Skip to content

Querida Duncalfe

Author

Menu
  • Peace by Piece: Unlearning Racial Bias
  • Something True
  • Undaunted
  • About Me
  • Subscribe
  • Merch
Menu

Category: uncharted territory

The Slap Heard Around the World

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Querida

**This post contains references to physical violence and may be triggering to some readers. Take care should you decide to continue reading.** By now, you have no doubt seen or heard about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars. It was a moment that was truly shocking – unlike anything I’ve ever seen…

Continue reading

Out of the Wilderness

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Querida

The Easter season always reminds me of frilly dresses and ruffled socks and memorized speeches recited on Easter morning. From Ash Wednesday somberly beckoning me to remember from whence we came, clear through to Resurrection Sunday’s triumphant declaration of victory over death, Easter brings with it a unique combination of holy contemplation and bittersweet joy….

Continue reading

Introducing: Matriarch

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Querida

Last spring, I met my parents, great-aunt, and a cousin in Wortham, Texas, where my maternal grandmother and her siblings were raised. I did not know that by the end of 2021, my great-aunt, her sister, would perish – and that this trip would be her final trip back home. So when I recently found…

Continue reading

Word of the Day

Posted on January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 by Querida

Today has been a lot, youse guys. I found hella typos in a draft of something I freelance wrote yesterday, which nearly sent me down a shame spiral. But I had no time to spiral, because I needed to read a book so I could write its description, begin editing the book since I have…

Continue reading

Undeterred: Dr. Mae Jemison

Posted on January 24, 2022February 4, 2022 by Querida

When I think of Dr. Mae Jemison, the image in my mind is of a smiling young Black woman in an orange astronaut suit, possibly wearing or holding the kind of helmet that astronauts wear when they embark upon a spacewalk. The image in my mind is static, unmoving. It’s lovely and placid.

Continue reading

Run

Posted on January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 by Querida

After reflecting on “build” at the end of 2021, I began to pray again for what my word would be. And after a few short weeks, one word kept coming back to me again and again…

Continue reading

Launch Party

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Querida

December 3rd is the day! Sly Girl Publishing will be celebrating the launch of Peace by Piece: Unlearning Racial Bias at Books and Barrels in Downtown Longview!

Continue reading

Pandemic University’s Teacher of the Year

Posted on February 19, 2021October 31, 2021 by Querida

In the future, may we find that the years we spent at Pandemic University taught us to replace popularity contests with support for each other that is so fierce that we never think to compete with each other. Instead, may we busy ourselves with making sure we never forget the fundamental lesson Pandemic University taught us: that we are enough just as we are.

Continue reading

The Call is Coming From Inside Our House

Posted on January 10, 2021November 1, 2021 by Querida

We cannot hide behind the cross of Christ and the promise of future spiritual unity and reconciliation, declaring thereby that we have transcended all the troubles of the world because Jesus saves. Because the call is coming from inside the church house.

Continue reading
mask

An Open Letter to First-Year Teachers

Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 by Querida

It isn’t always like this.

Continue reading
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next

Recent Posts

  • Certain Kinds of Outlaws
  • The Slap Heard Around the World
  • Out of the Wilderness
  • Introducing: Matriarch
  • Episode 112: Faith and Mental Health with Kimberly Galindo

Recent Comments

  • Browser MMORPG on About Me
  • AQW on About Me
  • MMORPG on About Me
  • Adventure Quest Worlds on About Me
  • Browser MMORPG on About Me

Archives

  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • August 2019
  • May 2019

Categories

  • history
  • Meditation
  • peace by piece
  • Podcast
  • Remember
  • Something True
  • Uncategorized
  • uncharted territory
  • Undaunted

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2023 Querida Duncalfe | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme
Cleantalk Pixel