The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is motivated by our belief that museums can be culturally and socially useful. MOCA looks to artists and artworks to advance critical thinking and we aim to provide a community space for discourse.
We are saddened by the inequality and injustice faced by the Black community time and again. MOCA stands in solidarity with them and understands that our work, as a cultural institution, is to reimagine society by endeavouring to end ongoing systemic racism and oppression.
This page outlines some resources and ways to support anti-Black racism in our community and abroad. This is intended as a living document that will be edited and added to as we continue to listen and learn. We are looking internally to re-evaluate how art and the museum can play a more active role. We are asking ourselves what we can do to better serve the community and to support the voices of Black artists and thinkers. MOCA is donating to Black Health Alliance and Black Lives Matter Toronto.
Email us at info@mocalegacy.webpreview.site if there are any resources that you would like to see added or changed.
Donate to Fight Anti-Black Racism in Toronto
- Black Health Alliance
- Black Led Mental Health
- Black Legal Action Centre
- Black Lives Matter Toronto
- Black Lives Matter Toronto, Black Emergency Support Fund
- Justice for Regis
- Toronto Protestor Bail Fund
Follow
- @BlackArtnDialog (Instagram)
- @blackowned.to (Instagram)
- @blklivesmatter (Instagram)
- @DecolonizeThisPlace (Instagram)
- @DigitalJustLab (Twitter)
- @HereWeeRead (Instagram)
- @MireilleCharper 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship (Instagram)
- @MuseumMammy (Instagram)
- @NIACentre (Instagram)
- @TheConsciousKid (Instagram)
- @TheWedgeCollection (Instagram)
- @TOPhotoLaureate Michele Pearson Clarke (Instagram)
- @Rachel.Cargle (Instagram)
- @DesmondCole (Twitter)
- @WedgeToronto (Instagram)
Listen and Read
- About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge (Podcast)
- A Different Booklist: Children and Young Adult Literature: Recommended New Releases
- Afrobiz.ca/Toronto
- Anti-Racism Resources for White People by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein
- Black Lives Matter Resources
- Black-owned Businesses in Toronto (Google document developed by @j.a.l.i.l and @desperateidiot)
- Books for Littles: Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race
- City of Toronto Confronting Anti-Black Racism (CABR) Resources
- Critical Reading List by @landtolighton
- Embrace Race: 31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism and Resistance
- The Globe and Mail: Colour Code (Podcast)
- New York Times 1619 Podcast
- New York Times: An Antiracist Reading List
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Call it out: Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Rights
- Scene on Radio: Seeing White (Podcast)