Tools
Creating Inclusive Spaces: Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
Providing designated gender neutral bathrooms allows everyone to use the facilities in peace and safety. This is tool to transform existing gender-specific bathrooms to gender-neutral.
Brief History of Abortion Related Initiatives and Referenda
Since the early 1970’s there have been more than 35 statewide measures on ballots dealing in some way with abortion. The initiative and referendum process have been used by both advocates for safe and legal abortion (pro-choice advocates) and opponents of abortion (anti-choice advocates).
2011 Oregon Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity
A multi-issue and multiracial assessment of the 2011 legislative session which evaluates lawmakers’ commitment to advancing opportunity and closing disparities affecting Oregonians, particularly Oregonians of Color.
Shared Oppressions
This tool helps organizations to examine and connect LGBTQ issues to the priorities they are already focused on.
Assessing Our Organizations
This assessment tool is useful in identifying the gaps and opportunities to strengthening an organization’s commitment to LGBTQ equality.
Unions and the Progressive Movement: More Than Just Workers' Rights
A curriculum and discussion guide created to start conversations - about how c(3) organizations and unions can build meaningful relationships, about the values both movements share, and about how we can work together.
Growing from Groundwork: Stories & Tools from the Reproductive Justice Movement
A resource to help organizations to start conversations that would identify needs related to reproductive justice.
Gender Dominos
Language can be used to hurt and harm, as well as to convey solidarity. A part of being a good ally is in knowing and using terms that the LGBTQ communities themselves are using. At the Center we’ve developed an exercise to help us use a shared language that is respectful to the LGBTQ community.
Capitol Gains: Traditional vs. Movement-Building Approaches to Legislative Advocacy
Western States Center believes a movement-building approach – values-driven and led by the community who is affected by the issues – can transform legislative organizing into an experience that builds leadership, community, and grassroots power.
Reproductive Justice 101: A Select History
This Reproductive Justice 101 interactive timeline is a great tool for starting dialogues within organizations about the issue.
Reproductive Justice 101 Trainer Notes
Trainer notes for presenting the Reproductive Justice 101 interactive timeline.
Immigrant Rights, Racial Justice and LGBT Equality Timeline
Our Immigrant Rights, Racial Justice and LGBT Equality Timeline is a helpful exercise to create common ground among marginalized communities.
Assessing Our Organizations-LGBTQ
This sampling of questions is designed to help you examine and change the ways your organization currently deals with LGBTQ equality, a well as some places to start looking within the organization for some first steps.
Building Grassroots Power - Module One
BGP is designed to support community-based groups to build grassroots power through the political electoral system.
Building Grassroots Power - Intro
BGP is designed to support community-based groups to build grassroots power through the political electoral system.
Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book for Social Change Groups
This resource book, published in 2003, is a compilation of materials designed to supplement a Dismantling Racism workshop.
Sharing the Lessons Learned: Reflections on Six Years of Anti-Racism Work
Our Dismantling Racism Project was shaped by the Center’s analysis of the ways race and racism were specifically playing out in our region. It has now been six years since the launch of the DR Project. Through this work we have seen inspiring successes and challenging pitfalls. The Project has taken many forms and, like Western States Center as an organization, our DR work has evolved over that period. In 2004 we engaged in an evaluative process designed to cull the lessons we have learned and determine the Center’s on-going priorities and role in moving a racial justice agenda in the West. Based on this assessment, this document shares our thoughts on the value and utility of anti-racist organizational work and education as well as the critical questions our work has raised.
