By Adrienne Lauby Recently, I went to the funeral for Cirak Tesfazgi, a 32 year old homeless man who was murdered Sunday night in Santa Rosa. I didn’t know him but many of my homeless friends did. He was asleep outdoors near downtown Santa Rosa when someone he didn’t know …
by Z In June there was electricity in the air; change was just around the corner. The non-white members of the Unitarian Universalist Association (Unitarians) were pressing for more visibility as a group and accountability from the white members at the upcoming General Assembly. My friend Laura was beside herself …
by Judy Helfand An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz sat on my bookshelf for months. I’d picked it up because I admired the author, having read her memoir Red Dirt: Growing Up Oakie, which seriously grappled with whiteness. When I finally took the history off …