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 […]
Household Goods: The Case for Health Care Reform
My brilliant, beautiful and generous twenty-nine year old daughter shares an apartment in New York City with three other wonderful young women. All are college […]
Housing Tribulations: Still Can’t Catch a Break, January 2018
Over the past decade I have witnessed homeless and criminalized women enter and move through middle age. While they articulate ever greater understandings of their […]
Eulogy for “Junie”
The first time I met Junie I mostly noticed the scars on her face. They were the result of a stove blowing up when she’d […]
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 […]
A New Home for Carly
Background I first met Carly back in 2008 when, together with my colleague Maureen Norton-Hawk, I launched a long-term project following the life experiences of […]