Anti-Racism Presentation Design - NorQuest College

Making presentations through an anti-racism and anti-oppressive lens requires advanced planning and preparation. In considering how to be sensitive to race-related issues, this section includes some suggestions on how to promote inclusive messaging through presentation design.

Goals

Instructors will understand best practices for creating anti-racist, anti oppressive presentations using appropriate language, names, images, and resources.

How-to-guide

Reflection

To what extent does the messaging in your presentation combat injustice, promote inclusion and educate both you and others about the perils of prejudice and discrimination?

Before designing and delivering your presentations to learners, review and follow these tips:

Ensure that your images do not rely on stereotypes by showing one image for diversity, one race over another, or skewing the way our learners will understand or categorize people Use human illustrations representing people of different races, including Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Consider how people are represented in your images or language. Consider who is represented and who is missing. Ensure that your learners are well represented in the images they see displayed Use gender neutral pronouns in some cases, ex. “they” or “their” Check whether the content makes assumptions from a dominant or single point of view or also includes perspectives from racialized voices Avoid the use of words that may be potentially exclusive or hurtful to people Remember that your interests, stories, and pop culture references are not universal (do not assume that every student relates to them). Avoid using generalizing statements like “we” or “Indigenous People” to inaccurately make attributions or references to a group or population Provide anti-racist and anti-oppressive resources to learners so that they can expand their own worldview

Resources

Tools

NorQuest LibGuide: APA 7th Edition includes Inclusive and Bias Free Language Standards. This resource also provides links to information on how to cite and reference Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and how to share pronouns.

Unsplash offers free images, including of folks from diverse backgrounds.

The BIPOC Community PowerPoint Template is a thematic template created using human illustrations.

Videos

Inclusive Language Tutorial from NorQuest Business Development provides specific examples of language choices to be inclusive (3-5 mins).

References

Hooper, L. (2021, February 23). 8 best practices for designing infographics for diversity and inclusion. Venngage.

Ranvell, A. (2018, November 15). Inclusive design for accessible presentations. Smashing Magazine.

SlideModel.com. (2023). BIPOC Community Power Point Template.

Authors

Written by: Judith Gallimore (Associate Chair, Business at NorQuest College)

Reviewed and edited by: Rebecca Bock-Freeman (Manager of Academic Strategy)