spends moretime namingequitycommittee thandoing equityworkreframesworkunrelated toequity asequity workEMSPAA sends anemail about theircommitment todiversity whiledenying diversitycommitteeasks you tosendresearch,doesn’t readit“a timetolisten”survey sentout, noaction takenfrom results“in this uniquetime” as ifracism hasn’texisted for thelast 20 yearsclaims wecan’t be racistbecause it’snot“intentional”“alwaysopen to yoursuggestions”“a productof society-wideinequalities”willing to violateendowment forliterally any reasonexcept admittingunderrepresentedstudentsstaff sets up 30minute equitymeeting, goeson 27 minuteunrelated rantsuggests a verylabor intensiveproject theyhave absolutelyno intention ofcontributing tosays “thank youfor youradvocacy”while denyingwhat you’readvocating foruses bureaucraticroadblocks thatcould come up asan excuse to dozero equity workwhatsoeversuggests you’redoing equity workincorrectly assomeone whostarted thinkingabout it 10minutes agoclaims Covidis preventingequity workclaims theprogram isalready diversebecause thereare Asianstudentsuses existence ofequity committeethat they don’t listento as evidence oftheir commitment toequity“intellectualdiversity”demands data,makes you payfor it, then getsangry at you forpublicizing itaccepts smallestpossible change sothey can say they’redoing “anti-racistwork” while denyingevery other demand“bandwidth”“ongoingdiscussions”spends moretime namingequitycommittee thandoing equityworkreframesworkunrelated toequity asequity workEMSPAA sends anemail about theircommitment todiversity whiledenying diversitycommitteeasks you tosendresearch,doesn’t readit“a timetolisten”survey sentout, noaction takenfrom results“in this uniquetime” as ifracism hasn’texisted for thelast 20 yearsclaims wecan’t be racistbecause it’snot“intentional”“alwaysopen to yoursuggestions”“a productof society-wideinequalities”willing to violateendowment forliterally any reasonexcept admittingunderrepresentedstudentsstaff sets up 30minute equitymeeting, goeson 27 minuteunrelated rantsuggests a verylabor intensiveproject theyhave absolutelyno intention ofcontributing tosays “thank youfor youradvocacy”while denyingwhat you’readvocating foruses bureaucraticroadblocks thatcould come up asan excuse to dozero equity workwhatsoeversuggests you’redoing equity workincorrectly assomeone whostarted thinkingabout it 10minutes agoclaims Covidis preventingequity workclaims theprogram isalready diversebecause thereare Asianstudentsuses existence ofequity committeethat they don’t listento as evidence oftheir commitment toequity“intellectualdiversity”demands data,makes you payfor it, then getsangry at you forpublicizing itaccepts smallestpossible change sothey can say they’redoing “anti-racistwork” while denyingevery other demand“bandwidth”“ongoingdiscussions”

McDermott Equity Work - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. B-spends more time naming equity committee than doing equity work
  2. O-reframes work unrelated to equity as equity work
  3. I-EMSPAA sends an email about their commitment to diversity while denying diversity committee
  4. B-asks you to send research, doesn’t read it
  5. G-“a time to listen”
  6. O-survey sent out, no action taken from results
  7. B-“in this unique time” as if racism hasn’t existed for the last 20 years
  8. G-claims we can’t be racist because it’s not “intentional”
  9. G-“always open to your suggestions”
  10. B-“a product of society-wide inequalities”
  11. N-willing to violate endowment for literally any reason except admitting underrepresented students
  12. O-staff sets up 30 minute equity meeting, goes on 27 minute unrelated rant
  13. G-suggests a very labor intensive project they have absolutely no intention of contributing to
  14. B-says “thank you for your advocacy” while denying what you’re advocating for
  15. O-uses bureaucratic roadblocks that could come up as an excuse to do zero equity work whatsoever
  16. O-suggests you’re doing equity work incorrectly as someone who started thinking about it 10 minutes ago
  17. I-claims Covid is preventing equity work
  18. I-claims the program is already diverse because there are Asian students
  19. G-uses existence of equity committee that they don’t listen to as evidence of their commitment to equity
  20. I-“intellectual diversity”
  21. N-demands data, makes you pay for it, then gets angry at you for publicizing it
  22. I-accepts smallest possible change so they can say they’re doing “anti-racist work” while denying every other demand
  23. N-“bandwidth”
  24. N-“ongoing discussions”