Blog Posts
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Everyday Hero Catherine DeBose
Hi! This is Laura, on behalf of Lace. Today is a beautiful day. Lace is abiding with Aunt Cathy right now, and it is Aunt Cathy’s birthday! Please join me in cherishing this incredible woman. Lace has written about how much Aunt Cathy means to her, and the good she has done in the world.…
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Early June Ask – Part 2
So ok, a song came on my Spotify today. Believe it or not, Robert Downey, Jr. made a record called “The Futurist” about 15 years ago. It was when he was still early on in his recovery journey, and the songs on the album reflect that. His voice is….um…*interesting*…but I care less about his voice…
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Early June Ask
So of course, the Early June Ask is late. Researching the rest of the Floyd series and doing back of house stuff has been the perfect excuse to ignore, or more accurately, pretend to ignore, my least liked task. So, I have been going my merry way this month–researching and drafting and engaging and mentoring,…
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Policing Post Floyd
We, in this second installment of considering the long term effects of George Floyd’s murder, will focus on police. Not only the police department which housed, and at least initially, covered and succored ex-officer Chauvin, but police departments in general; how they have evolved over time, the sometimes yawning divide between their stated mission and…
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Pride Month and the Erasure, Co-Optation, and Appropriation of the Black Liberation Struggle
It’s a joyous occasion, this whole month of June: Pride Month in many parts of the world. I am ready to be giddy; ready to don all the rainbow and now, with fewer restrictions, attend all of the (responsibly socially distanced) festivals, parades, panels, lectures, brunches, picnics–I am here for all of it. There were…
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End of May Ask
As we come to the end of May, I always tend to wax reflective. As your newly affirmed official Executive Director of the Lace on Race Center for Racial Equity (using our newly minted formal name), it has been a month of paradox–so much has changed, and yet, nothing has, really. What has changed–this new…
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Commentary for ‘to choose love is to choose death’
I am honored to be a part of this year’s cohort of Supermajority, and one thing we are blessed with has been hearing from some powerful and impactful women. Last week, one of these women was Hope Giselle, who I will be referencing for a future series; she packed so much into a 20 minute…
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Remembrance and George Floyd: Introduction To The Series
May 25. This is a day of remembrance in what should be a week of reflection. One year ago today, George Floyd was murdered by a former police officer in Minnesota. We can say ‘murdered’, rather than ‘allegedly murdered’, or ‘fatally detained’, or ‘unfortunately felled’ or whatever euphemism is usually drummed up when a Black…
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Vaccines and Medical Racism
In the last (at least for now) installment of the Race and Vaccines series, let us turn our attention to possible ways to address disparities in how the current crises has been handled in different cohorts, but also ways to impact the issue of medical racism as a whole. This pandemic has shone a bright…
