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      Here are some important resources for creating a more ethical culture for Contact Improvisation as well as some articles on sociocultural issues that affect Contact Improvisation.


       

      Contact Improvisation & Dance
      • Brooks Yardley: Respecing Boundaries : Coexisting Genders, Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv
      • Kathleen Rea: The Newcomer Experience in Contact Dance Improvisation
      • Kathleen Rea: “That lady”: The story of what happened when a woman put up a boundary in the contact improv world
      • Kathleen Rea: Contact Improvisation Jam Boundary Guidelines
      • Megan Emerson: The Stages of Consent Culture for Dance Communities
      • Michele Beauliex: How the First Rule Brought #MeToo to Contact Improvisation
      • Sarah Gottlieb: Myths to Break Down: Moving Toward Ethical Communication and Ethical Sexuality in CI
      • Sarah Gottlieb: A response to a reader regarding Myths to Break Down
      • Sarah Gottlieb: Myth #4: It’s okay to heal me with contact improv
      • West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam: 2017 Inclusivity Statement
      • West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam: Contact Improvisers Consider #metoo – Dancers’ Group
      • West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam: Jam Guidelines & Protocol for Boundary Violations

       

      Ability
      • Mia Mingus – Moving Toward the Ugly : A Politic Beyond Desirability | Leaving Evidence
      • Eli Clare – Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies, Disability and Queerness

       

      Appropriation
      • Jarune Uwujaren – The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation

       

      Class
      • Poor People with Nice Things
      • Carmen Rios – Seven everyday things poor people worry about that rich people never do | openDemocracy

       

      LGBTQIA*
      • Evin Taylor – Cisgender Privilege, On the Privileges of Performing Normative Gender
      • CO Anti-Violence Program – Privileges Held by Straight People
      • CO Anti-Violence Program – Privileges Held by Cisgender People

       

      Race
      • Robin DiAngelo – White Fragility
      • Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
      • Maria P P Root – A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People
      • Shin Yin Khor – What Would Yellow Ranger Do?
      • Jennifer Loubriel – 4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
      • John Dovidio & Samuel Gaertner – Color Blind or Just Plain Blind? The Pernicious Nature of Contemporary Racism


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