Blog Posts
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Hamelin, Egypt and Gangotri: The Plague of Evading Accountability
Every time someone mentions the debacle of whether to send our children back to school or not, I picture The Pied Piper. It’s really interesting, in a grim way, how many references to ye olde times we are able to conjure up now that we are living in the era of a plague of sorts.…
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Wish Anti-Racism
I am thinking about wish recycling as an analogy to white people’s anti-racist participation. My understanding of wish recycling is that it is when people put things that aren’t recyclable in the recycling bin because they wish those things were recyclable. It makes them feel good because they feel like they are recycling more and…
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So I Agreed to No Cookies… What About My Comfort?
A couple of lines of thought have converged for me over the past few days, in two particular comment threads on the Lace on Race Facebook page and in discussion with white friends who are doing anti-racism work. The word of the day today is “uncomfortable.” Since Lace has proposed the direct action she would…
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Meeting Eye-to-Eye
So there was a discussion thread on the post about Jim Golden and his latest lurking that forced me to face a clench I had been avoiding since watching Lace’s latest video on the Chromebooks. The thread referenced a post in Kinfolk Kollective and their community’s response to our participation in the Chromebook initiative. I…
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Can I Be Trusted With Cookies? Can I Be Trusted Period?
We’ve been talking a lot about cookies…. and about motives. We’ve been talking about Jim and his idea that if he tosses a little cash in Lace’s direction, that will be viewed as an olive branch or he will be viewed as ‘redeemed’ There’s a comment thread under the most recent post about Jim where…
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An Educational Mid Month Ask
This is a different kind of Ask. It is an Ask embedded in a conversation, preceding two upcoming articles, by Town & Country, no less. The conversation is about money. About Funding. About how we spend our dollars in service to our stated praxis. Not a new thing for us, but perhaps a new way…
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The “Show/Hide” Button
I make my living as a secretary. Some aspects of my job I like better than others. I enjoy formatting documents because there can be a bit of a puzzle aspect to it and I LOVE to solve a puzzle. The other day a coworker asked me to help them figure out what was wrong…
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Stolen Support
Right up front, I am going to issue a STRONG warning to stay in your lane. As a white woman especially, your focus should entirely on your role in how removing resources, security, and most importantly parental support from Black and brown families brings harm and violence to them. This extends out much farther than…
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Carrot Cake
By Radha Lath For the first time, we have signed up for a CSA farm share. Once a week, my husband goes to pick it up, and then we have to put in some time to scrub all the dirt off everything, especially the greens. It’s mind altering how good everything tastes when it’s fresh…
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Thunderbolt
Written by Radha Lath I am originally from Singapore, and have a background in English literature, with a focus on postcolonial fiction. The tension between nation building rhetoric, and literary truth telling about the impact of colonization has always held my interest. In recent years, my heart and mind have been greatly shaped by mothering.…