July 2012
8 posts
“Gentrification: The displacement of poor women and people of color. The raising of rents and the eradification of single, poor and working-class women from neighborhoods once considered unsavory by people who didn’t live there. The demolition of housing projects. A money-driven process in which landowners and developers push people (in this case, many of them single mothers) out of their homes without thinking about where they will go. Gentrification is a premeditated process in which an imaginary bleach is poured on a community and the only remaining color left in that community is white …”
—Taigi Smith, “What Happens When Your Hood is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express?” (via wretchedoftheearth)
“The connections between & among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.” -Adrienne Rich”
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