Posts by Sarah Eisner
Nancy’s Personal Reparations
In Memoriam: Nancy Thomas, 1969-2021 In 2016, a masters teammate asked me to take her place in the Escape from Alcatraz relay. I swam, a woman named Jen biked, and…
Read MorePersonal Reparations
When reparations discussions began to make big news, I didn’t need to understand what, exactly, was being proposed — money, acknowledgements, land, legislation — in order to know in my…
Read MorePersonal Reparations 2: Black Wealth, White Saviorism, and H.R. 40
For Part 1 of this story, click here. Last week I caught a red eye to Hilton Head, spent a day recovering, and then my mother, step-father and I drove…
Read MorePersonal Reparations 3: Heirs Property, “Safe” Words, and ‘Slave Play’
Spoiler alert: This essay details the last scene of “Slave Play.” Part 1 and Part 2 of this story can be found by clicking these links. “Understand…” seventy-four-year-old Andrew Quarterman…
Read MorePersonal Reparations 4: Representation
Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story can be found by clicking these links. It seemed obvious to me that in a country grappling with what reparations…
Read MoreReparations in the Time of Corona: Why they’re even more relevant now (Personal Reparations 5)
The rate of Black land loss doesn’t decrease during a national disaster. In that respect, our legal team came together just in time. The lawyer I called “Liz” in my…
Read MoreOur 10 Favourite ClimateStrike protest signs
[gdlr_core_space height=”30px”] I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove…
Read MoreBest & Less published their supplier lists
[gdlr_core_space height=”30px”] I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove…
Read MorePartnering to create a community
I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at…
Read MoreDavid Jones and Country Road support worker safety
[gdlr_core_space height=”30px”] I neglect my talents Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove…
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