Books

The Truth About White People
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In the era of #BlackLivesMatter there is much said about the impact of racism on people of color, but no one explores the mythology of white supremacy that underlies racism and the ensuing harm it does to society as a whole. The Truth About White People is a collection of 15 essays using personal experience and knowledge to explore that myth and its true impact.
Review from Seattle Review of Books
Review from South Seattle Emerald
Review from Crosscut.com

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Taboos
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Lola E. Peters' first collection of poems is divided into three sections: Politics, Religion and Not Intended for Polite Company. Her poems explore war, race, suicide, sexuality and many other cultural Taboos.

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The Book of David: A Coming of Age Tale

What happens when a woman over 60 is confronted with a resurgence of romance? She writes poetry, of course! The Book of David: A Coming of Age Tale explores the confusion, excitement, sadness, and wonder of new love in an older heart.

Articles

• Now What?, South Seattle Emerald, August 2024
• What.Is.Wrong.With.Our.Species, South Seattle Emerald, November 2023
• The High Cost of Small Government, South Seattle Emerald, October 2023
• Guns Have Become the Tools of Cowards, South Seattle Emerald, April 2023
• Is this America?, South Seattle Emerald, February 2023
• Diagnosis: Christo-Fascism, South Seattle Emerald, July 2022
• Managing Guns in the 21st Century, South Seattle Emerald, June 2022
• Social Media's Existential Crisis, South Seattle Emerald, November 2021
• Political Intermission, South Seattle Emerald, August 2021
• The Perfect Girl, South Seattle Emerald, March, 2021
• Blackbird Fly: Hope During The Darkest Days Of Our Democracy, South Seattle Emerald, January 2021
• The year that we all needed health insurance, Crosscut.com, December 2020
• Vaccinate the world against COVID-19 like we did with polio, Crosscut.com, December 2020
• What Biden's win means: The moderate Democrat, Crosscut.com, November 2020
• Complex Journey of a Transitional Immigrant: Words for Rahwa, South Seattle Emerald, October 2020
• Sustaining anti-racism after a summer of protests for Black lives, Crosscut.com, October 2020 (Part 3 of 3)
• Joining the fight for racial justice? Learn to find accountable leaders​, Crosscut.com, September 2020 (Part 2 of 3)
• Carmen Best: The importance of nuance in confronting racism, South Seattle Emerald, August 2020 
• ​The perils of ‘helpful’ white people shaken by police violence, Crosscut.com, August 2020 (Part 1 of 3)
• Juneteenth: A cautionary tale, Crosscut.com, June 2020
• Mayor Jenny Durkan is not the trailblazer Seattle needs, Crosscut.com, June 2020
• Our 400-year nightmare requires a new American dream, Crosscut.com, June 2020
• Trump’s reliance on the private sector is no way to fight a war, Crosscut.com, April 2020
• ​Why I left the Democrats, Crosscut.com, March 2020
• Is bowing to business decaying our democracy? Crosscut.com, February 2020
• Mythology of the Highly Capable, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, November 2019
• Lymphedema, an undertreated aftereffect of cancer, deserves more attention, Crosscut.com, October 2019
• Counting all the ways we still need affirmative action, Crosscut.com, October 2019
• What seems like an intractable crisis doesn't have to be. Here are ways to solve homelessness, Crosscut.com, September 2019
• Seattle is addicted to bad narratives about homelessness, Crosscut.com, September 2019
• On building immunity against the temptations of war, Crosscut.com, July 2019
• PAC seeks to restore city council to its past...glory? Really?, Crosscut.com, June 2019
• How to thin the herd vying for your City Council vote, Crosscut.com, May 2019
• Don't call it a 'hate crime.' This is terrorism, Crosscut.com, May 2019
• Can we plan our way to a perfect health-care system, Crosscut.com, April 2019
• A new generation will redefine the American dream, Crosscut.com, February 2019
• School tech programs work. Seattle should fight to get this one back, Crosscut.com, February 2019
• Tim Eyman’s latest initiative would undo local transportation choices, Crosscut.com, January 2019
• Parallel Lives: Aids Activist Chad Goller-Sojourner’s Marching In Gucci, South Seattle Emerald.com, June, 2018
  Dance Beauty, Dance Truth South Seattle Emerald.com, April, 2018
• Call to Action 2018, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, January 2018
• The Great Dow Jones Myth, SeattleStar.com, April 2017
• 31 Days of Revolutionary Women #15: Anne Braden, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, March 2017
• How Should Dr. King's Legacy Be Lived Today?, #4, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, January 2017
• What's Up with Langston?, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, November 2016
• Preview of Power from the Mouths of the Occupied, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, October 2016
• Neighborhood Artist Spotlight: Valerie Curtis Newton, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, September 2016
• Let Them Eat Gravlax, SouthSeattleEmerald.com,
  July 2016
• The Gas-Lighting of a Nation, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, January 2016
• The Multi-Generational Teeter-Totter of Love, SeattleStar.net, August 2015
• Dear Mars Hill Alumni, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, January 2015
• Technology Access Foundation: Education Done Right, SouthSeattleEmerald.com, November 2014
• Are We Really Ready for a Big Disaster?, Crosscut.com, June 2014
• Dancing Life, SeattleStar.net, April 2014
• The Whole Truth, SeattleStar.net, February 2014
• Re-Cycling, SeattleStar.net, February 2014
• Patterns In Time (weaknesses in community organizing theory), Gustavus Myers Center Newsletter, Boston University, Boston, MA, Fall 2000; reprint Dissent magazine, Spring 2001.
• Sister, Sistah… The Parallel and Unequal Lives Of America’s Black and White Women, Women’s Theological Center, Boston, MA, 1998.
• Managing Editor & columnist, Ethics & Action, a quarterly newsletter for Unitarian Universalist activists, Boston, MA, 1990‑1997.

 
Selected Poems:

• On the day of..., Crosscut.com, January, 2020
• An elegy to the viaduct on the eve of its passing, Crosscut.com, January, 2019
• Motherhood Anthology, (selected poems), Quill & Parchment Press, 2012
• Threads, (anthology of the African American Writers’ Alliance) Author House, 2009
• The Sun Never Rises: A Rainthology, (selected poems and stories), Muddy Puddle Press, Tacoma, WA, 2000
• Various poems in online journals

 
Fiction

• The Perfect Girl, South Seattle Emerald, March, 2021
• When Open, Closed, SeattleStar.net, January, 2014