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Walking the Walk

By Arno Michaels ⋅ September 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Racism cannot be overcome without understanding it’s history and everyday impact on our lives. If that history is not actively and universally condemned—it will continue to be repeated, and the negative impact on today will be magnified. We must all universally condemn racism ourselves before we can ask others to.

This is where my story comes in…

By Theresa Nickol ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

To trust again is very crippling, almost paralyzing in some ways. The biggest door to open is the emotional one we will not open once we are broken. To reverse back to infancy or a stage of pure innocence does not happen no matter how many therapy sessions we attend or self-help books we buy. [...]

Seven, Thanks to You!

By Angie Aker ⋅ July 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Another month has been spent, living, learning, laughing, lollygagging and here we are. Issue 7 has materialized and I’m amazed, as usual, at just what a group of passionate individuals can put together when they decide to join forces. From last month to this month, that has been the lesson. That when you have a [...]

Six Months of Life After Hate

By Arno Michaels ⋅ June 25, 2010 ⋅ One comment

When I was about a year and a half old, my parents were building an addition to the plainish 1950s ranch house they had just bought. The structure my mother designed involved almost doubling the size of the house, and raising the roof to about 18′ to accommodate the cathedral ceilings and full-length picture windows [...]

Will Fellows: Shall Not Be Recognized co-creator

By Arno Michaels ⋅ May 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

“I view some of what’s going on in the political arena, this roller-coaster going back and forth, as just a natural process of cultural change happening. It’s not all going to happen in a neat all-at-once kind of way. It’s going to go this way and then that way and forward and backward, and then lurch left and right.”

Life After Hate: 4th issue!

By Angie Aker ⋅ April 19, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s Issue 4, Life After Hate readers! As Arno, all of our contributors and I have crafted each issue, it’s been interesting to see how the gestalt of each month’s cumulative work has a particular personality. Some issues come out very extroverted, celebratory and community-oriented. Some issues come out very serious and brave and confront [...]

Hatred- The Anger of the Weak

By Michelle Daniels ⋅ April 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

“Hatred…the anger of the weak.” Alphonse Daudet A man is a MAN. That was the thought in my family. Being Latino meant machismo. The only time you were soft was around family. These were the ideas I grew up with. My male cousins tried to live up to it, a few even joining gangs. One [...]

Life After Hate: Issue 3

By Arno Michaels ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Putting together each issue of Life After Hate is a journey unto itself. Labors of love tend to be that way. The kind of thing where the experience of creation and construction is as memorable and thought-provoking as the finished product –sometimes even more so. It’s been an adventure getting Issue 3 in effect, one [...]

Walls Meant to Fall

By Katharina Hren ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I was born in a divided city, a city of walls, Berlin. I was born on the side of color graffiti, where people partied all hours of the night, and intellectuals held court. My mother always said that I was a Berliner at heart, for I had my own sense of style and a sassy [...]

Shall Not Be Recognized

By Natali Huess ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

“Richard was the light and love of my life. He always, always encouraged me. Every problem that came up, he was there for me. He provided such balance for me and he was so protective of me and I of him. I was always afraid I would die first and that he wouldn’t get my [...]

Sammy Rangel “FOURBEARS: Myths of Forgiveness”

FourBears: The Myth of Forgiveness: isn't a simple memoir; it is a graphically illustrated guide from tortured child, to remorseless beast, to healing and change. This book is about helping others find their way out of their history and into the here and now. Proof that what once held you down can now hold you up. After the book reflects on a horrific upbringing it looks to offer key and ground breaking insights of the inner workings of the mind of a victim and later a perpetrator of hate and violence. Service providers working in treatment centers and institutional settings would greatly benefit from this work. Anyone facing issues with forgiveness and change might find a process toward healing and recovery.