Resources for Antiracist Conference Design

As part of their consulting work at the 2021 Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, presenters contributed the following resources to support conference organizers interested in antiracist practices for conference design. Resources include handouts, presentation scripts, reports, and slides addressing topics such as equitable conference practices, compensation for BIPOC scholars' labor, community engagement, and antiracist organizational frameworks.

• Social Justice In and Beyond Conferences — Antonio Byrd. Best practices for building relationships among scholars, conferences, and local community activists.
• Questions for Antiracist Conference Organizing — Sumyat Thu. Critical questions of conference genres to promote publicly engaged scholarship and equitable conferences.
• "TheFeministsAreComing": But are They Anti-Racist? — Michelle Grue. Examines the labor of conference planning and critiques and promising developments in writing studies organizations, using Feminisms and Rhetorics as a case study.
• Context and Background on the Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference — Wendy Sharer. Covers the history and context of the FemRhet Conference and the Coalition of Feminist Scholars, including its historical whiteness in leadership.
• Excerpts from the 2021 Report of the Workflow, Formats, and Processes Task Force, CFSHRC — Wendy Sharer, Jessica Enoch, Jane Greer, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Heather Brook Adams. Recommendations for expanding antiracist and inclusive practices at FemRhet, including a proposal for the Fellowship Pod Program.
• "What Am I Doing Here?" When Conference Acceptance Doesn't Mean Conference Inclusion — Karen Tellez-Trujillo. Ideas for eliminating inequitable and exclusive conference practices.
• Antiracist Conference Organization, Planning, and Resources — Mara Lee Grayson. Questions for organizers related to policy, programs, and practice in ongoing antiracist work.
• Sharing Lessons Learned: From Antiracist Programming to Antiracist Conferences — Emily Rónay Johnston and Amanda Solomon Amorao. Three key values for antiracist work: intersectional collaboration, collective accountability, and radical care.
• Conferencing Toward Racial Literacies from the Post-White Orientation — Marcus Croom. An overview of the post-White orientation as it relates to literacy studies, Black education, and conference gatherings, plus an introduction to Practice of Race Theory (PRT).
• Special Issue: Conferencing toward Antiracism: Reckoning with the Past, Reimagining the Present — Writers: Craft and Context. Essays based on presentations from the April 2021 Watson Conference.