I Am Not Your Diversity
What is diversity? This is a question that I have seen answered in two different ways, depending on who is asked.
Terra Kestrel
Unassuming hobbit living in a Midori notebook with a pet fountain pen.
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When You Walk into that Valley
Those of us who live in this Land of Inequality, this desert, know there are no black-and-white answers. There is just a long, hard, emotionally exhausting journey of self-evaluation, critical thinking, and cultural study.
Our Human Family to Speak at Medium Day!
OHF WEEKLY, VOL. 5 NO. 29: Editor’s Letter, “There Is But One Fight,” “The Groveland Four,” “America Is Drunk on Racism,” and a quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
There Is But One Fight
If the disease “is greed and the struggle for power,” then it is greed and the struggle for power anywhere that we must fight.
On Practice and Grace
Terra Kestrel on the purpose of practice and grace, and what they both make room for.
The Magical Martin Luther King Is a Poor Symbol of Resistance
The Morgan Freeman character that Dr. King has become allows the narrative to center around white people overcoming racism.
Is God Love?
OHF WEEKLY, VOL 4 NO 18: Clay Rivers, Terra Kestrel, Michael Greiner, and Rebecca Hyman tackle love in Christianity, surviving and thriving as a Black person in white America, the benefits of restorative justice, and the origins of whiteness
Such a Thing as Grace
What does it take to survive as a Black person in a predominantly white world? Terra Kestrel shares the answer in this letter to her niece, Jayla, inspired by James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew.”