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On the nose…
Happy Sunday, y’all. It’s another fun time with me at the front porch, which is what I’m calling my essay posts these days, which you’ll see on Sundays. I started this email as a voice memo, which you can listen to below, and then afterward, read my more edited thoughts!
Episode 5 of the Defying Gentrification Podcast: Talking Atlanta and Baltimore Gentrification and Community Development with Derek Moore
On this episode of Defying Gentrification, I, your host Kristen Jeffers, talk to our first guest, Derek Moore, who came by to talk about their experiences with land use and gentrification. Stay tuned to the end to hear what I did after having this conversation! Plus our hot topic this
Reclaiming my making and my voice
Welcome to Kristen’s Gentrification Defying Front Porch (KGDFP)! On Sunday afternoons/evenings, you’ll find this essay of the week, my art/fiberworks in progress, and some of my other favorite things, distinct from my Ask Kristen Anything reminders/recaps on Monday and podcast release announcements on Friday, but I’ll do a little bit
Episode 4- The Urban Renewal to Gentrification Pipeline
On this episode of Defying Gentrification, I, your host Kristen Jeffers (she/they) clarify that gentrification is not a remedy for urban renewal, it’s the continuation of urban renewal, land theft and seizure, forced assimilation, and redlining. And on my street corner this week, I urge Black women to answer the
Defying Gentrification Episode 3 — Why We Must Eradicate Gentrification
On the third episode of the Defying Gentrification podcast, I, your host Kristen Jeffers (she/they), spell out why we need to treat gentrification like a disease and eradicate it. But first, on our street corner, the hot topic is the need to call in our Black siblings who think that
And here’s that new podcast!
Welcome to Defying Gentrification, Crafting Liberation, the newsletter of me, Kristen Jeffers. A Black, queer, feminist, disabled, urbanist elder millennial (born 1985) from Greensboro, North Carolina USA, who lives in Southwest Washington, DC. This newsletter is my personal letter opening you up to how I crusade for a better living
