The Advocates and Allies for Equity are a community of faculty, graduate students, and staff who strive to reduce inequity and bias at Indiana University Bloomington, with a focus on gender and its intersection with other minoritized identities. We also seek to reduce the burden of this work on our minoritized colleagues, and to that end, the leadership team is largely composed of men who acknowledge their privilege and use it to affect change.
Each week during the fall and spring semesters, we distribute tips & resources to help you become a better ally for gender equity.
Tuesday Allies’ Coffee Hour at the Observatory
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The Advocates & Allies for Equity group has developed numerous workshops to encourage stronger allyship at IUB and beyond. These sessions have been presented to the broad IU community as well as presented (by request) to departments and offices.
We offer in-person workshops as well as asynchronous workshop modules. If you’d like to request a presentation for your office or department, email aaequity@iu.edu.
Advocates & Allies for Equity believes that change is affected by raising awareness of inequity and bias at IUB through education and recruitment of a diverse community of allies.
The Ally Pledge is designed to support you in reflecting on and deepening your understanding of equity issues on campus. It encourages you to take concrete actions as an ally for equity and to promote more action-based allyship on campus.
This pledge is open only at the beginning of the semester. Those who take the pledge will be listed on the “See our local allies” page for the respective academic year. At the end of each semester, ally pledgers will be invited to a roundtable meeting which aims to foster cross-campus conversation and collective learning of allyship.
Become an ally for equity at IUB by taking this action pledge. Learn about its purpose and how it works.
We offer a unit/department-based semi-structured workshop. This program aims to offer a transformational learning environment for men, encouraging them to partake in creating a more equitable institutional climate that supports the advancement of women faculty and staff and other underrepresented groups on campus. The program offers a cross-campus network of male Allies and enable them to foster an institutional culture for gender equity. The facilitation is led by male advocates. We accept facilitation requests in the Fall and deliver the facilitation in the Spring semester.
Request A&A Facilitation for your unit/department! For more information and facilitation request, please contact us at aaequity@iu.edu
