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Teaching for Light: The Day Truth Leaked In
by sheloves“Yes, a freshman should be able to read silently and comprehend, use punctuation and behave for a full 55-minute period. But he should also never have been shot at, should have two loving...
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She Rises While It Is Yet Night
by Idelette McVicker“We are meant to grow around a table of words, sharpening our ideas, filtering our thoughts, trying them out in a public space so they find more clarity. We are meant to grow like...
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And Grace Will Lead Us Home
by sheloves“She has missions and justice and soulful passion flowing hot through her little veins, pulsing true and proud in the blood below her pale skin, even at nine years old.” By Cara Sexton |...
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To Build Anew
by shelovesBy: Catherine Sylvester | Twitter @MamaSylvester Twelve years ago, I put away the beer bottles, wine glasses, and hidden vodka. Nine years ago, the cigarette packets departed my life. Today,...
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Dear Mandela, The Only Way I Know to Walk Now is Long and Free
by Idelette McVicker“We locked hands and wouldn’t let go … because this journey—this long walk to freedom is so hard and it is ours to walk out now.” I read Nicholas Kristof’s tweet in the late hours...
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After the Verdict: A Mama Responds to the Trayvon Martin Case
by Kelley Johnson Nikondeha“We leave fear in the dust as we let our sons dread their hair, dance in the neighborhood park, and wear hoodies in public because we know we are deeply free in ways the...
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My Freedom Road
by sheloves Share on Facebook Retweet this By Siki Dlanga | Twitter: @SikeeDlanga I do not know my life apart from Mandela. Mandela is the reason I am able to write in this language today. He is the...
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A Prayer for Justice
by Sarah Joslyn Share on Facebook Retweet this Last month I attended a simulcast of the Justice Conference with some incredible Canadian SheLovelys you might know. Justice is a big word and I’d love to...
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The Black Wedding Guest
by Siki Dlanga Share on Facebook Retweet this I once attended an Afrikaans wedding in South Africa, where I live, and then vowed I would never attend another one in my life. I since have attended more...
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SYNCHROBLOG: We Are The Other
by sheloves Share on Facebook Retweet this By Austin Channing | Twitter: @austinchanning Too Black I grew up immersed in white culture through private education. I attended predominately white schools...
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When Listening Breaks Our White Hearts
by Heather Caliri Share on Facebook Retweet this A few weeks ago, a young man approached me in church to pass the peace. In the Spanish-language church I attend, this means moving around the room,...
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Faith, Interrupting
by Esther Emery Share on Facebook Retweet this I took my kids to their first protest this weekend. Ferguson solidarity, here in sleepy Boise, and by sleepy I think I mean predominately white. The...
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For a Faith That Flickers
by Bethany Suckrow Share on Facebook Retweet this My candle keeps flickering out in the chilly November wind. It’s the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving, and I’m standing on a Nashville sidewalk in the...
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Standing With Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Anne-Marie Heckt Share on Facebook Retweet this I come to this weekend every year and feel detached from the reality of Martin Luther King Jr.—his family, his friends and his community. I don’t feel...
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The Shalom of Sisters in #Formation
by Osheta Moore “When I first saw tap-dancing, I immediately got it: The righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet.” Shalom Harlow, Canadian model and actress Yesterday, my...
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How Do I Move Forward?
by Siki Dlanga How do I move forward if millions of our people are still living in poverty while some live in excess? I am talking about my country South Africa which consumes my existence. How do I...
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I Share My Story So Apartheid Does Not Happen Again
by Idelette McVicker “You know, it may sound funny,” my African-American friend from North Carolina said recently, “but I’m glad you were born in South Africa during Apartheid.” “If you hadn’t been...
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Picking Up the Trash of White Supremacy
by Abby Norman I was wearing my orange cardigan, the one that matched the exact shade of my newly painted coral toe nails. I had a turquoise necklace and my new sheer coral lipstick. I was summer Abby,...
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White Sisters, Let’s Sort Through the Trash
by Jody Fernando “White Ladies, the white community is our space and our responsibility. Our sisters of color have to exist in a world that is even harder on them because they are women and also...
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How to Become Woke
by sheloves By Jessica Goudeau | @jessica_goudeau My college students introduced me to the word “woke” a few years ago. The term describes people who are, as Urban Dictionary puts it, in a state of...
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