Global Diversity Month Events
All events using the #Diversity tag will appear here throughout the year!
Planning to participate in Diversity Month? Please let us know by filling out the submitting your event to Max Loves Midland community calendar. Be sure to include “Diversity” as one of your event tags, so it shows up in the right place.
If you choose to also create a Facebook event, please feel free to make Midland Area Cultural Awareness Coalition a co-host!
Please note: Global Diversity Month events are independently planned by organizations and individuals in the community.
About Gobal Diversity Month
Previously celebrated as Cultural Awareness Month, Global Diversity Month is observed each year in October as a way to recognize the diversity that surrounds us. As we live in a multicultural society, we come together to acknowledge, celebrate, and accept every individual in our community with their unique differences. Global Diversity Month means to bring us together and embrace and celebrate our unique values, traditions, and cultures. Culture can be explored through traditions, food, music, art, and religion.
Celebrating Global Diversity Month as a community has been a tradition in Midland for many years. Whether it be a cultural show at the Midland Center for the Arts, a community arts scavenger hunt through Public Arts Midland, Creativity Contests, film screenings, food tasting events, book clubs, and more. These events are all independently planned throughout the community to encourage us to learn and grow together every October while we celebrate culture and diversity.
Global Diversity Month Toolkit
Books & Reading Resources
- Read in Color
- Your Guide to Reading the World
- Demystifying Disability – Emily Ladau
- About US – Howard Zinn
- All our Families – Jennifer Natalya Fink
- Ghost Boy – Martin Pistorious and Megan Lloyd Davies
- Care Work- Leah Lakshmi Puepzna-Samarasinha
- Disability Pride: Dispatches from a post ADA world: Ben Mattlin
- Crip Kinship- Shayda Kafai
- Year of the Tiger – Alice Wong
- Sitting Pretty- Rebecca Taussig
- Being Heumann – Judith Heumann
- Hello Yellow Cello (target audience: preK-3rd grade)
- The Heritage Keeper (target audience: middle school, teens)
- I Never Thought of It That Way (target audience: adults)
- Firekeepers Daughter
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Bell Hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
- Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Ibram Kendi, How to be an AntiRacist.
- Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
- Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Websites
Movies
- 13th
- Crip Camp
- Spellers
- Coda
- Wonder
- 20 Diverse Family Movies
Videos + TedTalks
- Mellody Hobson challenges us to be color brave
- Color Blind or Color Brave
- Dreams from endangered cultures
- The importance of using inclusive language
- How to build community as a newcomer
- What it’s really like to have Autism
- How Black Queer Culture Shaped History
- Judy Heumann: Our Fight for Disability Right’s – and why we’re not done yet
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story”
- Jodi-Ann Burey, “The Myth of bringing your full, authentic self to work”
- Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality”
Podcasts
- The Element of Inclusion
- Black Women Working
- The Imposter Syndrome Files
- The Will To Change: Driving Diversity and
- Inclusion
- The Accessible Stall
- The Disability Visibility Podcast
- Barrier Free Futures Podcast
- Included: The Disability Equity Podcast
- Best Diversity and Inclusion Podcasts
