Most of the books are available on open-source sites for free. There might be more resources in the community around other parts of the world, so if you don’t see it here, please email me and I’ll add it to the list. monti@designandracialequity.com

Books and Literature

By: Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, Illustrations By: Ane Agi

Decolonizing Design, A Cultural Justice Guidebook

By: Sasha Costanza-Chock

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

A cornerstone of the design justice movement. Explores how design can challenge structural inequities across race, gender, and disability.

By: Anthony Dunne + Fiona Raby

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

Being able to move design from general to explore all the intersections and implications of new developments. That includes social dreaming and learning to create moments that unpack new connections and equity.

By: Caroline Criado Pérez

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Learn more about how patriarchal data is designed to amplify the voices of those with access to privilege based on gender. Data in the modern world, from healthcare to education and public policy, is filled with discrimination and bias. Leaving the future of systems and people in marginalized spaces in harm.

Anne H. Berry (Managing Editor), Kelly Walters (Creative Director), Jennifer Rittner (Development Editor), Lesley-Ann Noel, Penina Laker, Kareem Collie

The Black Experience in Design: Identity Expression + Reflection

A collective effort to capture the current moment of cultural reflection, as well as to consider the futures we are creating together.

By: Omari Souza

Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities

A historical and philosophical exploration of the impact of design on underserved communities, examining the field’s shortcomings as well as its potential to create positive change.

By: Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Community storytelling from lived experiences is missing from data collection, leadership, and policy initiatives. This book explores moments in disability culture in the now and future.

By: adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Systems change requires us to explore creative ways to design our own strategy for living. From policy change to environmental climate injustices. We are experiencing changes that shouldn’t hold us back, but propel us forward. Learning to develop not only a visual mindset, but an internal spiritual one that transforms us all.

By: Creative Reaction Lab

Field Guide: Equity Centered Community Design

This booklet is a social innovation tool for those in movement building spaces. Guiding you with tools to focus on human-centered design and communications that focuses on policy changes.

There might be more resources in the community around other parts of the world, so if you don’t see it here, please email me and I’ll add it to the list. monti@designandracialequity.com

Videos and Visuals

Design Justice 101 Talk with Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock

Using a system-science approach in order to understand the complex mechanisms that drive the health disparities of stigmatized populations, in particular, gender and sexual minorities.

The Black Experience in Design

Using a system-science approach in order to understand the complex mechanisms that drive the health disparities of stigmatized populations, in particular, gender and sexual minorities.

Learning and Unlearning: Decolonizing Design

Can it even be done? If so how do we do it? I answer these questions and more in my series on ethical design.

Centering Lived Experience Experts as Equity Designers, Creative Reaction Labs

Learn how this type of civic engagement and the redesigning for justice movement can move us to reshape the narrative -- creating a just world through authentic collaboration and community-centered approaches in the design process.

Decolonizing Design | Dr. Dori Tunstall in conversation with George McCalman

Tunstall's work serves as an inspiration for MoAD's current exhibition, Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy, curated by Key Jo Lee. Decolonizing Design is a guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.

Queering Design: Moving Towards Emergent Practices

A series of queer provocations to shift away from human-centered design practices towards frameworks rooted in mutuality.

Can Design Dismantle Racism? Antoinette Carol

Take a deeper look at how design can be used to view the world and understand how systemic racism is a major component of it.

Tatiana Mac // How Privilege Defines Performance

The Design + Diversity conference explores proactive ways to make the design industry more diverse. This is the only conference that focuses on diversity issues in the design field. This event provides a platform for constructive conversation among those who design, innovate, and lead. We welcome the perspective of diversity and inclusion professionals, designers, and any active enthusiasts.

There might be more resources in the community around other parts of the world, so if you don’t see it here, please email me and I’ll add it to the list. monti@designandracialequity.com

Articles

Decolonial Design Theory By: Sustainability Directory | March 22nd, 2025

Designing (Ourselves) for Racial Justice By: Stanford Dschool | Jess Brown, Louie Mantoya, and sam seidel