“I was immediately moved by the invitation to the reparations course that was offered in 2023 and had wanted to learn more. I felt like it could be a good next step for us that would deepen our work for racial justice. And then, when I took the class with others, it was transformative.” - Rev. Katie Aikins

Two excerpts from a sermon Ant and Lucy preached at First United Church of Germantown (FUMCOG) on October 19th, 2025.

We are the people called to that work, in this time, as we look upon our treasures to discover the seeds of wars within them (to paraphrase Quaker abolitionist John Woolman), as we turn to face the truth of the past to discover what can bring us into wholeness, as we work to release our ancestors from the harms they caused and that they experienced, from the trauma they enacted and the traumas they lived through. 

Sometimes we thrived in times of suffering (many times through the sacrifice of others). Sometimes we suffer in times of "progress" and thriving (we were the sacrifices).

I’ve been thinking a lot about shapes recently, and how the structures of oppression impede the expression of our original shape, the shape of ourselves undistorted by the systems of racial capital, white supremacy, and colonialism.

Paula X. Rojas proposed shifting to birthing as the language we use for revolution. 

Recently I visited Savannah, Georgia with a dear friend of mine. Our first full day there, the incomparable Sistah Patt Gunn took us on a private Slaves in the City tour with her daughter Imani.

On Tuesday, February 25^th, Rough Drafts and repartionWorks hosted our inaugural in-person salon. The format of the event was a Salon focused specifically on a question of reparations

It all begins with an idea.