Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
Chapter 9 - Tools for Speaking Up
Chapters 1-10 of the book will include Skills Summary sections to help you review what you’ve learned in each chapter of the book.
Relevant bias habit-breaking skills segments of Diverse Joy include:
Speaking Up from the forthcoming episode “Most Joyful Show on Earth: Inclusion in Circus and Variety Arts” with Mark Hayward
Speak Up When Others Express Bias from “Individual and Collective Wellness and Self-care”
The question segment of this episode responds to a member of the listening audience asking, “If I’m the target of bias, do I have to be the one to speak up?”
You can also learn more about Speaking Up from this video covering Bias Habit-Breaking Tools 5, 6, and 7.
The main discussion topic of season 2’s “Unpacking the Science and Controversy Around ‘Implicit Bias’” cover the notion of “implicit bias,” including why the term “unintentional bias” is better when speaking up.
Overcoming Bias Habits - An Evidence-Based Guide to Creating a Joyfully Inclusive World
By William T. L. Cox, PhD is now available from the University of California Press!
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Season 3 of the Diverse Joy® podcast, which releases October 2025-November 2026 was designed to match the chapters of the book. Season 3, Episode 13 - “Addressing Bias in Education”, releasing October 2026, corresponds to chapter 9.