Digital Library of Insightful Resources

Learning Impact: This book illuminates how slavery is the foundation of the majority of current systems within the United States.

Learning Impact: History of the Attica uprising outside of Buffalo in 1971. This was one additional transformative moment in my adult life when I (again) realized how little I know about the impacts of racism all around me.

Learning Impact: Memoir centered on the tragic deaths of five Black young men in the author’s life, between 2000 and 2004.

Learning Impact: Made me understand what we are doing wrong.

Learning Impact: Helps me understand the experiences of the author.

Learning Impact: It is informative about the racial biases ingrained in beauty standards.

Learning Impact: How much of medicine and medical knowledge was/is founded on racism. 

Learning Impact: Exposes our biases like no other book!

Learning Impact: An easy guide on how to have uncomfortable conversations.

Learning Impact: African magic that allows them to fly away.

Learning Impact: Four African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman.

Learning Impact: This helped me to understand the discrimination dynamics that African Americans and other Black people face in their daily lives.

Learning Impact: It helped me believe that there is a God and as long as I believe in him, I can receive blessings like living past the age of 80.

Learning Impact: A timely reminder of what African American doctors go through while practicing — a lot to learn from this movie.

Learning Impact: Family dynamics in Brooklun 1973. This is a semi-autobiographic film by Spike Lee.

Learning Impact: The 1619 Project is a book and now a TV series that highlights all the different ways that Black people have shaped American history and culture. It provides Black history that has often been erased from the history that we learn in school.

Learning Impact: A conversation about inclusive cultures and everything in the diversity, equity and inclusion space.

Learning Impact: Diverse opinions to embrace black culture

Learning Impact: Relatable music due to his honest outlook on life and the expression of frustration and dissatisfaction that is felt due to the lack of progress.

Learning Impact: Goes beyond duty of physicians to demonstrate the need for comprehensive reproductive care.

Learning Impact: A fantastic and frustrating book about constant misdiagnosis and misrepresentation in women’s health since the beginning of its time. This book really opened my eyes to how systemic the problems within women’s health are!

Learning Impact: I had this book as required reading for my undergraduate course on medical anthropology and it tells the story of the first Navajo woman surgeon. I recommend it to everyone, but especially women going into health care as it demonstrates Dr. Alvord’s struggles of entering a male-dominated field. It teaches about combining western medicine with the traditional healing methods of Native American culture.

Learning Impact: Women's bodies have been used as war weapons throughout war histories, but in many cases, we have normalized it and many perpetrators are never brought to justice. The victims are blamed for the crimes done to them and society expects them to move on. As Buffalo has resettled many refugees in past years, it is important to learn which open wounds many are carrying.

Learning Impact: An incredible book and resource that documents the erasure and exclusion of women from data collection, product and service design, so much more.

Learning Impact: Teach us about the importance of giving space to intersectionality and amplify the voices of indigenous woman that, in my opinion, have a lot of wisdom to share with the world.

Learning Impact: It made me believe that we can actually change the world as we know it.

Learning Impact: Is incredibly insightful, learning about this powerful leader is just impressive.

Learning Impact: Emily’s approach to explaining gender as it relates to anatomy has helped me give language to what I know to be true about bodies, gender identity and sexuality.

Learning Impact: Don’t be afraid to fail.

Learning Impact: This is for kids and young teens to inspire young women to be fearless and brave. 

Learning Impact: Women scientists describe their experience with harassment, discrimination and mistreatment at their workplaces and the impact on their careers.

Learning Impact: Women + Aging + Dignity + Sex = great commentary on the current issues & culture.

Learning Impact: powerful story of the mathematician women's that with their hard work and brilliance allowed americans to get to the moon.

Learning Impact: extraordinary journalism, training a lens on forgotten but heroic women of science.

Learning Impact: Women scientists describe their experience with harassment, discrimination and mistreatment at their workplaces and the impact on their careers.

Learning Impact:  how do we make sure we do not perpetuate the very harmful structures and norms we are working to transform.

Learning Impact: Trace the story from the beginning of European colonization to the 2016 protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

Learning Impact: Challenge myths and stereotypes about Indigenous peoples in the United States.

Learning Impact: Read wide-ranging social, political and cultural commentary to reflect on the past and present of Indigenous peoples in the United States.

Learning Impact: Incarcerated since 1977, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier shares his life story alongside his philosophical views on prison and how it has affected him.

Learning Impact: Explore a wide range of experiences among Indigenous peoples living in the United States in this PEN/Hemingway Award–winning novel.

Learning Impact: A mosaical blend of narrative, poetry, photography and anthropological recordings serves as both a memoir and a history of the Indigenous people who live within the current boundaries of California.

Learning Impact: An anthropologist's chronicle of the lives of Indigenous peoples in the United States from the Wounded Knee Massacre, which saw nearly 300 Lakota people killed by the U.S. Cavalry, to the present day.

Learning Impact: Based on the author’s own experiences at the Jemez Pueblo, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel depicts a young man returning from World War II caught between two worlds.

Learning Impact: A Cherokee activist, who in 1985 became the first woman elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, tells her life story about challenges she faced leading her people toward a new century.