Fiction
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The Confederate Flag in the Hallway
This is an excerpt from an imagined, time-traveling, ancestral healing conversation I had with two of my racist ancestors in Texas, set in Uncle Lyman’s large home in Comanche, Texas in 1932. I talk to them about their involvement in “heritage” groups that celebrate the Confederacy — the Sons of…
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Nordeast: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1922
Reconnecting with my ancestors has been an essential part of my learning and unlearning. When I acknowledge what my ancestors lost in order to become white, I begin to understand the deep roots of white supremacy in myself. This piece is an excerpt from a larger work that imagines my…
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Healing Our Founding Pandemic
This story came to me during the pandemic while working on Inherited Silence and struggling to find loving ways to grieve our history, understand my Pilgrim ancestors, and heal the mind of the colonizer in myself and my lineage–all ongoing struggles in today’s world. I’m grateful to Whatimiss.space, a website…