfriends
• Empire
• Dear White People
• Black-ish
• Grown-ish
• The Chi
• Snowfall
• White Teeth
• Queen Sugar (Ava DuVernay)
• Black Earth Rising
• I May Destroy You (Michaela Coel)
• Chewing Gum (Michaela Coel)
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay)
• Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
• dSmall Axe (Steve McQueen)

Films/Documentaries

• The 13th (Youtube/Netflix)
• Le Silence du Fleuve (French) - testimonies of the Paris Massacre of Algerian protestors by police on October 17, 1961

• The BlackKklansman (Spike Lee)
• Red, White, and Blue (Steve McQueen)
• Radical Brownies - (Guardian) - mini documentary
• Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
• Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
• Queen and Slim
• Good Burger (1997)
• Jump In! (2007)
• Poetic Justice (1993)
• Set it Off (1996)
• Roll Bounce (2005)
• The Photograph
• Hidden Figures
• Little (2019)
• Last Holiday (2006)

Podcasts

• Bite the Hand that Feeds You (Isabella Kajiwara)
• Reset Revolution
• Code Switch Code Switch
• Show About Race
• Intersectionality Matters
• Dismantling racism in education 
• The Sea Change Podcast: E6 - The Black TCK experience and racism in International Schools (Kyra Kellawan)
• Floodlines The story of an unnatural disaster (Hurricane Katrina) | The Atlantic
• The Yikes Podcast (Mikaela Loach & Jo Becker)
• Resist and Renew
• The Good Ancestor Podcast (Layla F. Saad)
• Drilled Podcast
• I said What I said
• The Liturgists
• EXIT RACISM: Das horbuch - Tupoka Ogette
• Alice Hasters
• THE Podcast: Decolonising the curriculum - Times Higher Education | Podcast 

Books

Novels

• The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
• The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
• Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche)
• Half a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche)
• The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Hanif Abdurraqib)
• A Woman is No Man (Etaf Rum)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
• Letter to My Daughter (Maya Angelou)
• The January Children (Safia Elhillo)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
• The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
• Love in Colour (Bolu Babalola)
• Cinderella is Dead (Kalynn Bayron)
• Girl, Woman, Other (Bernadine Evaristo)
• Blonde Roots (Bernadine Evaristo)
• An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)
• Queenie (Candice Carty-Williams)
• The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
• Celestial Bodies (Jokha Alharthi)
• Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi)
• Beloved (Toni Morrison)

Non-Fiction

• Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad (recommended by Kwame Sarfo-Mensah of Identity Talk Consulting)
• Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice by Em Daniels
• Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework by SJ Miller
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker
• Me & White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
• Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen (Amrou Al-Kadhi)
• Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist mandate for Radical Movements (Charlene A. Carruthers)
• Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)
• Don’t Touch my hair (Emma Dabiri)
• To Exist is to Resist Black Feminism in Europe (Ed Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobrande)
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Cathy Park Hong)
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Angela Y. Davis)
• Your Silence will not protect you (Audre Lorde)
• James Baldwin
• The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
• Why I am no longer talking to white people about race (Renni Eddo-Lodge)
• How to be an Anti Racist (Ibram X Kendi)
• Brit(ish) (Afua Hirsch)
• Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire (Akala)
• Who do you serve, who do you protect
• The Return of Race Science (Angela Saini)
• White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society by Kalwant Bhopal
• Its Not About the Burqa (Ed. Mariam Khan)
• Ain’t I a Woman (Bell Hooks)
• Feminism Interrupted (Lola Olufemi)
• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America (Ed. Nikesh Shulka)
• Fearing the Black Body the racial origins of Fatphobia (Sabrina Strings)
• What we’re told not to talk about  but we are going to anyway (Nimiko Ali)
• Hood Feminism (Mikki Kendall)
• Think Like A White Man - Conquering the World..While Black (Nels Abbey)
• We Should All be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie)
• Fatal invention (Dorothy E. Roberts)
• The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What it Means to be Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic in Britain Today (Ed. Nikesh Shukla)
• Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
• The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s house (Audre Lorde)
• The Autobiography of Malcom X
• Between the World and me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• Africa’s Tarnished Name Chinua Achebe)
• On Race, Gender, and Class (Angela Davis)
• So You Want to Talk about Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
• Blindspot (Mahzarin R. Banaji)
• The Privileged Poor: How elite colleges are failing disadvantaged students (Anthony Abraham Jack)
• Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School (Danau Tanu)
• TCKs and the social implications of race by Tanya Crossman author of Misunderstood TCK

• Moving the Centre - The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms (Ngugi Wa Thiong’o)

• KS2 - Journeys: the Story of Migration to Britain - Level 7: Saturn/Blue-Red band by Dan Lyndon-Cohen (9781510452381)
• Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Fatma Aydemir & Hengameh Yaghoobifarah)

Google Drive Resource Banks

• Critical Race Theory 
• Books by Black Activists
• Stop Asking Black People to Teach You
• Center for Racial Justice in Education: BLACK HISTORY MONTH RESOURCE GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS AND FAMILIES

Data

• International School Database - ISC research
• Legacies of British Slave-ownership project

21 century international mindedness: An exploratory study of its conceptualisation and assessment

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Abolitionist Teaching Network: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook 
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• United We Dream: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• It’s A Continent (Making Africa’s History Accessible to All)