“To All the Beautiful Black Women”
A Tapestry poem by Sherry Kappel
Sherry Kappel
OHF Weekly Managing Editor, poet, essayist, and Univ of Pittsburgh MFA graduate. Sherry looks for the best in people and is driven in life and her writing by empathy. She loves her family and running.
Check out the latest posts
Anger, Racism, and Black Women
From OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 6 No. 4 On the interplay of acceptable anger, America’s social caste, and gender.
Liberals, Allies, and Other Misnomers
From OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 6 No. 2: Memes, self-help gurus, and the like will tell you to ignore what others say about you, but the truth is that most of us are influenced by what others say about us.
10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups
From OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 33: So you want to be an ally–yay! But what exactly does that mean?
Medium Day Is Almost Here!
OHF WEEKLY, Vol. 5 No. 30: Editor’s Letter, “Respect and Love,” “When ‘Nurture’ Is Anything But,” a quote by Joél Leon.
When “Nurture” Is Anything But
Sherry Kappel on the ways we form our identity and how racism negatively impacts that development.