Sarah Eisner·May 26, 2022Dark RoomIn 2018, I work in the dark room, a makeshift antechamber entered through the wall of a regular classroom, at my son Ben’s middle school…
Sarah Eisner·Apr 1, 2021For Gary RiekesIn 2014, my son Wilson broke both of his arms — wildly displacing one of them — at his twelfth birthday party. Instead of cutting cake and…
Sarah Eisner·May 28, 2020We Have Two Weeks to Save the State of Georgia from Decimating Sacred ‘Weeping Time’ Land for a…(and I believe we can)A response icon2A response icon2
Sarah Eisner·Apr 6, 2020Reparations 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.
Sarah Eisner·Jan 21, 2020Personal Reparations 4: RepresentationIt seemed obvious to me that in a country grappling with what reparations to Black Americans for slavery and Jim Crow and beyond might…
Sarah Eisner·Dec 16, 2019Personal Reparations 3: Heirs Property, “Safe” Words, and ‘Slave Play’Spoiler alert: This essay details the last scene of “Slave Play.”
Sarah Eisner·Nov 7, 2019Personal Reparations 2: Black Wealth, White Saviorism, and H.R. 40Last week I caught a red eye to Hilton Head, spent a day recovering, and then my mother, step-father and I drove the 40 miles southwest to…
Sarah Eisner·Oct 24, 2019Personal ReparationsWhen reparations discussions began to make big news, I didn’t need to understand what, exactly, was being proposed — money…
Sarah Eisner·Mar 18, 2019Work Hard and Be Nice: The Work of Motherhood in the Cult of the ExtremeThere are many different kinds of religion. There is the kind of religion you are forced to observe as a child and that makes you feel…A response icon2A response icon2
Sarah Eisner·Mar 12, 2019In Silicon Valley (A Prologue)In Silicon Valley, I will like starting tech companies in my thirties for the same reasons I liked having open-heart surgery when I was…A response icon3A response icon3
