Daisy: Aging on the Margins
Nearly fifteen years ago my colleague, Maureen Norton-Hawk, and I began meeting with women recently released from prison in Massachusetts. our goal was to learn […]
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Francesca’s New Home
For more on Francesca see The Bitch at the Welfare Office. Francesca Gets the Keys “I’m getting the keys to my place tomorrow,” Francesca texted, decorating […]
Can’t Catch a Break: September 2018 Update
Over the past year life seems to have settled down for quite a few of the formerly incarcerated Massachusetts women whom I first met a […]
The Women of Can’t Catch a Break: January 2017 Update
Life is never boring for the women of Can’t Catch a Break. Over the past months they’ve faced serious health problems; they’ve struggled to care […]
The Women of Can’t Catch a Break: Summer 2016 Update
The past six months have been eventful: a birth, a death (see Eulogy for Nicole), a job gain and a job loss, family ties strengthened […]
The Women of Can’t Catch a Break: Late Summer 2015 Update
Click here and here for previous updates. Click here for the 2016 New Years update. For women who struggle with homelessness, summer can be a […]
The Women of Can’t Catch a Break – Christmas 2014 Updates
This is the second “Reader’s Guide to Updates” on the women of Can’t Catch a Break. (Click here for the previous update.) Not all of […]
Outcast Island
October 9, 2014 marked the end of an era for Boston’s homeless, ill and marginalized residents when the sole bridge to Long Island was closed […]