Hello! I just got back from the Bay Area where among many things I had the pleasure of co-hosting a house party for POOR Magazine, and it reminded me that I should post that interview/conversation I did with Tiny in the last issue of make/shift. So here it is! Though you should really buy the magazine – you get lots of other amazing articles, plus an extra cute and dorky picture of me and Tiny.
Community Reparations Now! Tyrone Boucher and Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Talk Revolutionary Giving, Class, Privilege, and More
Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia is the cofounder (with her late mama, Dee) of POOR Magazine, a grassroots arts and media-justice organization in San Francisco. Tiny and Dee were houseless for much of Tiny’s childhood, evading various systems that threatened to institutionalize, exploit, and incarcerate them. They survived and fought back by remaining fiercely dedicated to each other, creating independent microbusinesses to make ends meet, becoming underground avant-garde art celebrities, and creating POOR Magazine to make silenced voices of poor and indigenous people heard through media and art. Tiny tells their story in her 2006 memoir, Criminal of Poverty: Growing up Homeless in America (City Lights). Continue reading “Community Reparations Now! Tyrone Boucher and Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia Talk Revolutionary Giving, Class, Privilege, and More”
the racial wealth divide and the UPR protests
Hi friends, I wanted to pass along two links. First, this article that talks about how the gap between Black and white household accumulated wealth quadrupled from 1984 to 2007. Second, this link to the Democracy Now coverage of the ongoing strike at the University of Puerto Rico.
Cross-class relationships and land projects
One of our readers wrote in with a really interesting question that I’m hoping you will all have feedback about:
“I’m writing because I’m looking for support, feedback, strategies and this seems like a really good place to find it. The subject is: a cross-class intimate relationship where the two people involved come from different class backgrounds AND, most saliently, have really different levels of access to money/resources right now. And, maybe, they want to embark on a big land-based project together (with other folks involved, but as the primary movers). This project will require many resources from both of them, but money can only come from one. You see how some issues might come up where support and strategies would be very helpful!”
Please share your thoughts by commenting. Thanks!