Blog Posts
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A Quiet Word
A quiet message to the community. Some of you have wondered why we do the the Asks and have questioned where the money goes. After all, it’s just a bunch of memes and musings, right? I want to be plain. While I am willing to answer this question, I want to be clear that I…
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Mid-February Ask
Monthly Operating Budget: $1,497/$2,000 We are at 75% of goal with the end of the month approaching. As many of you have noticed, we have been making some significant changes, in faith that the Lace on Race community will hold us. Sustainers now have a new Community Group to engage on a deeper level with…
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The Four Tenets: Plant Roots
This is a story about sticking around. This is a story about Hesed. This is a story about muddy knees and chipped fingernails; a story of relentlessness, and reliability, and resilience. This is a story of soil. Terrible soil. Not fertile and loamy, but sandy and poor. Soil not worthy of the name. Soil that…
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Purpose and Power: Reflections from Inside the Classroom
I’ve been an adjunct professor of sociology for the past three years. I’ve been what they call a “freeway flyer.” As an adjunct, I would sometimes work at 4 different college campuses just to make enough money to pay for my rent and take care of my kids’ various expenses. It would be in these…
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Weekend of Hope: The Lace on Race Vision
This weekend was astounding for me. My heart is so full. Claire, one of our Admins, came down from Seattle and we spent some deep time, sharing, weeping, laughing, and eating. So much eating. Never straying from the little hamlet of La Mesa, next door from San Diego, but in our own world. Along with…
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Reflect on Whiteness, Reject the Myths, Engage in “Good Trouble”
— by Claire Ramsey As the calendar page flipped to January 1 2020 I started thinking about ideas I had and things I learned in the past 12 months or so about undermining racism, and picking out a few to broadcast to the Lace on Race community. This group means a lot to me. I’m…
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A Quilt of Vision: Abiding in Community
Reflection is something I do frequently. However, I have never had the opportunity to reflect over not just my growth as an individual, but also my growth as part of a community, at least I had never considered myself as part of a community. As a part of Lace on Race, I am finding more…
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Sitting in Liminal Spaces
So late last year, the Admin team here at Lace on Race decided that we would do a year end summary of sorts about our dreams and hopes–and also to let all of you know how much this space means to us. We asked a Community Member, Radha L. if she would be willing to…
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To The Beloved Community Of Lace On Race
To the Beloved Lace on Race Community: It is gratifying to see so many new faces, as well as now active faces who were once dormant. I strongly invite all of you, regardless of tenure, to visit or to revisit the Pinned Posts, which are your launchpad for maximum benefit in this space; a way…
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Hopes: An Introduction
We, the team here at Lace on Race, set ourselves the task of envisioning our individual and collective hopes for this beautiful space that we all share. It was supposed to be published as a sort of year end wrap up, but, as usual, life—with its attendant illness, travels, baby preparations, and the like—got in…