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Since his release, Woods has been traveling around this state reminding people that no matter what they’ve been through, they too are worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13950397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13950397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Woods talking to people at San Quentin State Prison about the idea of being worthy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Woods talking to people at San Quentin State Prison about the idea of being worthy. \u003ccite>(David Chatman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through the \u003ca href=\"https://worthyfoundation.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worthy Foundation\u003c/a>, which Woods runs along with Quinton Jackson, Jacob Moynihan and Derek Foster, they have partnered with other volunteers to give free haircuts and resources to people living near the well-known unhoused community of Skid Row in Los Angeles. While there, his message was amplified when local artists painted the word “worthy” on a nearby wall. He’s also gone back behind the prison walls to do work, as he’s held workshops and performances at San Quentin in an effort to remind people of their value. And during a “Worthy Hour” show in his hometown of Sacramento, I got to see firsthand why Woods is so grounded, as his friends and family boisterously cheered in support of his art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods’ work is important, especially here in California. This state is home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/203757/number-of-prisoners-in-the-us-by-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second largest population of imprisoned people\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/homeless-population-by-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the country’s largest unhoused population\u003c/a>. And for many people, even those who aren’t living behind bars or sleeping on the streets, times are hard. In the scramble to pay bills and make ends meet, our inherent value as human beings often gets lost. So this week we talk to Rob Woods for a simple but profound reminder that you too are worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3473309213&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to Rightnowish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m your host Pendarvis Harshaw, bringing you a conversation I recently had with a talented musician by the name of Rob Woods. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob is an MC whose poetic lyrics speak of hard times and hope, the central idea in his music is that we’re all worthy beings. It’s best exemplified in his 2020 song titled, “Worthy,” a melodic and contemplative piece, with soulful lyrics about redemption.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This concept of worthiness, something he learned while incarcerated, also shows up in Rob’s approach to how he now serves the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He organizes with other volunteers to give haircuts to unhoused folks on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He also volunteers behind bars, speaking to people who are incarcerated in places like Marin County’s San Quentin State prison. And the idea of worthiness even shows up in his series of statewide live performances, which he calls, “The Worthy Hour.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob knows what it’s like to be at your worst, and then grow to be the best version of yourself. So this week we talk about music, meaningful messages, and his movement to remind people that no matter what you’ve been through, you are worthy. Stay tuned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, I saw you perform in Sacramento at the Guild Theater as a part of your show called The Worthy Hour. What is the worthy hour?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods, guest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s exactly what it is. It’s for one hour. You know, I’m trying to pour into those that are, you know, there in attendance, making sure that they feel worthy, that they hear the word worthy, that they understand the meaning behind it, which is for me, it’s knowing that you are loved, knowing that you are worth it, your worth, that you’re worth everything, everything that you want and you desire. I feel like people need to hear that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, you know, I just been able to do it through a musical display most recently, you know, being able to capture a dope audience and sit there with them for the hour and make sure that they’re hearing this, feeling this. And it’s not all just rap. You know, I try to assemble some musicians like my buddy K.J. Focus, who’s just really, really mean on the saxophone. He pulls up and he’s able to convey that same message to you without saying a word, just through his instrument.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started with me doing it only inside of prisons. But, I soon realized that even us out here, we need to hear that we’re worthy. It’s not just… some people that are going through things behind bars, like in all reality, we are all in need of hearing this word on the daily. So, you know, I just, you know, take pride in making it my job and doing it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was going on in your life when you wrote the song “Worthy”?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was finishing up my prison bid sitting on the top of my bunk. I was confused a little bit on like where where I was at, you know. I kind of didn’t even understand, like, damn, you fucked up so bad that you got here. But at that same moment, I did feel that like, God was with me. I’ve never done anything on my own. I felt the power of like prayers, you know, I had a really powerful prayer team. My great aunties came to visit me in prison. They would pray on me. And now I feel like I have just like these angels. You know, I had angels on earth, I have angels above. And it made me feel like I knew I was going to be okay no matter what.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You know, the words are “I admit that I did a lot of shit and I never been perfect, been through it all, but I feel like it was worth it. I’m not a perfect man, but I feel like I’m worthy. And if I’m worthy, then Lord, please have mercy on me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from Worthy by Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">`\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I admit that I did a lot of shit and I never been perfect, \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">been through it all, but I feel like it was worth it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not a perfect man, but I feel like I’m worthy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And if I’m worthy, then Lord, please have mercy…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the song, I just, I don’t know man, I just heard it in my head. I had a calling for it to write the music. I didn’t, I did not find it, the beats and all that until later on in life. But the initial template was just me writing in my journal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have a new song with LaRussell, who’s had immense success with putting heavy messages in his music and the Co-LLAB Choir. What was the conversation like leading up to that song?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a genuine approach on all fronts. You know, for me and… me and LaRussell it was just simply, you know we had done some shows. Pre-pandemic, you know, we did some shows where like we were just crossing paths, opening up for other artists and things of that nature. And, you know, we just had a chance to build a cool little rapport and a, you know, friendship through the music. And we waited until we found a track that actually just felt good for both of us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from The Road by Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel like I got the weight of the world on my shoulders but finally here\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Been through the winter, the stormiest weather but we made out to the clear\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I put my foot on the gas, I ain’t comin’ off, we bout to switch up the gears\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was locked in the cell, wasn’t worried ‘bout bail but the failure was my only fear\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I’m back on the road (Back on the road)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in my mode (Back in my mode)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in my zone (Back in my zone)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chasing the gold (Chasing)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song is called The Road. You know, it hit… it hit for him. It hit for me. The beat maker, Beau Knows Beats, it hit for him. It was just very, very once- once we got the correct beat, it was easy, easy flowing. For the Co-LLAB choir…I had no… I didn’t know anything about it. But once they brought it to my attention on my damn this choir is so dope. And um, they jumped on another song with us with me and Gunna Goes Global called I Know. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it was a heavy message based song but they elevated.. they elevated the sound. Took them\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no time for them to come back with their own versions of like how the song should sound and they amplified it in a way that I just can’t do on my own. I can’t do it myself, you know? I’m good with writing, I’m good with rapping. I think I can hold a note or two, but the power behind that choir and their willingness to be a part of this was like something that really amplified the track.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from I Know by Gunna Goes Global:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People always judged you\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You ain’t want nothin’ but somebody to hug you\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bills got you stressin’ it’s heavy on your back\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You tried to borrow money but they said they’d call you back\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hip hop has long had this issue with some music being, um, lighter. It serves a purpose, but it can be overly.. like we’re overly saturated with music that isn’t um, of high intelligence, I’ll say or isn’t um, relating to the soul and so, how do you go about putting substance in your music and making sure that it reaches people?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing that I want to do is make music that I care about and that I love. If I can’t do that, it can’t happen. Very hard for me to do that. So I just try to stay the course of like, do you believe in what you’re saying? Like the stuff that you’re writing about. Is this really you, is that really your life? Is that the image that you are putting out there, does that line up with the person that you are?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know what I believe in and what I don’t believe in. And I don’t believe in putting negative things out there. I don’t believe in hurting my brother or my sister in any way. I don’t believe in down talk of any kind to my people. So, you know, with this music, I just make sure that those things are checked off. Does this make a person… how does it make a person feel? Because this isn’t for me. It’s for someone else. I’m giving it to them. How does it make them feel? What did they take away from it? What effect does it have on them, during the, you know, the course of them listening? And that has just been my, you know, my rule of thumb in creating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your music is steeped in hope. Like, as I’ve listened, the first song that I really latched onto that black gold track, like I needed to hear that personally. It was, you know, around 2020 where things were pretty heavy. Thank you for that. And why does it feel important for you to have hope at the center of your art?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think it’s important to implement hope at the inside of the track because that’s all I am you know, that’s all I’ve been. And even the track Black Gold, that was not my original track. It’s actually a guy that I met when I was doing a tour into San Quentin Prison. He was very talented, his name is Antwan Banks. When he got out, he reached out was like, “Hey, I love to connect, let’s do some music.” He came to me with this idea of black gold, like that’s him on the hook \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Antwan Banks in a clip from Black Gold by Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know the price of black gold (Black gold, black gold, black gold)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know the price of black gold (Black gold, black gold, black gold)…”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Us as black individuals and… We’ve been painted a different color. You know what I mean. We’ve been painted a different light and it’s negative. But, you know, I really, really want to do my job in reminding us, like, how beautiful black is.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from Black Gold by Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">King like Nat Cole \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beautiful Black queens, all black bathrobes\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All that Black soul, sound like…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know that music is… it’s very, very, very, very powerful and it’s dangerous at the same time. I want to be on the side that’s putting something out there that people can take and that they can use in a way that it’s going to help, not hinder.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I’ve done work with folks who’ve been incarcerated in different institutions throughout the state as well as people reentering society, it’s been clear to me that that network, that community is essential in making sure that people get on their feet and reestablish themselves. Is this something you’ve experienced of seeing that… that network of even, um the kind of fraternal group of people you were incarcerated with even, have you experienced that as well?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The formerly incarcerated, I have seen what it looks like when they get out. There’s just absolutely nobody there. You know, I did my… my halfway house in the Tenderloin, you know. Very, very weird place for a prison to place a man after he’s doing prison time. You know, this is supposed to be a rehabilitation time of your life, but the halfway house in the Tenderloin, and we all know what it’s like there. You look to the left, you gon’ see a lot. You look to the right, you see a lot. It’s very hard to just get out and keep a straight path.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My sister was close to me, you know, like, literally right down the street. She lived in the Tenderloin too somehow and uh… I knew that that helped me a lot. She helped me with getting my first job, references. My other buddy Gunna Goes Global, he was in the halfway house when I got out with me, cause we met in prison. He gave me my first studio for $25 an hour. You know, everything that I really, really needed, it came from other individuals that wanted to help and just be a resource. And I feel like we all need that some times in our life, but definitely a person that has been going through incarceration. When they get home, they need all the help they can get. Positive reinforcements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People showing up for other people who might otherwise slip through the cracks of society. That’s…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yep\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s definitely what I’ve seen as well and so…\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">thank you for sharing that experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kind of fast forwarding a little bit. I understand that you grew up in Sacramento, you spent time in the Bay Area, then you moved to L.A. and when you, when you got there, you began working with the unhoused population, specifically around Skid Row. What did you see? What were your like, broad observations when you first got there?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it’s very sad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Very much like how it is down there in San Francisco area where you have Taylor Street, where it’s one street, at the bottom of the street, it’s the Tenderloin. It’s poverty. It’s homelessness. It’s… it’s, you know, it’s just a totally different world from the top of the hill. Here in Los Angeles, it’s the same way. You got your downtown area. You have a very rich area where people are thriving and like just three blocks over you have Skid Row, which is five to seven blocks of just total opposite of that. And\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I saw people turning a blind eye. I saw people making a point to go around these areas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The arts district is on the outside of Skid Row. Downtown is on the outside of Skid Row. Skid Row’s almost in the heart of the downtown area, but we make sure to go around it. And I didn’t feel good going around it. Man you know, I didn’t. I had to go in there. I had and it was during me making the video for Worthy, looking for all these dope beautiful spots to do the video. And I’m like, why are we going around what needs us the most?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like we went in there and we had. We had our brotherhood, we had our sisterhood. We had people that actually wanted to hear the message. That was eye opening. That was very awakening to me to like, physically see people wanting this message. I feel like that is the place that needs it the most. Let’s… let’s come together in a place that needs us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the earlier parts of your volunteer work was around haircuts. Why did you see it as important to give people haircuts in effort to show them that they’re worthy?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, the feeling of when you get a haircut, you feel like, ‘Aye, damn, you know, like I feel good. I look good.’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: ‘\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t have a dime in my pocket, but I feel good, like, let’s go get it.’ You know, that is the energy that I was able to get, even when I was locked up. I get a haircut. I feel good. I still got some years, but looking in the mirror, I’mma be alright. I’m okay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I had the opportunity to do the haircuts in Skid Row, I wanted to give that same energy. You know, and it was beautiful to see.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One guy flew out from Washington. His name is Juice and he was also incarcerated with me, but he’s a barber. He flew himself out. He stayed for a weekend, and then two other barbers from the L.A. area just.. they banded together and they sat on that corner and they gave up as many free haircuts as possible. And we literally watched… It was a transition, it was a transformation from no smile, to haircut, to mirror, to smile, to walking off, and feeling good, and attacking the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that’s like what my barber buddies were saying, they’re like, “Hey man we could give this freely. Like, this is the one thing that we possess that doesn’t cost us anything that we want to give away freely.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on your firsthand experience in these two environments, prison and then working on the streets with folks who are unhoused. What parallels or overlaps have you seen?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are two places where it’s clear that they need, they need somebody. They need help, right? You’re dealing and you’re doing with the least amount of resources possible. They don’t have a lot. They might not even want a lot anymore, but they’re making it work and they are trying. But I also see a community of people that have each other’s backs. You know, that’s one thing that really drew me to the area was like, even though they don’t have homes and houses and cars, what they do have is like a heart and a smile and they’re sharing. They don’t have shit, but they’re still sharing!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s some things that we need in society. We need, even in the prison system, it sucks to say, bro like the, the structure, the organization, the discipline that it- that they have in there, we need some of that out here. The minimal hopping on the phone to talk to people and the scrolling through our instagrams that they can’t do in there, I feel like we need a little bit of that out here to help balance you know, and keep us focused and stay on track.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a personal note, I know that the work that you do both as entertainment and also the work that you do, the social work that you do, can be draining. And this world just in general is taxing. And so I’m wondering, like when you’re down, what’s your… what’s your personal ritual to remind yourself that you’re worthy? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I just remind myself, like first off, it’s all in my name. I’m named after my grandfather. Very, very, very great man, he led the family, 11 children. I have 11 aunties and uncles. And uh, he was a great man. And I always just try to remind myself like… Will he be proud, you know what I mean, of the work I’m doing? I think so. You know, even with like, the distribution, this stuff I’m doing with the community, I learned that from him. You know, I used to ride around in the back of his truck and he would stop at food banks and grab bread and stuff after work. We’d pass it out, and um, so a little piece of this, like I don’t get drained when it comes to that is what I’m trying to say. I get, I’m very excited because that’s my.. that’s my work. That’s my connection with him. We just keeping it, we just keeping it alive.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, it’s a bit of a blessing. I’ve never not felt it. I’ve never not felt like God loves me, never not felt like my family loves me. To remind myself I literally just have to just speak, speak back to myself, speak to God, just being thankful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How was it felt for you personally, seeing your message resonating with folks?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know I’m a solo artist, I’m not signed or none of that stuff. Bro I just literally like, I have the opportunity and the ability to create something and people actually like it. People actually love it. Some people actually take it and it’s helping them. And that is like, the hugest payoff for me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s like cooking good food, man. And watching everybody at the table eat and get full and say it’s good. And then, you know, catch the itis and doze off, right? Like, I did it the right way. I feel like the same way with my music, and my message when I’m able to put it out there and the…. Man, it’s just… It’s… it’s amazing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Indeed it is. Rob, thank you. Thank you for your message, your work and your music. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The service of reminding people of their worth– that we are all worthy– is such a unique thing that can be easily overlooked, especially when so much is needed: housing, mental health resources, changes to laws, you name it. But if you, as an individual, don’t think you’re worthy, you could have the world and it would mean nothing. So, it’s a universal message and I hope you all gained something from this conversation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I invite you to check out Rob’s music, including his latest single, “The Road,” which is done in collaboration with Vallejo’s LaRussell and The Co-LLAB Choir, find it wherever you stream music. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you can keep up with Rob Woods on instagram, at robwooods, all one word. Rob R-O-B. Woods is spelled with three O’s. 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Since his release, Woods has been traveling around this state reminding people that no matter what they’ve been through, they too are worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13950397\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13950397\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Woods talking to people at San Quentin State Prison about the idea of being worthy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/Rob-Woods_-Photo_by_David_Chatman-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Woods talking to people at San Quentin State Prison about the idea of being worthy. \u003ccite>(David Chatman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Through the \u003ca href=\"https://worthyfoundation.myshopify.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Worthy Foundation\u003c/a>, which Woods runs along with Quinton Jackson, Jacob Moynihan and Derek Foster, they have partnered with other volunteers to give free haircuts and resources to people living near the well-known unhoused community of Skid Row in Los Angeles. While there, his message was amplified when local artists painted the word “worthy” on a nearby wall. He’s also gone back behind the prison walls to do work, as he’s held workshops and performances at San Quentin in an effort to remind people of their value. And during a “Worthy Hour” show in his hometown of Sacramento, I got to see firsthand why Woods is so grounded, as his friends and family boisterously cheered in support of his art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods’ work is important, especially here in California. This state is home to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/203757/number-of-prisoners-in-the-us-by-states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second largest population of imprisoned people\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/homeless-population-by-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the country’s largest unhoused population\u003c/a>. And for many people, even those who aren’t living behind bars or sleeping on the streets, times are hard. In the scramble to pay bills and make ends meet, our inherent value as human beings often gets lost. So this week we talk to Rob Woods for a simple but profound reminder that you too are worthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3473309213&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw, host: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to Rightnowish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m your host Pendarvis Harshaw, bringing you a conversation I recently had with a talented musician by the name of Rob Woods. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob is an MC whose poetic lyrics speak of hard times and hope, the central idea in his music is that we’re all worthy beings. It’s best exemplified in his 2020 song titled, “Worthy,” a melodic and contemplative piece, with soulful lyrics about redemption.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This concept of worthiness, something he learned while incarcerated, also shows up in Rob’s approach to how he now serves the community. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He organizes with other volunteers to give haircuts to unhoused folks on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He also volunteers behind bars, speaking to people who are incarcerated in places like Marin County’s San Quentin State prison. And the idea of worthiness even shows up in his series of statewide live performances, which he calls, “The Worthy Hour.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rob knows what it’s like to be at your worst, and then grow to be the best version of yourself. So this week we talk about music, meaningful messages, and his movement to remind people that no matter what you’ve been through, you are worthy. Stay tuned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, I saw you perform in Sacramento at the Guild Theater as a part of your show called The Worthy Hour. What is the worthy hour?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods, guest: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s exactly what it is. It’s for one hour. You know, I’m trying to pour into those that are, you know, there in attendance, making sure that they feel worthy, that they hear the word worthy, that they understand the meaning behind it, which is for me, it’s knowing that you are loved, knowing that you are worth it, your worth, that you’re worth everything, everything that you want and you desire. I feel like people need to hear that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And, you know, I just been able to do it through a musical display most recently, you know, being able to capture a dope audience and sit there with them for the hour and make sure that they’re hearing this, feeling this. And it’s not all just rap. You know, I try to assemble some musicians like my buddy K.J. Focus, who’s just really, really mean on the saxophone. He pulls up and he’s able to convey that same message to you without saying a word, just through his instrument.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started with me doing it only inside of prisons. But, I soon realized that even us out here, we need to hear that we’re worthy. It’s not just… some people that are going through things behind bars, like in all reality, we are all in need of hearing this word on the daily. So, you know, I just, you know, take pride in making it my job and doing it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What was going on in your life when you wrote the song “Worthy”?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was finishing up my prison bid sitting on the top of my bunk. I was confused a little bit on like where where I was at, you know. I kind of didn’t even understand, like, damn, you fucked up so bad that you got here. But at that same moment, I did feel that like, God was with me. I’ve never done anything on my own. I felt the power of like prayers, you know, I had a really powerful prayer team. My great aunties came to visit me in prison. They would pray on me. And now I feel like I have just like these angels. You know, I had angels on earth, I have angels above. And it made me feel like I knew I was going to be okay no matter what.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> You know, the words are “I admit that I did a lot of shit and I never been perfect, been through it all, but I feel like it was worth it. I’m not a perfect man, but I feel like I’m worthy. And if I’m worthy, then Lord, please have mercy on me.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from Worthy by Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">`\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I admit that I did a lot of shit and I never been perfect, \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">been through it all, but I feel like it was worth it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not a perfect man, but I feel like I’m worthy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And if I’m worthy, then Lord, please have mercy…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the song, I just, I don’t know man, I just heard it in my head. I had a calling for it to write the music. I didn’t, I did not find it, the beats and all that until later on in life. But the initial template was just me writing in my journal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have a new song with LaRussell, who’s had immense success with putting heavy messages in his music and the Co-LLAB Choir. What was the conversation like leading up to that song?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a genuine approach on all fronts. You know, for me and… me and LaRussell it was just simply, you know we had done some shows. Pre-pandemic, you know, we did some shows where like we were just crossing paths, opening up for other artists and things of that nature. And, you know, we just had a chance to build a cool little rapport and a, you know, friendship through the music. And we waited until we found a track that actually just felt good for both of us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from The Road by Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel like I got the weight of the world on my shoulders but finally here\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Been through the winter, the stormiest weather but we made out to the clear\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I put my foot on the gas, I ain’t comin’ off, we bout to switch up the gears\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was locked in the cell, wasn’t worried ‘bout bail but the failure was my only fear\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I’m back on the road (Back on the road)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in my mode (Back in my mode)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in my zone (Back in my zone)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chasing the gold (Chasing)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The song is called The Road. You know, it hit… it hit for him. It hit for me. The beat maker, Beau Knows Beats, it hit for him. It was just very, very once- once we got the correct beat, it was easy, easy flowing. For the Co-LLAB choir…I had no… I didn’t know anything about it. But once they brought it to my attention on my damn this choir is so dope. And um, they jumped on another song with us with me and Gunna Goes Global called I Know. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it was a heavy message based song but they elevated.. they elevated the sound. Took them\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no time for them to come back with their own versions of like how the song should sound and they amplified it in a way that I just can’t do on my own. I can’t do it myself, you know? I’m good with writing, I’m good with rapping. I think I can hold a note or two, but the power behind that choir and their willingness to be a part of this was like something that really amplified the track.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from I Know by Gunna Goes Global:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People always judged you\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You ain’t want nothin’ but somebody to hug you\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bills got you stressin’ it’s heavy on your back\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You tried to borrow money but they said they’d call you back\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hip hop has long had this issue with some music being, um, lighter. It serves a purpose, but it can be overly.. like we’re overly saturated with music that isn’t um, of high intelligence, I’ll say or isn’t um, relating to the soul and so, how do you go about putting substance in your music and making sure that it reaches people?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing that I want to do is make music that I care about and that I love. If I can’t do that, it can’t happen. Very hard for me to do that. So I just try to stay the course of like, do you believe in what you’re saying? Like the stuff that you’re writing about. Is this really you, is that really your life? Is that the image that you are putting out there, does that line up with the person that you are?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know what I believe in and what I don’t believe in. And I don’t believe in putting negative things out there. I don’t believe in hurting my brother or my sister in any way. I don’t believe in down talk of any kind to my people. So, you know, with this music, I just make sure that those things are checked off. Does this make a person… how does it make a person feel? Because this isn’t for me. It’s for someone else. I’m giving it to them. How does it make them feel? What did they take away from it? What effect does it have on them, during the, you know, the course of them listening? And that has just been my, you know, my rule of thumb in creating.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your music is steeped in hope. Like, as I’ve listened, the first song that I really latched onto that black gold track, like I needed to hear that personally. It was, you know, around 2020 where things were pretty heavy. Thank you for that. And why does it feel important for you to have hope at the center of your art?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think it’s important to implement hope at the inside of the track because that’s all I am you know, that’s all I’ve been. And even the track Black Gold, that was not my original track. It’s actually a guy that I met when I was doing a tour into San Quentin Prison. He was very talented, his name is Antwan Banks. When he got out, he reached out was like, “Hey, I love to connect, let’s do some music.” He came to me with this idea of black gold, like that’s him on the hook \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Antwan Banks in a clip from Black Gold by Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know the price of black gold (Black gold, black gold, black gold)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know the price of black gold (Black gold, black gold, black gold)…”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Us as black individuals and… We’ve been painted a different color. You know what I mean. We’ve been painted a different light and it’s negative. But, you know, I really, really want to do my job in reminding us, like, how beautiful black is.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Clip from Black Gold by Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">King like Nat Cole \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beautiful Black queens, all black bathrobes\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All that Black soul, sound like…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know that music is… it’s very, very, very, very powerful and it’s dangerous at the same time. I want to be on the side that’s putting something out there that people can take and that they can use in a way that it’s going to help, not hinder.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I’ve done work with folks who’ve been incarcerated in different institutions throughout the state as well as people reentering society, it’s been clear to me that that network, that community is essential in making sure that people get on their feet and reestablish themselves. Is this something you’ve experienced of seeing that… that network of even, um the kind of fraternal group of people you were incarcerated with even, have you experienced that as well?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The formerly incarcerated, I have seen what it looks like when they get out. There’s just absolutely nobody there. You know, I did my… my halfway house in the Tenderloin, you know. Very, very weird place for a prison to place a man after he’s doing prison time. You know, this is supposed to be a rehabilitation time of your life, but the halfway house in the Tenderloin, and we all know what it’s like there. You look to the left, you gon’ see a lot. You look to the right, you see a lot. It’s very hard to just get out and keep a straight path.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My sister was close to me, you know, like, literally right down the street. She lived in the Tenderloin too somehow and uh… I knew that that helped me a lot. She helped me with getting my first job, references. My other buddy Gunna Goes Global, he was in the halfway house when I got out with me, cause we met in prison. He gave me my first studio for $25 an hour. You know, everything that I really, really needed, it came from other individuals that wanted to help and just be a resource. And I feel like we all need that some times in our life, but definitely a person that has been going through incarceration. When they get home, they need all the help they can get. Positive reinforcements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People showing up for other people who might otherwise slip through the cracks of society. That’s…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yep\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That’s definitely what I’ve seen as well and so…\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">thank you for sharing that experience. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kind of fast forwarding a little bit. I understand that you grew up in Sacramento, you spent time in the Bay Area, then you moved to L.A. and when you, when you got there, you began working with the unhoused population, specifically around Skid Row. What did you see? What were your like, broad observations when you first got there?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, it’s very sad. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Very much like how it is down there in San Francisco area where you have Taylor Street, where it’s one street, at the bottom of the street, it’s the Tenderloin. It’s poverty. It’s homelessness. It’s… it’s, you know, it’s just a totally different world from the top of the hill. Here in Los Angeles, it’s the same way. You got your downtown area. You have a very rich area where people are thriving and like just three blocks over you have Skid Row, which is five to seven blocks of just total opposite of that. And\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I saw people turning a blind eye. I saw people making a point to go around these areas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The arts district is on the outside of Skid Row. Downtown is on the outside of Skid Row. Skid Row’s almost in the heart of the downtown area, but we make sure to go around it. And I didn’t feel good going around it. Man you know, I didn’t. I had to go in there. I had and it was during me making the video for Worthy, looking for all these dope beautiful spots to do the video. And I’m like, why are we going around what needs us the most?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like we went in there and we had. We had our brotherhood, we had our sisterhood. We had people that actually wanted to hear the message. That was eye opening. That was very awakening to me to like, physically see people wanting this message. I feel like that is the place that needs it the most. Let’s… let’s come together in a place that needs us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the earlier parts of your volunteer work was around haircuts. Why did you see it as important to give people haircuts in effort to show them that they’re worthy?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, the feeling of when you get a haircut, you feel like, ‘Aye, damn, you know, like I feel good. I look good.’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: ‘\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t have a dime in my pocket, but I feel good, like, let’s go get it.’ You know, that is the energy that I was able to get, even when I was locked up. I get a haircut. I feel good. I still got some years, but looking in the mirror, I’mma be alright. I’m okay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I had the opportunity to do the haircuts in Skid Row, I wanted to give that same energy. You know, and it was beautiful to see.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One guy flew out from Washington. His name is Juice and he was also incarcerated with me, but he’s a barber. He flew himself out. He stayed for a weekend, and then two other barbers from the L.A. area just.. they banded together and they sat on that corner and they gave up as many free haircuts as possible. And we literally watched… It was a transition, it was a transformation from no smile, to haircut, to mirror, to smile, to walking off, and feeling good, and attacking the day.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And that’s like what my barber buddies were saying, they’re like, “Hey man we could give this freely. Like, this is the one thing that we possess that doesn’t cost us anything that we want to give away freely.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on your firsthand experience in these two environments, prison and then working on the streets with folks who are unhoused. What parallels or overlaps have you seen?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are two places where it’s clear that they need, they need somebody. They need help, right? You’re dealing and you’re doing with the least amount of resources possible. They don’t have a lot. They might not even want a lot anymore, but they’re making it work and they are trying. But I also see a community of people that have each other’s backs. You know, that’s one thing that really drew me to the area was like, even though they don’t have homes and houses and cars, what they do have is like a heart and a smile and they’re sharing. They don’t have shit, but they’re still sharing!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s some things that we need in society. We need, even in the prison system, it sucks to say, bro like the, the structure, the organization, the discipline that it- that they have in there, we need some of that out here. The minimal hopping on the phone to talk to people and the scrolling through our instagrams that they can’t do in there, I feel like we need a little bit of that out here to help balance you know, and keep us focused and stay on track.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a personal note, I know that the work that you do both as entertainment and also the work that you do, the social work that you do, can be draining. And this world just in general is taxing. And so I’m wondering, like when you’re down, what’s your… what’s your personal ritual to remind yourself that you’re worthy? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I just remind myself, like first off, it’s all in my name. I’m named after my grandfather. Very, very, very great man, he led the family, 11 children. I have 11 aunties and uncles. And uh, he was a great man. And I always just try to remind myself like… Will he be proud, you know what I mean, of the work I’m doing? I think so. You know, even with like, the distribution, this stuff I’m doing with the community, I learned that from him. You know, I used to ride around in the back of his truck and he would stop at food banks and grab bread and stuff after work. We’d pass it out, and um, so a little piece of this, like I don’t get drained when it comes to that is what I’m trying to say. I get, I’m very excited because that’s my.. that’s my work. That’s my connection with him. We just keeping it, we just keeping it alive.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, it’s a bit of a blessing. I’ve never not felt it. I’ve never not felt like God loves me, never not felt like my family loves me. To remind myself I literally just have to just speak, speak back to myself, speak to God, just being thankful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How was it felt for you personally, seeing your message resonating with folks?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know I’m a solo artist, I’m not signed or none of that stuff. Bro I just literally like, I have the opportunity and the ability to create something and people actually like it. People actually love it. Some people actually take it and it’s helping them. And that is like, the hugest payoff for me. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rob Woods: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s like cooking good food, man. And watching everybody at the table eat and get full and say it’s good. And then, you know, catch the itis and doze off, right? Like, I did it the right way. I feel like the same way with my music, and my message when I’m able to put it out there and the…. Man, it’s just… It’s… it’s amazing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Pendarvis Harshaw:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Indeed it is. Rob, thank you. Thank you for your message, your work and your music. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The service of reminding people of their worth– that we are all worthy– is such a unique thing that can be easily overlooked, especially when so much is needed: housing, mental health resources, changes to laws, you name it. But if you, as an individual, don’t think you’re worthy, you could have the world and it would mean nothing. So, it’s a universal message and I hope you all gained something from this conversation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I invite you to check out Rob’s music, including his latest single, “The Road,” which is done in collaboration with Vallejo’s LaRussell and The Co-LLAB Choir, find it wherever you stream music. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you can keep up with Rob Woods on instagram, at robwooods, all one word. Rob R-O-B. Woods is spelled with three O’s. 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Copeland will be on stage to present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuiMrxuSR2o\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland hopes \u003cem>Flower\u003c/em> not only highlights the housing affordability crisis, but challenges the tropes of what homelessness looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is the first for Copeland’s production company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lifeinmotionproductions/\">Life in Motion\u003c/a>, which she co-founded with ballerina Leyla Fayyaz, an Emmy-winning producer. Also behind the scenes of \u003cem>Flower\u003c/em> is a who’s-who of Bay Area-bred stars. Grammy-winning artist Raphael Saadiq composed the score, with a stirring, repeated refrain of “I’m heeeeere now” that won’t soon leave the viewer’s memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street dancers-turned-choreographers to the stars Rich and Tone Talauega, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.richandtoneproductions.com/\">Rich + Tone\u003c/a>, contribute their moves. Raised in Richmond, the brothers were discovered by one of Michael Jackson’s choreographers while freestyling at an Oakland club in the early ’90s. And \u003ca href=\"https://linesballet.org/lines-ballet-mission-and-purpose/alonzo-king/\">Alonzo King\u003c/a> (of San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet), who’s known Copeland since she was a teen, also choreographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman float in repose against a black background\" width=\"980\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2.jpg 980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2-768x321.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misty Copeland with co-star Babatunji Johnson in the short film ‘Flower.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Life in Motion Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local talent shines on screen, as well. Bay Area dancer \u003ca href=\"https://babatunjijohnson.com/\">Babatunji Johnson\u003c/a> co-stars with Copeland; turf dancers – including Algerion “Krow” Bryant – perform in the film; and Oakland Ballet youth appear as students in a scene where Copeland’s character teaches a ballet class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was important that we had people [who] are from the community,” says Copeland, whose husband, Olu Evans, was born and raised in Oakland. “Not necessarily for the world, but for that community to say, ‘we know that person,’ [or] ‘there’s that place – Mama’s Royal Café.’ That’s our community. That’s really us. It’s not this Hollywood facade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a black top and hair pulled back looks up as older houses stand in the background\" width=\"1600\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-1020x427.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-768x322.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-1536x643.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misty Copeland in ‘Flower.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Life in Motion Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That same intention also went into incorporating the real experiences of the three unhoused community members in the West Oakland RV encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made sense to use that one opportunity where people speak, to give that opportunity to people who are often voiceless or overlooked,” Copeland says. “I feel like it really is the glue that brings the story together in a powerful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_11230644']The Sept. 29 event at the Paramount Theatre also features live dance performances by Johnson, Krow, turf dancers, \u003ca href=\"https://destinyarts.org/\">Destiny Arts\u003c/a> youth and ballerina \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfballet.org/artist/angela-watson-2/\">Angela Watson\u003c/a> from Oakland. Highlights from the Oakland Ballet Company shows Luna Mexicana, Dancing Moons Festival and The Nutcracker round out the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s super exciting,” Copeland says of the long-awaited Oakland premiere. “We hope that we did the community justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Flower,’ starring Misty Copeland, premieres at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The film premiere is accompanied by live performances by Oakland Ballet and others. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandballet.org/flower/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With a 28-minute film addressing housing insecurity, Copeland kicks off Oakland Ballet’s new season. \r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705003336,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":626},"headData":{"title":"Ballerina Misty Copeland to Premiere ‘Flower’ in Oakland | KQED","description":"With a 28-minute film addressing housing insecurity, Copeland kicks off Oakland Ballet’s new season. \r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Ballerina Misty Copeland to Premiere ‘Flower’ in Oakland","datePublished":"2023-09-22T13:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:02:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/7bf58925-6050-4602-8d1c-b08c014d45d6/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13935225/ballerina-misty-copeland-to-premiere-flower-in-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The only voices heard in \u003cem>Flower\u003c/em>, a 28-minute film produced by world-renowned ballet dancer \u003ca href=\"https://mistycopeland.com/\">Misty Copeland\u003c/a>, belong to three unhoused residents of an RV encampment in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The choice was very much intentional — Copeland herself experienced housing and food insecurity for much of her childhood. “It can happen to anyone,” she says in an interview. “So many Americans are one paycheck away from losing their home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A film about a woman struggling to hang on to the family home she shares with her dementia-stricken mother, \u003cem>Flower\u003c/em> screens on Friday, Sept. 29, as part of Oakland Ballet’s season opener at the Paramount Theatre. Copeland will be on stage to present.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FuiMrxuSR2o'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FuiMrxuSR2o'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland hopes \u003cem>Flower\u003c/em> not only highlights the housing affordability crisis, but challenges the tropes of what homelessness looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is the first for Copeland’s production company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lifeinmotionproductions/\">Life in Motion\u003c/a>, which she co-founded with ballerina Leyla Fayyaz, an Emmy-winning producer. Also behind the scenes of \u003cem>Flower\u003c/em> is a who’s-who of Bay Area-bred stars. Grammy-winning artist Raphael Saadiq composed the score, with a stirring, repeated refrain of “I’m heeeeere now” that won’t soon leave the viewer’s memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street dancers-turned-choreographers to the stars Rich and Tone Talauega, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.richandtoneproductions.com/\">Rich + Tone\u003c/a>, contribute their moves. Raised in Richmond, the brothers were discovered by one of Michael Jackson’s choreographers while freestyling at an Oakland club in the early ’90s. And \u003ca href=\"https://linesballet.org/lines-ballet-mission-and-purpose/alonzo-king/\">Alonzo King\u003c/a> (of San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet), who’s known Copeland since she was a teen, also choreographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935226\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935226\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2.jpg\" alt=\"A man and woman float in repose against a black background\" width=\"980\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2.jpg 980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-2-768x321.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misty Copeland with co-star Babatunji Johnson in the short film ‘Flower.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Life in Motion Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Local talent shines on screen, as well. Bay Area dancer \u003ca href=\"https://babatunjijohnson.com/\">Babatunji Johnson\u003c/a> co-stars with Copeland; turf dancers – including Algerion “Krow” Bryant – perform in the film; and Oakland Ballet youth appear as students in a scene where Copeland’s character teaches a ballet class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was important that we had people [who] are from the community,” says Copeland, whose husband, Olu Evans, was born and raised in Oakland. “Not necessarily for the world, but for that community to say, ‘we know that person,’ [or] ‘there’s that place – Mama’s Royal Café.’ That’s our community. That’s really us. It’s not this Hollywood facade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13935227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13935227\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a black top and hair pulled back looks up as older houses stand in the background\" width=\"1600\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-1020x427.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-768x322.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/Untitled-1-1536x643.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misty Copeland in ‘Flower.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Life in Motion Productions)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That same intention also went into incorporating the real experiences of the three unhoused community members in the West Oakland RV encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made sense to use that one opportunity where people speak, to give that opportunity to people who are often voiceless or overlooked,” Copeland says. “I feel like it really is the glue that brings the story together in a powerful way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_11230644","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Sept. 29 event at the Paramount Theatre also features live dance performances by Johnson, Krow, turf dancers, \u003ca href=\"https://destinyarts.org/\">Destiny Arts\u003c/a> youth and ballerina \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfballet.org/artist/angela-watson-2/\">Angela Watson\u003c/a> from Oakland. Highlights from the Oakland Ballet Company shows Luna Mexicana, Dancing Moons Festival and The Nutcracker round out the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s super exciting,” Copeland says of the long-awaited Oakland premiere. “We hope that we did the community justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Flower,’ starring Misty Copeland, premieres at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. The film premiere is accompanied by live performances by Oakland Ballet and others. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandballet.org/flower/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13935225/ballerina-misty-copeland-to-premiere-flower-in-oakland","authors":["11296"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_966","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_3245","arts_10278","arts_1355","arts_7321","arts_19306","arts_6387","arts_1143","arts_924","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13935228","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13928870":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13928870","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13928870","score":null,"sort":[1683659798000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"banko-browns-black-trans-life-mattered","title":"Banko Brown’s Black Trans Life Mattered","publishDate":1683659798,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Banko Brown’s Black Trans Life Mattered | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco has long positioned itself as a progressive foil for the rest of the country, especially in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. And while red states scramble to pass increasingly hateful anti-trans laws, California has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">sanctuary state for trans youth healthcare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ culture and history is rich and deep here. We have San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a>, the first of its kind in the world, tons of trans-inclusive nightlife spaces and a number of beloved, influential queer and trans folks in politics and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undercutting all of that is a sheer disregard — and sometimes utter disdain — for this city’s poorest residents, a disproportionate number of whom are LGBTQ+. If San Francisco wants to live up to its progressive ideals, Banko Brown’s life must be treated like it actually mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banko Brown. \u003ccite>(GoFundMe/Illustration by Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown was a 24-year-old trans man shot and killed by a downtown Walgreens security guard, Michael Earle-Wayne Anthony, on April 27 on Market Street. San Francisco police have told reporters that Brown was suspected of shoplifting, and that he was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony was arrested, jailed and released three days later, when District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to file charges, claiming that the security guard acted in self-defense. But given the fact that Brown had no weapons on him, and that a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">witness told Mission Local\u003c/a> that Anthony followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest, Jenkins’ decision has come under public scrutiny. On Monday, after pressure grew stronger, the DA asked the San Francisco Police Department to reopen the investigation. [aside postid='news_11948964']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s family and supporters are urging Jenkins to release the video of the shooting. (On May 9, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">passed a resolution asking Jenkins to release evidence\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s death is a gross illustration of the cruelty permeating San Francisco, a supposedly inclusive beacon. Brown was said to be homeless or housing insecure for the past 10 years, since he was 14 years old. This is a sadly common predicament for LGBTQ+ youth, especially trans youth, whose homelessness rates hover at close to 40%, often because of family rejection, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">2021 national survey from the Trevor Project\u003c/a>. According to Mayor London Breed’s office, trans and gender-nonconforming people are \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-announces-housing-subsidies-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming\">18 times more likely to experience homelessness\u003c/a> than the rest of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928894\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk past a memorial for Banko Brown outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sleeping on the street, as Brown — himself an advocate for trans rights at the \u003ca href=\"https://youngwomenfree.org/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw3ueiBhBmEiwA4BhspFyWOPlBO4kg2BS_6QPxZkEfYbJWTv-dijgkNYWCb9kWJb6kZ0DrVhoCpZwQAvD_BwE\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> — was said to have done recently, puts individuals in grave danger of violence. And being in moment-to-moment survival mode makes it incredibly challenging to access the labyrinthian bureaucracy of social services, let alone earn enough income to rent a room in San Francisco or the greater Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite enormous structural problems — primarily the astronomical gap between the average rent and minimum wage — that make it difficult for poor San Franciscans to hold on to their housing, there’s a pervasively condescending attitude towards homelessness among the public. Many otherwise thoughtful people view this visible suffering as an inconvenience to the housed, rather than a human rights violation we step over and shun everyday. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wealth inequality and homelessness rates continue to grow, it’s inevitable that more people will steal for survival. And as the privileged among us continue to fixate on property crime and ignore root causes, more corporations like Walgreens will employ armed security guards to protect their property. (On the topic of of stealing, Walgreens \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/want-to-be-a-criminal-in-america-stealing-billions-is-your-best-bet-to-go-scot-free\">recently paid $4.5 million\u003c/a> in a wage settlement with 2,650 California employees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupled with the news that, in New York during the same week, a homeless cis Black man, Jordan Neely, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/jordan-neely-killed.html\">killed by a vigilante for making a disturbance on a train\u003c/a>, it’s easy to imagine a future with more Banko Browns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster with a photo of Banko Brown says, ‘Gone But Never Forgotten’ on a fence outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although activist movements have made gains towards police accountability over the past decade, the role of private security in violent oppression has largely gone unaddressed. Brown’s death calls to mind the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920198/zumbi-zion-i-improper-restraint-at-hospital\">ongoing fight for justice for beloved Oakland hip-hop artist Zumbi\u003c/a>, who died after Alta Bates hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards piled on top of him while he was in treatment for a mental health crisis. His family’s lawyer compared his manner of death to that of George Floyd, and while the coroner ruled his death a homicide, former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley initially declined to file charges. Like Jenkins, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920004/zumbi-homicide-investigation-criminal-charges\">reopened the investigation\u003c/a>, which is still ongoing, after a massive public outcry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cases illustrate the difficulty of holding private security guards accountable for violence. Unlike police, their conduct is not public record, making it possible for the powerful, multinational corporations that employ them to make allegations disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many San Franciscans say they care about LGBTQ+ rights and racial justice, and Brown’s death shows that these issues run so much deeper than representation in entertainment and electoral politics. It means creating a city where all of us can live in dignity. Mayor Breed \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-plan-end-trans-homelessness-2027\">vowed to end trans homelessness by 2027\u003c/a>. Right now, we’re far from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of Banko Brown’s supporters said during public comment at the May 2 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, “The shit that’s being put on is a front. San Francisco is a front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Banko Brown’s family is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-and-support-for-banko-brown\">seeking support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/young_women_free/\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> for calls to action. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to include the result of the Board of Supervisors’ May 9 vote. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"His death underscores San Francisco's extreme inequality — and the violence used to enforce it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005524,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1056},"headData":{"title":"Banko Brown’s Black Trans Life Mattered | KQED","description":"His death underscores San Francisco's extreme inequality — and the violence used to enforce it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Banko Brown’s Black Trans Life Mattered","datePublished":"2023-05-09T19:16:38.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:38:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13928870/banko-browns-black-trans-life-mattered","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco has long positioned itself as a progressive foil for the rest of the country, especially in the realm of LGBTQ+ rights. And while red states scramble to pass increasingly hateful anti-trans laws, California has become a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929233/california-becomes-first-sanctuary-state-for-transgender-youth-seeking-medical-care\">sanctuary state for trans youth healthcare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ+ culture and history is rich and deep here. We have San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">Transgender Cultural District\u003c/a>, the first of its kind in the world, tons of trans-inclusive nightlife spaces and a number of beloved, influential queer and trans folks in politics and the arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undercutting all of that is a sheer disregard — and sometimes utter disdain — for this city’s poorest residents, a disproportionate number of whom are LGBTQ+. If San Francisco wants to live up to its progressive ideals, Banko Brown’s life must be treated like it actually mattered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/banko.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banko Brown. \u003ccite>(GoFundMe/Illustration by Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown was a 24-year-old trans man shot and killed by a downtown Walgreens security guard, Michael Earle-Wayne Anthony, on April 27 on Market Street. San Francisco police have told reporters that Brown was suspected of shoplifting, and that he was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony was arrested, jailed and released three days later, when District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to file charges, claiming that the security guard acted in self-defense. But given the fact that Brown had no weapons on him, and that a \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/walgreens-banko-brown-michael-earl-wayne-anthony-video/\">witness told Mission Local\u003c/a> that Anthony followed Brown outside and shot him in the chest, Jenkins’ decision has come under public scrutiny. On Monday, after pressure grew stronger, the DA asked the San Francisco Police Department to reopen the investigation. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11948964","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s family and supporters are urging Jenkins to release the video of the shooting. (On May 9, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">passed a resolution asking Jenkins to release evidence\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s death is a gross illustration of the cruelty permeating San Francisco, a supposedly inclusive beacon. Brown was said to be homeless or housing insecure for the past 10 years, since he was 14 years old. This is a sadly common predicament for LGBTQ+ youth, especially trans youth, whose homelessness rates hover at close to 40%, often because of family rejection, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trevor-Project-Homelessness-Report.pdf\">2021 national survey from the Trevor Project\u003c/a>. According to Mayor London Breed’s office, trans and gender-nonconforming people are \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/mayor-london-breed-announces-housing-subsidies-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming\">18 times more likely to experience homelessness\u003c/a> than the rest of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928894\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/009_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk past a memorial for Banko Brown outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sleeping on the street, as Brown — himself an advocate for trans rights at the \u003ca href=\"https://youngwomenfree.org/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw3ueiBhBmEiwA4BhspFyWOPlBO4kg2BS_6QPxZkEfYbJWTv-dijgkNYWCb9kWJb6kZ0DrVhoCpZwQAvD_BwE\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> — was said to have done recently, puts individuals in grave danger of violence. And being in moment-to-moment survival mode makes it incredibly challenging to access the labyrinthian bureaucracy of social services, let alone earn enough income to rent a room in San Francisco or the greater Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite enormous structural problems — primarily the astronomical gap between the average rent and minimum wage — that make it difficult for poor San Franciscans to hold on to their housing, there’s a pervasively condescending attitude towards homelessness among the public. Many otherwise thoughtful people view this visible suffering as an inconvenience to the housed, rather than a human rights violation we step over and shun everyday. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As wealth inequality and homelessness rates continue to grow, it’s inevitable that more people will steal for survival. And as the privileged among us continue to fixate on property crime and ignore root causes, more corporations like Walgreens will employ armed security guards to protect their property. (On the topic of of stealing, Walgreens \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/want-to-be-a-criminal-in-america-stealing-billions-is-your-best-bet-to-go-scot-free\">recently paid $4.5 million\u003c/a> in a wage settlement with 2,650 California employees.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coupled with the news that, in New York during the same week, a homeless cis Black man, Jordan Neely, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/jordan-neely-killed.html\">killed by a vigilante for making a disturbance on a train\u003c/a>, it’s easy to imagine a future with more Banko Browns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13928897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13928897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/001_KQED_WalgreensBankoBrown_05092023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster with a photo of Banko Brown says, ‘Gone But Never Forgotten’ on a fence outside of a Walgreens in San Francisco on May 9, 2023, where he was shot to death by a store security guard on April 27. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although activist movements have made gains towards police accountability over the past decade, the role of private security in violent oppression has largely gone unaddressed. Brown’s death calls to mind the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920198/zumbi-zion-i-improper-restraint-at-hospital\">ongoing fight for justice for beloved Oakland hip-hop artist Zumbi\u003c/a>, who died after Alta Bates hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards piled on top of him while he was in treatment for a mental health crisis. His family’s lawyer compared his manner of death to that of George Floyd, and while the coroner ruled his death a homicide, former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley initially declined to file charges. Like Jenkins, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920004/zumbi-homicide-investigation-criminal-charges\">reopened the investigation\u003c/a>, which is still ongoing, after a massive public outcry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cases illustrate the difficulty of holding private security guards accountable for violence. Unlike police, their conduct is not public record, making it possible for the powerful, multinational corporations that employ them to make allegations disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many San Franciscans say they care about LGBTQ+ rights and racial justice, and Brown’s death shows that these issues run so much deeper than representation in entertainment and electoral politics. It means creating a city where all of us can live in dignity. Mayor Breed \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-plan-end-trans-homelessness-2027\">vowed to end trans homelessness by 2027\u003c/a>. Right now, we’re far from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of Banko Brown’s supporters said during public comment at the May 2 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, “The shit that’s being put on is a front. San Francisco is a front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Banko Brown’s family is \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-and-support-for-banko-brown\">seeking support on GoFundMe\u003c/a>. Follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/young_women_free/\">Young Women’s Freedom Center\u003c/a> for calls to action. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated to include the result of the Board of Supervisors’ May 9 vote. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13928870/banko-browns-black-trans-life-mattered","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1355","arts_3226","arts_4730"],"featImg":"arts_13928893","label":"source_arts_13928870"},"arts_13916965":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13916965","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13916965","score":null,"sort":[1659544475000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"farming-hope-food-justice-non-profit-coffee-pop-up-guest-chef-mannys-sf","title":"Farming Hope Believes Every San Franciscan Should Have Access to an Elevated Dining Experience","publishDate":1659544475,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Farming Hope Believes Every San Franciscan Should Have Access to an Elevated Dining Experience | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the age of social media, the food industry can sometimes feel like a popularity contest. Who delivers the most Instagrammable dishes? What exotic ingredients can be touted? Where can the most outrageous decor and cocktail menus be found? And I agree, food should be fun. There isn’t any shame in mindfully enjoying the Bay Area’s abundance of flavors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But food is also a baseline necessity, and accessibility to healthy, joyful food shouldn’t be an exclusive thing—but often it is. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As one of the nation’s leading per-capita regions for homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tippingpoint.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Taking-Count-2021-A-Study-on-Poverty-in-the-Bay-Area.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">income inequality\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there is a warped sense of food in San Francisco. I’ve seen people eat out of trash cans in front of high-end restaurants and walked past people begging for meals while others take home leftovers provided by their generous employers. Though the experience of straddling those two extremes isn’t unique to the Bay Area, it’s more sharply edged around here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This complex issue goes beyond any individual’s actions, of course, and the simple truth is this: All folks—regardless of age, background or life choices—deserve the benefits of our region’s wonderful culinary experiences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://farminghope.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farming Hope\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was established by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dschool.stanford.edu/classes/feed-the-change-redesigning-food-systems\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stanford FEED Design School Incubator\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> graduates Kevin Madrigal and Jamie Stark in 2016, this kind of equity in the food ecosystem is the tenet they chose to build upon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men stand beside each other as founders of Farming Hope\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-founders of Farming Hope Jamie Stark (left) and Kevin Madrigal pose for a portrait at Reffetorio. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a “garden-to-table” job training nonprofit, Farming Hope provides paid work opportunities to apprentices who might otherwise struggle to find stable, supportive employment in the food industry. Since it was founded in 2016, the organization has established various locations in San Francisco where it works with marginalized community members.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on three six-week training cycles at rotating venues—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://welcometomannys.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manny’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the Mission, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.refettoriosanfrancisco.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Refettorio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Civic Center and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://farminghope.org/garden\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a community garden\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Western Addition—the program passes down diverse skills, experiences and, most importantly, the love and knowledge of good, sustainable food to houseless, transitioning and formerly incarcerated individuals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our model was thinking about a modern soup kitchen,” says co-founder Madrigal, who currently serves as an advisor for Farming Hope. “It’s about actually being in community with each other, not just waiting to shove food down people’s throats then asking them to leave.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the span of six years, Farming Hope has been working to increase its services and adapt to the changing needs of those they serve. It’s something they’ve been able to sustain thanks to their tireless commitment to building community partnerships while providing regular event programming. An example of that is their weekly “in-house dinner.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It provides families a space to connect and share resources,” says Andie Sobrepeña, the program’s operations director. “We have food-insecure families who are invited. There is an area for kids, for parents, and we have volunteers and staff helping out. We do a three-course plated dinner and have volunteers serving the families restaurant style. It’s a really beautiful space. It’s less of a transactional experience of giving food and leaving. It’s a safe space intentionally built for families with a common ground to connect on. It’s meant to be a holistic experience, to break down barriers of who has access to nice dining experiences. We should all be comfortable in those spaces.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A San Francisco native who grew up working for her family’s independently owned business, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foundationcafesf.com/#main\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foundation Cafe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Sobrepeña is deeply committed to the nonprofit’s mission. Along with Kerry Rodgers, Sobrepeña is set to begin her tenure as Farming Hope’s co-executive director this August by launching a number of new programs to help apprentices navigate a COVID-impacted food industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Andie Sobrepeña, on Farming Hope’s ‘in-house dinners’\"]“It’s meant to be a holistic experience, to break down barriers of who has access to nice dining experiences. We should all be comfortable in those spaces.”[/pullquote]One of those new initiatives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CgdGCCgp6Hd/\">Feel Good Coffee\u003c/a>, a coffee pop-up at Manny’s on Thursdays and Fridays—a program Sobrepeña says will allow apprentices to accumulate more hours by adding a morning shift that previously didn’t exist. It’ll also give them a chance to learn about pastry making and coffee culture, including specialty latte preparation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farming Hope is also rolling out a new guest chef dinner program, which will feature influential chefs working directly with apprentices to serve food insecure families and the general public. The first dinner was in June, featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goodgoodcultureclub/?hl=en\">Good Good Culture Club\u003c/a> chefs Brett Shaw and Kevin Keovanpheng and general manager Aimee Arcilla. The three restaurant industry veterans volunteered their time, collaborating with Farming Hope apprentices to create a menu that included halibut sashimi, green curry beef and calamansi chiffon cake. Former \u003cem>Top Chef\u003c/em> contestant \u003ca href=\"https://funraise.org/give/Farming-Hope/72c4f0be-8354-4138-bfb5-7a675bf10571/\">Tu David Phu is slated to be the next guest on August 8\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13903133,arts_13907528,arts_13904861']Working with a panoply of eclectic chefs exposes apprentices to a wide set of beliefs and viewpoints in the kitchen, apart from Farming Hope’s own lessons.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The cool thing is that not everyone comes into our program wanting to be a chef, but no one regrets learning how to cook better,” Sobrepeña says. “It gives tools to learn how to eat healthier and support their personal values. There’s value in the garden-to-table process and understanding food systems, sustainability and cooking philosophies from different chefs. That all gets carried forward.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, Farming Hope is in the process of formalizing an externship with Good Good Culture Club, where trainees can continue learning about service and cooking techniques in a real-world restaurant setting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916971\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"corn is being roasted on a stovetop by an apprentice in the kitchen of Reffetorio\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Burgos roasts corn at Reffetorio. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a reminder that the local food industry can provide much more than just a night out or good eats—it’s an active network of support and sustenance. Farming Hope embodies that by providing a livelihood and pathway forward for those who never thought they’d be creating a plate of crying tiger shrimp with coconut-makrut cream and crispy butter beans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Food is such a connector and a baseline need for everyone that it breaks down barriers in ways that not every job training program can,” says Sobrepeña, “It helps that our team enters this with open eyes and hearts; we’re all ready for the challenges of this work.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can visit Farming Hope at one of their two San Francisco locations: Manny’s (3092 16th St.) or Refettorio (149 Fell St.). \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/farminghope/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check their Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for additional information on upcoming guest chefs and more.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 'garden-to-table' nonprofit fights for food justice with its new coffee pop-up and guest chef program.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006540,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1219},"headData":{"title":"Farming Hope Believes Every San Franciscan Should Have Access to an Elevated Dining Experience | KQED","description":"The 'garden-to-table' nonprofit fights for food justice with its new coffee pop-up and guest chef program.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Farming Hope Believes Every San Franciscan Should Have Access to an Elevated Dining Experience","datePublished":"2022-08-03T16:34:35.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:55:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13916965/farming-hope-food-justice-non-profit-coffee-pop-up-guest-chef-mannys-sf","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the age of social media, the food industry can sometimes feel like a popularity contest. Who delivers the most Instagrammable dishes? What exotic ingredients can be touted? Where can the most outrageous decor and cocktail menus be found? And I agree, food should be fun. There isn’t any shame in mindfully enjoying the Bay Area’s abundance of flavors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But food is also a baseline necessity, and accessibility to healthy, joyful food shouldn’t be an exclusive thing—but often it is. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As one of the nation’s leading per-capita regions for homelessness\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://tippingpoint.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Taking-Count-2021-A-Study-on-Poverty-in-the-Bay-Area.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">income inequality\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there is a warped sense of food in San Francisco. I’ve seen people eat out of trash cans in front of high-end restaurants and walked past people begging for meals while others take home leftovers provided by their generous employers. Though the experience of straddling those two extremes isn’t unique to the Bay Area, it’s more sharply edged around here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This complex issue goes beyond any individual’s actions, of course, and the simple truth is this: All folks—regardless of age, background or life choices—deserve the benefits of our region’s wonderful culinary experiences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://farminghope.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farming Hope\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was established by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dschool.stanford.edu/classes/feed-the-change-redesigning-food-systems\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stanford FEED Design School Incubator\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> graduates Kevin Madrigal and Jamie Stark in 2016, this kind of equity in the food ecosystem is the tenet they chose to build upon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916972\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916972\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two men stand beside each other as founders of Farming Hope\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57457_003_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-founders of Farming Hope Jamie Stark (left) and Kevin Madrigal pose for a portrait at Reffetorio. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a “garden-to-table” job training nonprofit, Farming Hope provides paid work opportunities to apprentices who might otherwise struggle to find stable, supportive employment in the food industry. Since it was founded in 2016, the organization has established various locations in San Francisco where it works with marginalized community members.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on three six-week training cycles at rotating venues—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://welcometomannys.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manny’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the Mission, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.refettoriosanfrancisco.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Refettorio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Civic Center and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://farminghope.org/garden\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a community garden\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Western Addition—the program passes down diverse skills, experiences and, most importantly, the love and knowledge of good, sustainable food to houseless, transitioning and formerly incarcerated individuals.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our model was thinking about a modern soup kitchen,” says co-founder Madrigal, who currently serves as an advisor for Farming Hope. “It’s about actually being in community with each other, not just waiting to shove food down people’s throats then asking them to leave.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the span of six years, Farming Hope has been working to increase its services and adapt to the changing needs of those they serve. It’s something they’ve been able to sustain thanks to their tireless commitment to building community partnerships while providing regular event programming. An example of that is their weekly “in-house dinner.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It provides families a space to connect and share resources,” says Andie Sobrepeña, the program’s operations director. “We have food-insecure families who are invited. There is an area for kids, for parents, and we have volunteers and staff helping out. We do a three-course plated dinner and have volunteers serving the families restaurant style. It’s a really beautiful space. It’s less of a transactional experience of giving food and leaving. It’s a safe space intentionally built for families with a common ground to connect on. It’s meant to be a holistic experience, to break down barriers of who has access to nice dining experiences. We should all be comfortable in those spaces.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A San Francisco native who grew up working for her family’s independently owned business, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.foundationcafesf.com/#main\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Foundation Cafe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Sobrepeña is deeply committed to the nonprofit’s mission. Along with Kerry Rodgers, Sobrepeña is set to begin her tenure as Farming Hope’s co-executive director this August by launching a number of new programs to help apprentices navigate a COVID-impacted food industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“It’s meant to be a holistic experience, to break down barriers of who has access to nice dining experiences. We should all be comfortable in those spaces.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Andie Sobrepeña, on Farming Hope’s ‘in-house dinners’","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One of those new initiatives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CgdGCCgp6Hd/\">Feel Good Coffee\u003c/a>, a coffee pop-up at Manny’s on Thursdays and Fridays—a program Sobrepeña says will allow apprentices to accumulate more hours by adding a morning shift that previously didn’t exist. It’ll also give them a chance to learn about pastry making and coffee culture, including specialty latte preparation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Farming Hope is also rolling out a new guest chef dinner program, which will feature influential chefs working directly with apprentices to serve food insecure families and the general public. The first dinner was in June, featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goodgoodcultureclub/?hl=en\">Good Good Culture Club\u003c/a> chefs Brett Shaw and Kevin Keovanpheng and general manager Aimee Arcilla. The three restaurant industry veterans volunteered their time, collaborating with Farming Hope apprentices to create a menu that included halibut sashimi, green curry beef and calamansi chiffon cake. Former \u003cem>Top Chef\u003c/em> contestant \u003ca href=\"https://funraise.org/give/Farming-Hope/72c4f0be-8354-4138-bfb5-7a675bf10571/\">Tu David Phu is slated to be the next guest on August 8\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13903133,arts_13907528,arts_13904861","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Working with a panoply of eclectic chefs exposes apprentices to a wide set of beliefs and viewpoints in the kitchen, apart from Farming Hope’s own lessons.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The cool thing is that not everyone comes into our program wanting to be a chef, but no one regrets learning how to cook better,” Sobrepeña says. “It gives tools to learn how to eat healthier and support their personal values. There’s value in the garden-to-table process and understanding food systems, sustainability and cooking philosophies from different chefs. That all gets carried forward.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, Farming Hope is in the process of formalizing an externship with Good Good Culture Club, where trainees can continue learning about service and cooking techniques in a real-world restaurant setting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13916971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13916971\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"corn is being roasted on a stovetop by an apprentice in the kitchen of Reffetorio\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/RS57462_006_KQEDArts_FarmingHope_07272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Burgos roasts corn at Reffetorio. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a reminder that the local food industry can provide much more than just a night out or good eats—it’s an active network of support and sustenance. Farming Hope embodies that by providing a livelihood and pathway forward for those who never thought they’d be creating a plate of crying tiger shrimp with coconut-makrut cream and crispy butter beans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Food is such a connector and a baseline need for everyone that it breaks down barriers in ways that not every job training program can,” says Sobrepeña, “It helps that our team enters this with open eyes and hearts; we’re all ready for the challenges of this work.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can visit Farming Hope at one of their two San Francisco locations: Manny’s (3092 16th St.) or Refettorio (149 Fell St.). \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/farminghope/?hl=en\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check their Instagram\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for additional information on upcoming guest chefs and more.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13916965/farming-hope-food-justice-non-profit-coffee-pop-up-guest-chef-mannys-sf","authors":["11748"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_12276"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_1297","arts_1355","arts_1526"],"featImg":"arts_13916970","label":"source_arts_13916965"},"arts_13909645":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13909645","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13909645","score":null,"sort":[1646430485000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-community-love","title":"Community Love: The Fuel For Fighting the Machine","publishDate":1646430485,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Community Love: The Fuel For Fighting the Machine | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>arlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mx.san_chez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurice André San-Chez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/craft_ed._x/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moses Omolade\u003c/a>, an educator and school administrator who in February held a hunger strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904278/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to protest Oakland Unified School District’s proposed school closures\u003c/a> in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods, returned to the location of their protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">They cleaned the site at Westlake Middle School, held a restorative justice circle and planted two avocado trees. They chose the non-messy fruit that yields healthy fat after the duo asked themselves, “What’s a fruit that we both enjoy that can be really beneficial to the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omolade and San-Chez’s hunger strike lasted \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CaOMXP9Fcoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 days\u003c/a>, and left San-Chez hospitalized for a short period and Omolade requiring medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We initially went out on a hunger strike, and there was a deep, deep, \u003cem>deep\u003c/em> commitment to death,” Omolade tells me during a phone call. “That shit was, like, really wild, to look at one another in the face—and to look at ourselves individually—and be like: ‘I’m willing to die.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that perspective shifted over time, and for that he’s grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits his changed perspective to community. The students and elders who visited them during the strike spoke words that resonated. “People were coming by,” Omolade says, “being like, ‘Hold up, what ya’ll are doing here is actually important for the longevity of this fight. So, if you can find it within yourselves, take a step back from a commitment to death—because these folks will allow you to die.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"André San-Chez, Moses Omolade and community members pose for a photo after planting avocado trees in front of West Lake Middle school in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">André San-Chez, Moses Omolade and community members pose for a photo after planting avocado trees in front of West Lake Middle school in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Via Moses Omolade.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with San-Chez, Omolade is now recharging and strategizing. The fight is much larger, he says, than the closure of a few schools. It’s about systems of racism, structural oppression, and the privatization of schools and public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re currently gathering signatures to recall the school board seats of District 1 and District 7, held respectively by Benjamin “Sam” Davis and Clifford Thompson. And on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CaTM30GJJqY/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturday, March 5\u003c/a>, they’ll participate in a protest and march against the proposed East Oakland school closures—gathering at 1390 66th Ave. (the site of Coliseum Prep Academy) at 10am, marching at 11am, and arriving at International Community School with music and performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much for rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, the school board \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/09/oakland-school-board-votes-to-close-seven-schools-over-the-next-two-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plans to close fewer schools\u003c/a> than initially suggested, but still closing seven schools. Despite that, I’m intrigued by San-chez and Omolade’s efforts. In effect, they were laying down in front of the machine and willing to die for their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It resonated with me. Finding the fuel to keep fighting is something I had been struggling with for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Artist, educator and friend Venus Morris stands by Lake Merritt at sunset while wearing a jacket with the logo of the Black Panther Party, made by MADOW FUTUR. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist, educator and friend Venus Morris stands by Lake Merritt at sunset while wearing a jacket with the logo of the Black Panther Party, made by MADOW FUTUR. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s February flew by, the Oakland school closures, war abroad, COVID’s sustained impact and a few interpersonal issues had been weighing on me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, I still took a bunch of photos, from the first day of Black History Month to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909853/black-joy-parade-2022-oakland-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Joy Parade\u003c/a> on its final Sunday. Fly shots. Birthday smiles and nature blossoming. Memories etched in the digital archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one image from February that sticks with me. I have no photo of it, but it paints a picture of my recent mind state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 2pm on Feb. 5, I sat at the light on West Grand Avenue and Northgate Avenue in Oakland. A middle-aged African American man sporting a bomber jacket with “Security” printed across the back and the word “fuck” written above it in Sharpie started to cross the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man halted after a few steps into the crosswalk and turned to square up with a white Tesla that, in its attempt to make a right turn, came too close for comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched as the driver, an older white woman, threw her arms up and urged the man to move across the street. The man stood his ground with words I couldn’t hear, but with a posture I definitely recognized: he was daring the driver to do something. The car swerved far enough around him so as to not hit him, but close enough for the man to pull off a textbook right-legged roundhouse kick to the driver-side door as the car sped past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mental snapshot has been inside my dome ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>He almost get run over by a machine 20 times his size, so he kicks it in protest. Only to see the machine turn and keep rollin’, while he’s left with an injured foot.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add race and class to that simple synopsis, and it’s a metaphorical breakdown of what I see damn near everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-800x373.jpg\" alt=\"A mural by the Bay Area Mural Program located on 22nd Street, between Broadway and Valley Street in Oakland. \" width=\"800\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-800x373.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-1020x476.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-160x75.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-768x358.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-2048x955.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-1920x895.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural by the Bay Area Mural Program located on 22nd Street, between Broadway and Valley Street, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The intersection where the punt, pass and kick-a-Tesla competition went down is just around the corner from one of the larger unsheltered encampments in Oakland. For a solid few blocks, tents are strewn down Dr. Martin Luther King Way; a lot of African American folks over there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many? Well, we don’t know. But we do know that in 2019 about three out four of the 4,000 unsheltered people in Oakland were Black, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point in Time Count data from that year\u003c/a>. The first survey of unhoused individuals \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/02/23/how-bad-is-it-for-first-time-in-3-years-bay-area-counts-homeless-residents/\">since the pandemic started\u003c/a> just got underway last month, so we’ll see the current numbers soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the data, the image is enough to make you want to punch one of the new luxury high-rises casting shadows over people living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the issue of finding basic housing for folks, there’s the problem of increased homicides in a number of major cities across the nation, including Oakland. Last week it was announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082564685/guns-leading-cause-of-premature-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">firearms\u003c/a> are now the leading cause of premature death in America, and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082564685/guns-leading-cause-of-premature-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">younger Black males are the group most affected by homicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A mural of the late Shock G (aka Humpty Hump) located at Frank Ogawa Plaza, painted by Kufue. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of the late Shock G (a.k.a. Humpty Hump) located at Frank Ogawa Plaza, painted by Kufue. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Add to that a few interpersonal issues of loneliness and detachment that often come during the winter months, plus news of international war and the potential for a third year of a pandemic, and you can see why being an arts writer and covering the latest rapper with a hot mixtape isn’t always inspiring work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quit my job like three times since Jan. 1. I’m tired of kicking the machine to keep it from running us over. It always swerves and drives away. \u003cem>The work ain’t working.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I quit. Well, mentally. I’m not officially part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1007914455/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the great resignation\u003c/a>, but similar circumstances. Call it burnout, fatigue, soul-searching or whatever you want, but man, I struggled just sending emails. Gravity got really heavy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker, poet and friend Nijla Mu'min poses for a photo in front of a mural that reads Oakland Dreams, by Trust Your Struggle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker, poet and friend Nijla Mu’min poses for a photo in front of a mural that reads Oakland Dreams, by Trust Your Struggle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>rying to kickstart my ambition the day of the great electric car-kick-and-connection, I was on assignment: taking over KQED Arts’ Instagram stories to give a glimpse into “a day in the life” of what it’s like for me running around town. I figured some inspiration might find me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I posted images of murals and matched them with music from local artists. A shared a quick meeting with a movie maker named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CZuxRowBvBh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nijla Mu’min\u003c/a>, who shared her message about her forthcoming film named after Mosswood. A few shots taken by Lake Merritt at sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for the evening’s main event: a retirement celebration for the former head of East Oakland Youth Development Center, Ms. Regina Jackson. I stood in the back of the room, underdressed and hiding behind my camera, as the decadent Rotunda building in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza swelled with elected officials and community members praising Ms. Regina’s 27 years of fighting against the machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Ms. Regina Jackson receives a standing ovation during her retirement party. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Regina Jackson receives a standing ovation during her retirement party. \u003ccite>(Via EOYDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen Ms. Regina’s work in Deep East Oakland and in the Far East. In 2014, I served as chaperone on a trip where she took a group of young African American men to China. I didn’t get a chance to give her a hug and some appreciation at her retirement celebration, but if I had, I couldn’t have thanked her enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I posted a beautiful dance performance by educator and artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queen_iminah/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Imïnah\u003c/a>, and I headed home. There were a bunch of photos left untaken that day, more than just the assault of the battery-charged car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While en route to Ms. Regina’s celebration, for example, I passed something else that lingered on my mind all month: Westlake Middle School, where Omolade and San-chez held their hunger strike. I saw their tents, and didn’t stop. But I followed their story all month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I finally I talked to Omolade earlier this week, the first thing I did was apologize for not covering their story earlier. At the end of our talk, I told him about the interaction at the intersection—the man kicking the Tesla. Omolade knew about tenacity. I asked him: how do you \u003cem>keep\u003c/em> fighting the system? I figured that someone who was willing to die for what they believe in might have some guidance for a struggling writer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His answer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-800x1004.png\" alt=\"Maurice André San-Chez and Moses Omolade receive medical attention from community members during their hunger strike. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-800x1004.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-160x201.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-768x964.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM.png 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice André San-Chez and Moses Omolade receive medical attention from community members during their hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Via Moses Omolade )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Love,” said Omolade. “Love was centered, big time. The community really centered love—and it is currently centered. It’s continuously the fire that we use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what might be wiser than trying to kick against a machine? Investing in organizing, strategizing and community—specifically community love. Note to self.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ever feel like kicking a Tesla?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007124,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1784},"headData":{"title":"Community Love: The Fuel For Fighting the Machine | KQED","description":"Ever feel like kicking a Tesla?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Community Love: The Fuel For Fighting the Machine","datePublished":"2022-03-04T21:48:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:05:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"community-love-the-fuel-for-fighting-the-machine","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13909645/oakland-community-love","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>arlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mx.san_chez/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurice André San-Chez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/craft_ed._x/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moses Omolade\u003c/a>, an educator and school administrator who in February held a hunger strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904278/teachers-and-families-rally-ahead-of-upcoming-vote-on-oakland-school-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to protest Oakland Unified School District’s proposed school closures\u003c/a> in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods, returned to the location of their protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">They cleaned the site at Westlake Middle School, held a restorative justice circle and planted two avocado trees. They chose the non-messy fruit that yields healthy fat after the duo asked themselves, “What’s a fruit that we both enjoy that can be really beneficial to the community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omolade and San-Chez’s hunger strike lasted \u003ca style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CaOMXP9Fcoe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 days\u003c/a>, and left San-Chez hospitalized for a short period and Omolade requiring medical treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We initially went out on a hunger strike, and there was a deep, deep, \u003cem>deep\u003c/em> commitment to death,” Omolade tells me during a phone call. “That shit was, like, really wild, to look at one another in the face—and to look at ourselves individually—and be like: ‘I’m willing to die.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that perspective shifted over time, and for that he’s grateful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He credits his changed perspective to community. The students and elders who visited them during the strike spoke words that resonated. “People were coming by,” Omolade says, “being like, ‘Hold up, what ya’ll are doing here is actually important for the longevity of this fight. So, if you can find it within yourselves, take a step back from a commitment to death—because these folks will allow you to die.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"André San-Chez, Moses Omolade and community members pose for a photo after planting avocado trees in front of West Lake Middle school in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_3159-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">André San-Chez, Moses Omolade and community members pose for a photo after planting avocado trees in front of West Lake Middle school in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Via Moses Omolade.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with San-Chez, Omolade is now recharging and strategizing. The fight is much larger, he says, than the closure of a few schools. It’s about systems of racism, structural oppression, and the privatization of schools and public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re currently gathering signatures to recall the school board seats of District 1 and District 7, held respectively by Benjamin “Sam” Davis and Clifford Thompson. And on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CaTM30GJJqY/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saturday, March 5\u003c/a>, they’ll participate in a protest and march against the proposed East Oakland school closures—gathering at 1390 66th Ave. (the site of Coliseum Prep Academy) at 10am, marching at 11am, and arriving at International Community School with music and performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much for rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, the school board \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/09/oakland-school-board-votes-to-close-seven-schools-over-the-next-two-years/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plans to close fewer schools\u003c/a> than initially suggested, but still closing seven schools. Despite that, I’m intrigued by San-chez and Omolade’s efforts. In effect, they were laying down in front of the machine and willing to die for their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It resonated with me. Finding the fuel to keep fighting is something I had been struggling with for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910127\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Artist, educator and friend Venus Morris stands by Lake Merritt at sunset while wearing a jacket with the logo of the Black Panther Party, made by MADOW FUTUR. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7498-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist, educator and friend Venus Morris stands by Lake Merritt at sunset while wearing a jacket with the logo of the Black Panther Party, made by MADOW FUTUR. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s February flew by, the Oakland school closures, war abroad, COVID’s sustained impact and a few interpersonal issues had been weighing on me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow, I still took a bunch of photos, from the first day of Black History Month to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13909853/black-joy-parade-2022-oakland-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Joy Parade\u003c/a> on its final Sunday. Fly shots. Birthday smiles and nature blossoming. Memories etched in the digital archives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one image from February that sticks with me. I have no photo of it, but it paints a picture of my recent mind state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 2pm on Feb. 5, I sat at the light on West Grand Avenue and Northgate Avenue in Oakland. A middle-aged African American man sporting a bomber jacket with “Security” printed across the back and the word “fuck” written above it in Sharpie started to cross the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man halted after a few steps into the crosswalk and turned to square up with a white Tesla that, in its attempt to make a right turn, came too close for comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched as the driver, an older white woman, threw her arms up and urged the man to move across the street. The man stood his ground with words I couldn’t hear, but with a posture I definitely recognized: he was daring the driver to do something. The car swerved far enough around him so as to not hit him, but close enough for the man to pull off a textbook right-legged roundhouse kick to the driver-side door as the car sped past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mental snapshot has been inside my dome ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>He almost get run over by a machine 20 times his size, so he kicks it in protest. Only to see the machine turn and keep rollin’, while he’s left with an injured foot.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add race and class to that simple synopsis, and it’s a metaphorical breakdown of what I see damn near everyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-800x373.jpg\" alt=\"A mural by the Bay Area Mural Program located on 22nd Street, between Broadway and Valley Street in Oakland. \" width=\"800\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-800x373.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-1020x476.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-160x75.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-768x358.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-1536x716.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-2048x955.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7455-1920x895.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural by the Bay Area Mural Program located on 22nd Street, between Broadway and Valley Street, in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The intersection where the punt, pass and kick-a-Tesla competition went down is just around the corner from one of the larger unsheltered encampments in Oakland. For a solid few blocks, tents are strewn down Dr. Martin Luther King Way; a lot of African American folks over there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many? Well, we don’t know. But we do know that in 2019 about three out four of the 4,000 unsheltered people in Oakland were Black, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/2019-Oakland-Point-In-Time-Count-2-page-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Point in Time Count data from that year\u003c/a>. The first survey of unhoused individuals \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/02/23/how-bad-is-it-for-first-time-in-3-years-bay-area-counts-homeless-residents/\">since the pandemic started\u003c/a> just got underway last month, so we’ll see the current numbers soon enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the data, the image is enough to make you want to punch one of the new luxury high-rises casting shadows over people living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the issue of finding basic housing for folks, there’s the problem of increased homicides in a number of major cities across the nation, including Oakland. Last week it was announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082564685/guns-leading-cause-of-premature-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">firearms\u003c/a> are now the leading cause of premature death in America, and that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082564685/guns-leading-cause-of-premature-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">younger Black males are the group most affected by homicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910129\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A mural of the late Shock G (aka Humpty Hump) located at Frank Ogawa Plaza, painted by Kufue. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/IMG_7510-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of the late Shock G (a.k.a. Humpty Hump) located at Frank Ogawa Plaza, painted by Kufue. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Add to that a few interpersonal issues of loneliness and detachment that often come during the winter months, plus news of international war and the potential for a third year of a pandemic, and you can see why being an arts writer and covering the latest rapper with a hot mixtape isn’t always inspiring work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I quit my job like three times since Jan. 1. I’m tired of kicking the machine to keep it from running us over. It always swerves and drives away. \u003cem>The work ain’t working.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I quit. Well, mentally. I’m not officially part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1007914455/as-the-pandemic-recedes-millions-of-workers-are-saying-i-quit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the great resignation\u003c/a>, but similar circumstances. Call it burnout, fatigue, soul-searching or whatever you want, but man, I struggled just sending emails. Gravity got really heavy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"Filmmaker, poet and friend Nijla Mu'min poses for a photo in front of a mural that reads Oakland Dreams, by Trust Your Struggle. \" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-800x537.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F-768x516.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/49A488F7-44C2-4DA1-A491-A9AD2EB4768F.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker, poet and friend Nijla Mu’min poses for a photo in front of a mural that reads Oakland Dreams, by Trust Your Struggle. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>rying to kickstart my ambition the day of the great electric car-kick-and-connection, I was on assignment: taking over KQED Arts’ Instagram stories to give a glimpse into “a day in the life” of what it’s like for me running around town. I figured some inspiration might find me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I posted images of murals and matched them with music from local artists. A shared a quick meeting with a movie maker named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CZuxRowBvBh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nijla Mu’min\u003c/a>, who shared her message about her forthcoming film named after Mosswood. A few shots taken by Lake Merritt at sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for the evening’s main event: a retirement celebration for the former head of East Oakland Youth Development Center, Ms. Regina Jackson. I stood in the back of the room, underdressed and hiding behind my camera, as the decadent Rotunda building in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza swelled with elected officials and community members praising Ms. Regina’s 27 years of fighting against the machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910137\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-800x532.jpeg\" alt=\"Ms. Regina Jackson receives a standing ovation during her retirement party. \" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-1020x678.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/JacksonRetirement_15266.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Regina Jackson receives a standing ovation during her retirement party. \u003ccite>(Via EOYDC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen Ms. Regina’s work in Deep East Oakland and in the Far East. In 2014, I served as chaperone on a trip where she took a group of young African American men to China. I didn’t get a chance to give her a hug and some appreciation at her retirement celebration, but if I had, I couldn’t have thanked her enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I posted a beautiful dance performance by educator and artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queen_iminah/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Imïnah\u003c/a>, and I headed home. There were a bunch of photos left untaken that day, more than just the assault of the battery-charged car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While en route to Ms. Regina’s celebration, for example, I passed something else that lingered on my mind all month: Westlake Middle School, where Omolade and San-chez held their hunger strike. I saw their tents, and didn’t stop. But I followed their story all month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I finally I talked to Omolade earlier this week, the first thing I did was apologize for not covering their story earlier. At the end of our talk, I told him about the interaction at the intersection—the man kicking the Tesla. Omolade knew about tenacity. I asked him: how do you \u003cem>keep\u003c/em> fighting the system? I figured that someone who was willing to die for what they believe in might have some guidance for a struggling writer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His answer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13910135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-800x1004.png\" alt=\"Maurice André San-Chez and Moses Omolade receive medical attention from community members during their hunger strike. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-800x1004.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-160x201.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM-768x964.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-10.01.31-AM.png 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice André San-Chez and Moses Omolade receive medical attention from community members during their hunger strike. \u003ccite>(Via Moses Omolade )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Love,” said Omolade. “Love was centered, big time. The community really centered love—and it is currently centered. It’s continuously the fire that we use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know what might be wiser than trying to kick against a machine? Investing in organizing, strategizing and community—specifically community love. Note to self.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13909645/oakland-community-love","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_11374","arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10278","arts_1355","arts_3931","arts_3851","arts_1143","arts_7292","arts_9159","arts_3901"],"featImg":"arts_13910051","label":"source_arts_13909645"},"arts_13906384":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13906384","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13906384","score":null,"sort":[1637782241000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"understanding-my-nephews-generation-or-trying-to","title":"Understanding My Nephew's Generation—Or Trying To","publishDate":1637782241,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Understanding My Nephew’s Generation—Or Trying To | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"A young man stacks rocks in a riverbed\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-768x577.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My nephew, Reggie Cole, stacking stones in a dry riverbed near Auburn, CA. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>fter I enter my debit card information into my nephew’s phone, confirming the purchase of a Sacramento-to-Oakland Greyhound ticket so he can attend the funeral of a friend who’d passed from fentanyl poisoning, I hand the phone back, asking if this was the first close friend he’s lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, he replies—another buddy of his died at the start of the pandemic. COVID-19 related. Damn. I offer my condolences, and really didn’t know what else to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 18 years old, my nephew Reggie is a struggling high school super-senior who has dreams of being a mechanic—and even bigger dreams of racing the Le Mans in France. But right now, he’s staying on my couch, trying to figure out life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I place myself in his shoes: At 18, I was working multiple jobs and was headed to college. But a number of my close friends who weren’t going to college were dying of gunshots, losing their minds while popping pills, and/or being hit with charges that would start them on a path of living in and out of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Reggie at the SFMoMA, posing in front of a sculpture of stacked fake human brains. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reggie at SFMOMA, posing in front of a sculpture of stacked fake human brains. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can help my nephew understand gun violence and mass incarceration. But I don’t know what it’s like to deal with deaths from fentanyl and COVID. I don’t know what it’s like to be 18 right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after our convo we grab breakfast, I pass him a few bucks, and drop him at the Greyhound. Then I sit down for work, opening my phone to read an Associated Press story about overdoses reaching a record high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew’s friend is one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/overdodse-deaths-fentanayl-health-f34b022d75a1eb9776e27903ab40670f\">the estimated 100,000\u003c/a> people who’ve died of an overdose in the past 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y nephew represents the story of so many young people right now. Trying to figure it all out from a couch, a cot, a passenger seat in a car or a park bench. And the worst part: the guidance of older folks, such as myself, doesn’t quite fit what they’re experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re dealing with a school system that was dysfunctional pre-pandemic, and was all but obliterated when learning became “distanced.” They’re looking for a job in a market where employers are reportedly seeking workers, but it gets tricky if you don’t have a GED or a driver’s license; the latter is basically a necessity for joining the gig economy. And a number of development resources, like trade schools, are either shuttered or aren’t accepting new students. I know, I’ve called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the cost of housing has impacted Reggie’s generation, I’m happy he isn’t living in his car, like some of his peers. But by definition, he is functionally “homeless.” Despite floating from couch to couch, he wouldn’t be counted on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official government homeless assessment report\u003c/a>. And to think: African Americans already make up a disproportionate amount of homelessness in this country. I wonder how steep of an undercount that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the issue of increasing \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wealth inequality\u003c/a>. California, the land of economic disparities, is the place where the food that feeds the world is grown, but people who pick it are paid pennies. There are a multitude of millionaires and a heap of homelessness homies. What’s to become of an undereducated, informally skilled young Black man?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a student of this stuff—you know, this whole “Black man in America” thing. During my late teens and early 20s, I worked as a resident assistant in Howard University’s largest freshmen male dormitory, and as a teacher in Oakland’s African Male Achievement program. I’ve read and written more pieces on the topic than I can count. Plus, shit, I’m a Black man in America. I live this too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be Black, a man or even America to know that your late teens and early 20s are an extremely important period in life. It’s when a simple decision, or a set of them, can affect the rest of your life, and possibly even generations of your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So I’m stressing him. Not just about finding a job, gaining skills and finishing school. But starting with making handwritten to-do lists that include the simple things. Because the failures he’s faced in life have left his self-esteem depleted, and now it’s on him to build himself back up through seeing his own incremental successes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I encourage visiting the library and spending time in cafes, taking time to read books, because that mediative period is needed, even if it’s just a few minutes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I push him to exercise and eat well, because we’ve been miseducated about the importance of a healthy diet, and need to make a drastic change. Because, again, that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dismisses my sermon about how Red Hot burritos and Cup O’ Noodles aren’t sufficient, and knocks me off my fake-vegan hill by telling me that I cook like a woke white man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s comedic. Sincere. A lil’ hard headed and forgetful. But he has potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> regularly talk to groups of students who are Reggie’s age and younger. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve led virtual discussions with students at Rudsdale High School about the importance of their worldview and telling their stories through photos, and I’ve talked to students at Madison Park Academy Elementary School about the importance of simply showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past Friday, I was underdressed as I sat on a panel about fatherhood at Contra Costa College’s African American Male Symposium. We answered questions about the metamorphosis that occurred when we found out we were having children, and our favorite thing to do with our kids. My five year-old daughter sat in the front row, spacing out on her tablet. My nephew sat next to her, and was surprisingly paying attention. He even asked a question: “How do you not repeat the mistakes of your father?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was funny, because the whole time I’m up there talking to this room full of over 100 high schoolers, I just wanted to blurt out that we adults don’t have it together either. We don’t have \u003cem>the answers.\u003c/em> With crumbling infrastructure, failing public schools, an unjust criminal justice system and an ongoing housing crisis, I’m sorry, but this generation, like the generation before mine, has failed my nephew and his peers. I have absolutely no idea how they’re going to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he's taught me more about fishing than anyone. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he’s taught me more about fishing than anyone. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, lightweight frustrated that my advice wasn’t helping much, I had a timely learning experience in the DMV parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew is inside, taking a written driver’s license test—you know, so he can enter the gig economy and stop taking the bus back and forth to Oakland. Outside the building, another young Black man is in the parking lot, smoking a Black & Mild near the popped hood of a Honda. The young man calls me “OG” and asks for a jump. We try it, but my hybrid isn’t built for that shit, or maybe his car just isn’t receptive. Whatever the case, it doesn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He calls a tow truck as I look up the nearest auto parts store; we talk the whole time. Well, he talks. I listen. He tells me about his automobile blunders, what music he listens to on his battery-draining sound system, and how badly he has to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tow truck comes, the young man thanks me and gives me a fist bump through my driver’s side window before leaving. Not long after, my nephew comes back from his test. I ask him how it went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our ride home, we don’t listen to music—instead, I keep asking questions, and listen to him.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Like his peers, my 18-year-old nephew faces unprecedented challenges in the world. 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COVID-19 related. Damn. I offer my condolences, and really didn’t know what else to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 18 years old, my nephew Reggie is a struggling high school super-senior who has dreams of being a mechanic—and even bigger dreams of racing the Le Mans in France. But right now, he’s staying on my couch, trying to figure out life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I place myself in his shoes: At 18, I was working multiple jobs and was headed to college. But a number of my close friends who weren’t going to college were dying of gunshots, losing their minds while popping pills, and/or being hit with charges that would start them on a path of living in and out of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Reggie at the SFMoMA, posing in front of a sculpture of stacked fake human brains. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reggie at SFMOMA, posing in front of a sculpture of stacked fake human brains. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can help my nephew understand gun violence and mass incarceration. But I don’t know what it’s like to deal with deaths from fentanyl and COVID. I don’t know what it’s like to be 18 right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after our convo we grab breakfast, I pass him a few bucks, and drop him at the Greyhound. Then I sit down for work, opening my phone to read an Associated Press story about overdoses reaching a record high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew’s friend is one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/overdodse-deaths-fentanayl-health-f34b022d75a1eb9776e27903ab40670f\">the estimated 100,000\u003c/a> people who’ve died of an overdose in the past 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y nephew represents the story of so many young people right now. Trying to figure it all out from a couch, a cot, a passenger seat in a car or a park bench. And the worst part: the guidance of older folks, such as myself, doesn’t quite fit what they’re experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re dealing with a school system that was dysfunctional pre-pandemic, and was all but obliterated when learning became “distanced.” They’re looking for a job in a market where employers are reportedly seeking workers, but it gets tricky if you don’t have a GED or a driver’s license; the latter is basically a necessity for joining the gig economy. And a number of development resources, like trade schools, are either shuttered or aren’t accepting new students. I know, I’ve called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the cost of housing has impacted Reggie’s generation, I’m happy he isn’t living in his car, like some of his peers. But by definition, he is functionally “homeless.” Despite floating from couch to couch, he wouldn’t be counted on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official government homeless assessment report\u003c/a>. And to think: African Americans already make up a disproportionate amount of homelessness in this country. I wonder how steep of an undercount that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the issue of increasing \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wealth inequality\u003c/a>. California, the land of economic disparities, is the place where the food that feeds the world is grown, but people who pick it are paid pennies. There are a multitude of millionaires and a heap of homelessness homies. What’s to become of an undereducated, informally skilled young Black man?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a student of this stuff—you know, this whole “Black man in America” thing. During my late teens and early 20s, I worked as a resident assistant in Howard University’s largest freshmen male dormitory, and as a teacher in Oakland’s African Male Achievement program. I’ve read and written more pieces on the topic than I can count. Plus, shit, I’m a Black man in America. I live this too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be Black, a man or even America to know that your late teens and early 20s are an extremely important period in life. It’s when a simple decision, or a set of them, can affect the rest of your life, and possibly even generations of your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So I’m stressing him. Not just about finding a job, gaining skills and finishing school. But starting with making handwritten to-do lists that include the simple things. Because the failures he’s faced in life have left his self-esteem depleted, and now it’s on him to build himself back up through seeing his own incremental successes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I encourage visiting the library and spending time in cafes, taking time to read books, because that mediative period is needed, even if it’s just a few minutes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I push him to exercise and eat well, because we’ve been miseducated about the importance of a healthy diet, and need to make a drastic change. Because, again, that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dismisses my sermon about how Red Hot burritos and Cup O’ Noodles aren’t sufficient, and knocks me off my fake-vegan hill by telling me that I cook like a woke white man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s comedic. Sincere. A lil’ hard headed and forgetful. But he has potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> regularly talk to groups of students who are Reggie’s age and younger. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve led virtual discussions with students at Rudsdale High School about the importance of their worldview and telling their stories through photos, and I’ve talked to students at Madison Park Academy Elementary School about the importance of simply showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past Friday, I was underdressed as I sat on a panel about fatherhood at Contra Costa College’s African American Male Symposium. We answered questions about the metamorphosis that occurred when we found out we were having children, and our favorite thing to do with our kids. My five year-old daughter sat in the front row, spacing out on her tablet. My nephew sat next to her, and was surprisingly paying attention. He even asked a question: “How do you not repeat the mistakes of your father?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was funny, because the whole time I’m up there talking to this room full of over 100 high schoolers, I just wanted to blurt out that we adults don’t have it together either. We don’t have \u003cem>the answers.\u003c/em> With crumbling infrastructure, failing public schools, an unjust criminal justice system and an ongoing housing crisis, I’m sorry, but this generation, like the generation before mine, has failed my nephew and his peers. I have absolutely no idea how they’re going to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he's taught me more about fishing than anyone. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he’s taught me more about fishing than anyone. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, lightweight frustrated that my advice wasn’t helping much, I had a timely learning experience in the DMV parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew is inside, taking a written driver’s license test—you know, so he can enter the gig economy and stop taking the bus back and forth to Oakland. Outside the building, another young Black man is in the parking lot, smoking a Black & Mild near the popped hood of a Honda. The young man calls me “OG” and asks for a jump. We try it, but my hybrid isn’t built for that shit, or maybe his car just isn’t receptive. Whatever the case, it doesn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He calls a tow truck as I look up the nearest auto parts store; we talk the whole time. Well, he talks. I listen. He tells me about his automobile blunders, what music he listens to on his battery-draining sound system, and how badly he has to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tow truck comes, the young man thanks me and gives me a fist bump through my driver’s side window before leaving. Not long after, my nephew comes back from his test. I ask him how it went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our ride home, we don’t listen to music—instead, I keep asking questions, and listen to him.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13906384/understanding-my-nephews-generation-or-trying-to","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303"],"tags":["arts_11374","arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_3788","arts_10342","arts_12735","arts_1355","arts_4544","arts_16176","arts_1526"],"featImg":"arts_13906516","label":"source_arts_13906384"},"arts_13899625":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13899625","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13899625","score":null,"sort":[1625257578000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-unhoused-lgbtq-youth-in-san-francisco-a-spare-room-becomes-a-lifeline","title":"For Unhoused LGBTQ Youth in San Francisco, a Spare Room Becomes a Lifeline","publishDate":1625257578,"format":"standard","headTitle":"For Unhoused LGBTQ Youth in San Francisco, a Spare Room Becomes a Lifeline | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“E\u003c/span>very single day, Pendarvis, we get emails from young people, we get referrals, we get people that walk-in, all looking for housing,” Karessa Irvin, the Program Manager at the San Francisco LGBT Center stresses to me over the phone. “But unfortunately we’re not always able to meet their need because of the lack of available hosts right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Irvin is the head of the Center’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/host-homes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Host Homes program\u003c/a>, an initiative aimed at curbing homelessness by pairing people age 18-24 who don’t have stable housing and identify as LGBTQ with hosts who have vacant room in their houses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The program originally started in the UK over three decades ago, and is currently operating in cities around the United States, including Los Angeles, San Jose and Sacramento. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in San Francisco, where the federally funded program was implemented in 2019, the program takes on some unique circumstances, given the cost of living and price of housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, it’s been estimated that up to \u003ca href=\"https://lesley.edu/article/the-cost-of-coming-out-lgbt-youth-homelessness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">40% of unsheltered people under the age of 25\u003c/a> identify as LGBT, and in San Francisco that count is nearly 50%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Youth-PIT-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 report\u003c/a> from San Francisco’s Homeless Unique Youth Count and Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SF LGBT Center is one of about \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/transgender-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a dozen organizations\u003c/a> listed on the City’s website working on the issue. And while elected officials and community groups have taken action, everyday residents can get involved with Host Homes and have some agency in the situation as well. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Lynn Painter, one of the hosts in the Host Homes program, stands in front of her house in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynne Painter, one of the hosts in the Host Homes program, stands in front of her house in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I f\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ound out about the program through a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Would-you-take-in-a-homeless-person-San-14862291.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>,” Lynne Painter tells me, adding that she\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had also read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737198/overnight-parking-for-homeless-college-students-lawmakers-consider-it\">City College students sleeping in their cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It kind of broke my heart thinking about that,” says Painter, who recalled some of the “crazy places” she lived during college, including a soy bean farm in South Carolina. “I had been lucky finding things like that, and I just wanted to help someone else.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With no children or young people in her life, Painter opened up the doors of her two-bedroom condo to a young person who has since come and gone, and is now living stably in housing of their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The idea of the program isn’t to house them forever in our homes,” Painter says, matter-of-factly. “The idea of the program is to help them stabilize their situations.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even after they’re stable, they might come back, as Painter’s former resident did—to help Painter celebrate a birthday earlier this year. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have new friends that are young people, and they didn’t have to worry about safety. It all worked out great,” says Painter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899805\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Ron (left) and Erik (right) hold each other, sitting on a couch in their home while posing for a photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron (left) and Erik (right) hold each other, sitting on a couch in their home while posing for a photo. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“R\u003c/span>on and I, as a gay couple, had been thinking about starting a family,” Erik Green tells me during a chat a few weeks back. “And it’s a little more complicated for gay folks than it is for straight folks, or it can be, let’s say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So before taking that leap to adopt a child, Ron Frost and Erik Green thought it’d be wise to see how a family dynamic would play out in the short term—and, at the same time, utilize the extra space in their house and “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">help a LGBT youth get grounded and have secure housing while they look for something more permanent,” says Green. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were the first hosts in the program to officially have a young person placed in their residence, and it happened just one month prior to 2020’s COVID-19 related shelter-in-place mandate came down from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their new resident moved in and instantly crashed, sleeping for almost 18 hours, Green recalls. He posed the rhetorical question: What’s a better sign of feeling safe than falling into a deep sleep?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“L\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ater that week,” Frost says, “when they came out of the cave, we all sat down, we cooked together and had a meal.” The transition into being a functional household started with “figuring out who is who and what is what.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Erik Green (left) and Ron Frost share a moment on the couch. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erik Green (left) and Ron Frost share a moment on the couch. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were hurdles, like the young person having to gather their stuff from all around town, including a beloved guitar. There were a few days, during the unnerving start of the pandemic, where the young resident had to stay with a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, Frost tells me, “because our youth is not a U.S. citizen, they’re on an eduction visa, and because there was no in-person class, there was there really big question of will they be able to stay in this country or will they be deported?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Green, an educator at City College, connected the young person to the proper resources to get everything straightened out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the stay their young resident was supported with gift cards from the SF LGBT Center and check-ins from a case manager. Green and Frost received support for their utilities and were engaged in meetings as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the six-month period was up, the young person transitioned into a stable housing situation with a roommate who was immunocompromised, causing the young person to keep a distance from Green and Frost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“W\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">e had a final dinner on Zoom,” Green tells me, mentioning that they still stay in contact to this day. “T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hey keep saying, ‘When this is all over I’m going to have you over, I’m going to cook dinner for you, I’m going to show you my place.'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reflecting on their experience, Frost says, “It’s so easy, in San Francisco, to look out at all of the homeless population and feel a real sense of despair and helplessness.” But he says the program \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gave he and his partner a tangible way of helping one person, “and sometimes all you can do is help one other person.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green dispels any notion of a savior mentality. But it reminds him of the parable about two people seeing thousands of starfish washed ashore, and one person picking one up and throwing it back into its ocean home. “Why are you bothering? It’s not going to make any difference, there’s so many,” the other person says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green tells this story, before answering, “It’ll make a difference for \u003cem>that\u003c/em> one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899806\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Jay Young sitting on their skateboard on a park in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Young sits on their skateboard in a park in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hat one starfish is a young person like Jay Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked where they’d be without this program, Young tells me, “Probably back in a mental hospital.” And then they say, “Nah, for real, I don’t think I could’ve handled the pandemic nearly as well as I did.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young’s hosts were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77e7rVeYkUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam and Decima\u003c/a>, and their three children. After befriending the youngest one, Young says, the older kids eventually came around. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s a trip to think about,” says Young. “The whole year went by, and those were like my best friends.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says they spent time with Adam and Decima too, running errands, cooking or going to the park as a family. The experience overall gave Young a new perspective on what’s possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just felt so stressed at the time I moved in,” says Young. “Just feeling like, how am I ever going to be financially ok? In San Francisco, how am I going to find good roommates? Find good anything? And take care of myself without getting super overwhelmed? And it ended up happening.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young says they now live in a “cool queer house” in Oakland, and are better suited for change. “I’m not super overwhelmed the way I was before,” adds Young, who \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moved out the night of the oldest kid’s birthday dinner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They had a shared celebration; Karessa Irvin and Young’s mother were even in attendance. “The biggest thing for me,” says Young, “was for the kids to understand that it’s a ‘goodbye,’ but it’s not like ‘Jay is gone.’ It’s just going to be different.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karessa Irvin says more hosts are needed for Host Homes, and urges people who are interested in contributing to the effort to end homelessness to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/host-homes-information-session-tickets-146666931741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apply\u003c/a>. In doing the work of connecting resources, people and places, she tells me there’s a saying she often thinks about: “\u003cspan>Homelessness doesn’t start when people run out of money, it starts when people run out of relationships.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only the second full year of the pilot program at the SF LGBT Center, and only three people have so far completed the process. But the program, and the stories of those involved, show all of the work and resources that it takes to make a difference: government funding, a community center that’s actually ingrained in the community, and individuals stepping up to make a change. All of that energy just throw one starfish back into the ocean. But it makes a big difference for that one starfish.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Host Homes program connects LGBTQ youth living on the streets to hosts who want to help.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008100,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1657},"headData":{"title":"For Unhoused LGBTQ Youth in San Francisco, a Spare Room Becomes a Lifeline | KQED","description":"The Host Homes program connects LGBTQ youth living on the streets to hosts who want to help.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"For Unhoused LGBTQ Youth in San Francisco, a Spare Room Becomes a Lifeline","datePublished":"2021-07-02T20:26:18.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:21:40.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13899625/for-unhoused-lgbtq-youth-in-san-francisco-a-spare-room-becomes-a-lifeline","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“E\u003c/span>very single day, Pendarvis, we get emails from young people, we get referrals, we get people that walk-in, all looking for housing,” Karessa Irvin, the Program Manager at the San Francisco LGBT Center stresses to me over the phone. “But unfortunately we’re not always able to meet their need because of the lack of available hosts right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Irvin is the head of the Center’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcenter.org/host-homes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Host Homes program\u003c/a>, an initiative aimed at curbing homelessness by pairing people age 18-24 who don’t have stable housing and identify as LGBTQ with hosts who have vacant room in their houses.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The program originally started in the UK over three decades ago, and is currently operating in cities around the United States, including Los Angeles, San Jose and Sacramento. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in San Francisco, where the federally funded program was implemented in 2019, the program takes on some unique circumstances, given the cost of living and price of housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, it’s been estimated that up to \u003ca href=\"https://lesley.edu/article/the-cost-of-coming-out-lgbt-youth-homelessness\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">40% of unsheltered people under the age of 25\u003c/a> identify as LGBT, and in San Francisco that count is nearly 50%, according to \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Youth-PIT-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 report\u003c/a> from San Francisco’s Homeless Unique Youth Count and Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SF LGBT Center is one of about \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/transgender-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a dozen organizations\u003c/a> listed on the City’s website working on the issue. And while elected officials and community groups have taken action, everyday residents can get involved with Host Homes and have some agency in the situation as well. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Lynn Painter, one of the hosts in the Host Homes program, stands in front of her house in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Lynn1.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynne Painter, one of the hosts in the Host Homes program, stands in front of her house in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I f\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ound out about the program through a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Would-you-take-in-a-homeless-person-San-14862291.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>,” Lynne Painter tells me, adding that she\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> had also read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737198/overnight-parking-for-homeless-college-students-lawmakers-consider-it\">City College students sleeping in their cars\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It kind of broke my heart thinking about that,” says Painter, who recalled some of the “crazy places” she lived during college, including a soy bean farm in South Carolina. “I had been lucky finding things like that, and I just wanted to help someone else.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With no children or young people in her life, Painter opened up the doors of her two-bedroom condo to a young person who has since come and gone, and is now living stably in housing of their own.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The idea of the program isn’t to house them forever in our homes,” Painter says, matter-of-factly. “The idea of the program is to help them stabilize their situations.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even after they’re stable, they might come back, as Painter’s former resident did—to help Painter celebrate a birthday earlier this year. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have new friends that are young people, and they didn’t have to worry about safety. It all worked out great,” says Painter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899805\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Ron (left) and Erik (right) hold each other, sitting on a couch in their home while posing for a photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron (left) and Erik (right) hold each other, sitting on a couch in their home while posing for a photo. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“R\u003c/span>on and I, as a gay couple, had been thinking about starting a family,” Erik Green tells me during a chat a few weeks back. “And it’s a little more complicated for gay folks than it is for straight folks, or it can be, let’s say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So before taking that leap to adopt a child, Ron Frost and Erik Green thought it’d be wise to see how a family dynamic would play out in the short term—and, at the same time, utilize the extra space in their house and “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">help a LGBT youth get grounded and have secure housing while they look for something more permanent,” says Green. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were the first hosts in the program to officially have a young person placed in their residence, and it happened just one month prior to 2020’s COVID-19 related shelter-in-place mandate came down from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their new resident moved in and instantly crashed, sleeping for almost 18 hours, Green recalls. He posed the rhetorical question: What’s a better sign of feeling safe than falling into a deep sleep?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“L\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ater that week,” Frost says, “when they came out of the cave, we all sat down, we cooked together and had a meal.” The transition into being a functional household started with “figuring out who is who and what is what.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Erik Green (left) and Ron Frost share a moment on the couch. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Eric-and-Ron1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erik Green (left) and Ron Frost share a moment on the couch. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were hurdles, like the young person having to gather their stuff from all around town, including a beloved guitar. There were a few days, during the unnerving start of the pandemic, where the young resident had to stay with a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, Frost tells me, “because our youth is not a U.S. citizen, they’re on an eduction visa, and because there was no in-person class, there was there really big question of will they be able to stay in this country or will they be deported?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, Green, an educator at City College, connected the young person to the proper resources to get everything straightened out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the stay their young resident was supported with gift cards from the SF LGBT Center and check-ins from a case manager. Green and Frost received support for their utilities and were engaged in meetings as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the six-month period was up, the young person transitioned into a stable housing situation with a roommate who was immunocompromised, causing the young person to keep a distance from Green and Frost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“W\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">e had a final dinner on Zoom,” Green tells me, mentioning that they still stay in contact to this day. “T\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hey keep saying, ‘When this is all over I’m going to have you over, I’m going to cook dinner for you, I’m going to show you my place.'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reflecting on their experience, Frost says, “It’s so easy, in San Francisco, to look out at all of the homeless population and feel a real sense of despair and helplessness.” But he says the program \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gave he and his partner a tangible way of helping one person, “and sometimes all you can do is help one other person.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green dispels any notion of a savior mentality. But it reminds him of the parable about two people seeing thousands of starfish washed ashore, and one person picking one up and throwing it back into its ocean home. “Why are you bothering? It’s not going to make any difference, there’s so many,” the other person says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green tells this story, before answering, “It’ll make a difference for \u003cem>that\u003c/em> one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899806\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Jay Young sitting on their skateboard on a park in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Jay2-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Young sits on their skateboard in a park in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hat one starfish is a young person like Jay Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked where they’d be without this program, Young tells me, “Probably back in a mental hospital.” And then they say, “Nah, for real, I don’t think I could’ve handled the pandemic nearly as well as I did.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young’s hosts were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77e7rVeYkUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam and Decima\u003c/a>, and their three children. After befriending the youngest one, Young says, the older kids eventually came around. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s a trip to think about,” says Young. “The whole year went by, and those were like my best friends.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says they spent time with Adam and Decima too, running errands, cooking or going to the park as a family. The experience overall gave Young a new perspective on what’s possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I just felt so stressed at the time I moved in,” says Young. “Just feeling like, how am I ever going to be financially ok? In San Francisco, how am I going to find good roommates? Find good anything? And take care of myself without getting super overwhelmed? And it ended up happening.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young says they now live in a “cool queer house” in Oakland, and are better suited for change. “I’m not super overwhelmed the way I was before,” adds Young, who \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">moved out the night of the oldest kid’s birthday dinner. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They had a shared celebration; Karessa Irvin and Young’s mother were even in attendance. “The biggest thing for me,” says Young, “was for the kids to understand that it’s a ‘goodbye,’ but it’s not like ‘Jay is gone.’ It’s just going to be different.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karessa Irvin says more hosts are needed for Host Homes, and urges people who are interested in contributing to the effort to end homelessness to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/host-homes-information-session-tickets-146666931741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apply\u003c/a>. In doing the work of connecting resources, people and places, she tells me there’s a saying she often thinks about: “\u003cspan>Homelessness doesn’t start when people run out of money, it starts when people run out of relationships.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s only the second full year of the pilot program at the SF LGBT Center, and only three people have so far completed the process. But the program, and the stories of those involved, show all of the work and resources that it takes to make a difference: government funding, a community center that’s actually ingrained in the community, and individuals stepping up to make a change. All of that energy just throw one starfish back into the ocean. But it makes a big difference for that one starfish.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13899625/for-unhoused-lgbtq-youth-in-san-francisco-a-spare-room-becomes-a-lifeline","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_1398","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1355","arts_3226","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13899629","label":"arts"},"arts_13898345":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13898345","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13898345","score":null,"sort":[1624914435000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-1906-earthquake-survivor-who-fought-for-san-franciscos-homeless-population","title":"The 1906 Earthquake Survivor Who Fought For San Francisco’s Homeless Population","publishDate":1624914435,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The 1906 Earthquake Survivor Who Fought For San Francisco’s Homeless Population | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":8978,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On Nov. 3, 1906, San Francisco residents, still busy rebuilding the city after April’s earthquake and fire, were startled by a truly bizarre sight. It was a four-horse truck hauling a refugee “cottage” through the city streets, from Fillmore’s Jefferson Square Park all the way down to Ingleside. Hanging out of one of the structure’s windows was an agitated, gray-haired woman in her late forties clutching two placards. They read, “We demand a share of the Relief Fund,” and “We demand a distribution of food and supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defiant protester in the window was Mary Kelly, a cleaning woman by trade whose family had been residing in a camp in Jefferson Square since they lost their home and worldly belongings in the earthquake. After months of surviving in cold, leaky tents with her invalid husband William, Kelly had begun squatting in the cottage—a small uninsulated shack with no sanitary provisions—out of sheer desperation. Heads of the city’s Relief Corporation—the organization set up to distribute supplies and donations to refugees—ordered Kelly’s removal on the truck after a month of her refusing to move out or pay rent. As they hauled her away, she is said to have shouted, “I’ll stay with this house if they take it to the end of the Earth!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Mary-Kelly-Cottage-Protest-800x390.png\" alt=\"Mary Kelly, as seen in the 'San Francisco Call' newspaper on Nov. 4, 1906, after getting removed inside her temporary house, by city officials.\" width=\"800\" height=\"390\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Kelly, as seen in the ‘San Francisco Call’ newspaper on Nov. 4, 1906, after getting removed inside her temporary house, by city officials.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What was happening to Kelly was by no means standard practice for the Relief Corporation. It was an unusually harsh and public punishment doled out against an individual who had spent seven months loudly and persistently demanding dignity for those who lost their homes in the April 18 disaster. In that time, Kelly had transformed herself from a private, hard-working wife and mother into one of the most tenacious activists in the city. Her efforts made her a leader in her community, but a sharp thorn in the side of city officials and the Relief Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13895374']Once delivered to Ingleside, for three whole days, Kelly stayed inside her cottage, “firmly roped to the truck,” the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> noted. She later reported that she was subjected to daily harassment and verbal abuse from Relief Corporation employees that would “turn the crowd of thugs in a tenderloin saloon, let alone a respectable woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her third day on the truck, the Relief Corporation roughly dismantled the cottage with Kelly still inside. “There seemed about ten men with axes and crowbars and hatchets getting on the roof and ripping off the shingles,” Kelly later wrote in a pamphlet titled \u003cem>Shame of the Relief\u003c/em>. This despite the fact that Kelly was, according to the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em>, “worn and feeble” due to “a fast developing case of grip or pneumonia sapping her energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a perfect legal right to the cottage,” Kelly wrote in April 1908, “as it was built out of the money which had been sent here to San Francisco to rehabilitate the suffering and destitute refugees … The cottage was built on public ground, and it was not right to pay six dollars or any other sum per month for rent of these cottages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what exactly had Kelly done that spurred the Relief Corporation into taking such cruel and unusual action towards her? It started almost immediately after the earthquake and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-800x561.png\" alt=\"Earthquake refugees gather at Jefferson Square as smoke still billows from the 1906 fires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-800x561.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-1020x715.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-768x538.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-1536x1077.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-1920x1346.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM.png 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake refugees gather at Jefferson Square as smoke still billows from the 1906 fires. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp37.00042)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When city officials encouraged camp residents to leave the parks, she was one of the loudest objectors. The rents in San Francisco were inflated after the fire—they doubled in the unburned Western Addition, for example—and many locals had lost their places of work. The working poor simply couldn’t afford to move into new homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When city officials encouraged camp residents to leave the city for towns with cheaper rent, Kelly publicly spoke out about the financial impracticality of doing so. The money she would have to come up with for her own, and her family’s, daily commutes to San Francisco for work, were entirely unfeasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-800x567.png\" alt=\"The Jefferson Square camp, viewed north from Turk St.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-800x567.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-1020x723.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-160x113.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-768x544.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-1536x1089.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-1920x1361.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM.png 1984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jefferson Square camp, viewed north from Turk St. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp59.00056)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, Kelly was leading marches and making speeches on behalf of her community—in her words, a “steady, honest, hard-working class of people who never asked for charity from anyone and always paid their own way.” She demanded cash grants be distributed directly to the refugees. She publicly criticized camp administrators, city officials, and the Relief Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly didn’t just go after the slow-moving bureaucracy that prevented the refugees from receiving their due, she went after the men at the head of the organizations. At one point, she accused “nearly every man that held any prominent position at the Relief Headquarters” of using relief money to buy expensive cars for their own personal use. At another, she led and made speeches in front of 3,000 protestors outside a banquet attended by city officials. “Let the whole world know,” their banners read, “that while we are starving, they are feasting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly had no qualms about calling out these individuals and publicly portraying them as sniveling, self-serving cowards. Of the attendees at that particular banquet, Kelly later wrote, “Fearing that we might force an entrance and partake of their fine menu, they very quietly sneaked out of the back entrance of the hotel and rode away in their autos, not to again return to finish their banquet until after the poor, suffering refugees had returned to their cold and dreary tents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Mary’s delivery sometimes erred on the side of the dramatic, her keen sense of injustice was not without cause. Funds and provisions to assist earthquake survivors were woefully mishandled at times, and in ways that served to reinforce the pre-earthquake class structure. Financial assistance from the Relief Corporation, for example, was distributed on a tier system that benefited property owners, business owners and the well-connected first. The poorest, most hungry and least able to find work were often left to languish the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-800x504.png\" alt=\"Officers distributing flour near Moscone Playground (then Lobos Square).\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-800x504.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-1020x642.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-768x484.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-1536x967.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-1920x1209.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM.png 1988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers distributing flour near Moscone Playground (then Lobos Square). \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp15.1682)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One particularly egregious example of this occurred after the Relief Corporation attempted to sell some of the flour sent from Minneapolis to distribute to hungry refugees. When donors heard of the corporation’s intent to sell, they objected. The corporation responded by dumping multiple barrels of the flour into the Bay. This kind of spiteful mismanagement is what prompted Kelly, along with about a hundred other women, to storm the city’s main relief warehouse on July 6, 1906 and walk out with 2,000 pounds of flour. “The women declared that the flour had been sent here for them,” the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported, “and they were going to take it.” The incident was characterized by the local press as a “riot” by “irate” women who “would not listen to reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894842']The war between Kelly and city officials was granted a brief reprieve only after tragedy struck. In January 1907, two of Kelly’s daughters were tragically murdered by their sister’s husband. Joseph Rabley targeted the entire Kelly family after his wife, Mary Jr. left him after suffering beatings at home. After Rabley gunned down Elizabeth Kelly, 16, and Martha Krueger, 28, near the intersection of McAllister and Octavia, he turned the gun on himself, “tearing off the top of his skull,” the \u003ca href=\"https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1907-01-07/ed-1/seq-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two months after they had paraded her through the streets and destroyed the cottage she claimed, the Relief Corporation finally granted Kelly and her husband a similar shelter at Dolores Park. The respite, born out of sympathy for the loss of Kelly’s daughters, lasted only eight months. That August, the city demanded refugees relocate their cottages out of the park. Unable to come up with the money to do so—on average, it cost $71 to move the structures—Kelly and her husband stayed put as long as they could. On Sept. 28, 1907, their cottage was torn down, leaving the couple to sleep entirely unsheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-800x786.png\" alt=\"A woman using a makeshift stove in the Jefferson Square refugee camp. City Hall's dome can be seen in the distance. \" width=\"800\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-800x786.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-1020x1003.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-768x755.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-1536x1510.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM.png 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman using a makeshift stove in the Jefferson Square refugee camp. City Hall’s dome can be seen in the distance. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory/wnp37.01528)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unknown how and when exactly Kelly’s war with the city ceased. But her own ending was not an unhappy one. On Oct. 18, 1911, the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported that Mary Isabella Kelly was among the first wave of women who registered to vote in California. She was, at that time, living at 47 Julia Street, near City Hall, and had not returned to cleaning houses. Rather, she now listed her occupation as “a nurse and labor unionist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Kelly’s tireless fighting for those who were left with the least in 1906 changed her life permanently. It politicized her, it made her a leader, and it taught city officials a thing or two about respect. In the latter half of her life, Kelly tirelessly demanded fairness and equality, and never backed down from a fight, even against people and organizations far more powerful than herself. She would have undoubtedly appreciated the description the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> once gave her. And it’s probably how we should remember her now: “The arch agitator of the refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" style=\"font-style: italic;background-color: transparent\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After losing her home in the fire, Mary Kelly was transformed from a working-class mother to “the arch agitator of the refugees.” ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705090835,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1677},"headData":{"title":"The 1906 Earthquake Survivor Who Fought For San Francisco’s Homeless Population | KQED","description":"After losing her home in the fire, Mary Kelly was transformed from a working-class mother to “the arch agitator of the refugees.” ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The 1906 Earthquake Survivor Who Fought For San Francisco’s Homeless Population","datePublished":"2021-06-28T21:07:15.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T20:20:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/1a5055de-c455-4cc8-8370-ad5e016a9f3a/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13898345/the-1906-earthquake-survivor-who-fought-for-san-franciscos-homeless-population","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Nov. 3, 1906, San Francisco residents, still busy rebuilding the city after April’s earthquake and fire, were startled by a truly bizarre sight. It was a four-horse truck hauling a refugee “cottage” through the city streets, from Fillmore’s Jefferson Square Park all the way down to Ingleside. Hanging out of one of the structure’s windows was an agitated, gray-haired woman in her late forties clutching two placards. They read, “We demand a share of the Relief Fund,” and “We demand a distribution of food and supplies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defiant protester in the window was Mary Kelly, a cleaning woman by trade whose family had been residing in a camp in Jefferson Square since they lost their home and worldly belongings in the earthquake. After months of surviving in cold, leaky tents with her invalid husband William, Kelly had begun squatting in the cottage—a small uninsulated shack with no sanitary provisions—out of sheer desperation. Heads of the city’s Relief Corporation—the organization set up to distribute supplies and donations to refugees—ordered Kelly’s removal on the truck after a month of her refusing to move out or pay rent. As they hauled her away, she is said to have shouted, “I’ll stay with this house if they take it to the end of the Earth!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13899282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13899282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Mary-Kelly-Cottage-Protest-800x390.png\" alt=\"Mary Kelly, as seen in the 'San Francisco Call' newspaper on Nov. 4, 1906, after getting removed inside her temporary house, by city officials.\" width=\"800\" height=\"390\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Kelly, as seen in the ‘San Francisco Call’ newspaper on Nov. 4, 1906, after getting removed inside her temporary house, by city officials.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What was happening to Kelly was by no means standard practice for the Relief Corporation. It was an unusually harsh and public punishment doled out against an individual who had spent seven months loudly and persistently demanding dignity for those who lost their homes in the April 18 disaster. In that time, Kelly had transformed herself from a private, hard-working wife and mother into one of the most tenacious activists in the city. Her efforts made her a leader in her community, but a sharp thorn in the side of city officials and the Relief Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13895374","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Once delivered to Ingleside, for three whole days, Kelly stayed inside her cottage, “firmly roped to the truck,” the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> noted. She later reported that she was subjected to daily harassment and verbal abuse from Relief Corporation employees that would “turn the crowd of thugs in a tenderloin saloon, let alone a respectable woman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her third day on the truck, the Relief Corporation roughly dismantled the cottage with Kelly still inside. “There seemed about ten men with axes and crowbars and hatchets getting on the roof and ripping off the shingles,” Kelly later wrote in a pamphlet titled \u003cem>Shame of the Relief\u003c/em>. This despite the fact that Kelly was, according to the \u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em>, “worn and feeble” due to “a fast developing case of grip or pneumonia sapping her energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a perfect legal right to the cottage,” Kelly wrote in April 1908, “as it was built out of the money which had been sent here to San Francisco to rehabilitate the suffering and destitute refugees … The cottage was built on public ground, and it was not right to pay six dollars or any other sum per month for rent of these cottages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what exactly had Kelly done that spurred the Relief Corporation into taking such cruel and unusual action towards her? It started almost immediately after the earthquake and fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-800x561.png\" alt=\"Earthquake refugees gather at Jefferson Square as smoke still billows from the 1906 fires.\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-800x561.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-1020x715.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-160x112.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-768x538.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-1536x1077.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM-1920x1346.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.25.34-PM.png 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake refugees gather at Jefferson Square as smoke still billows from the 1906 fires. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp37.00042)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When city officials encouraged camp residents to leave the parks, she was one of the loudest objectors. The rents in San Francisco were inflated after the fire—they doubled in the unburned Western Addition, for example—and many locals had lost their places of work. The working poor simply couldn’t afford to move into new homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When city officials encouraged camp residents to leave the city for towns with cheaper rent, Kelly publicly spoke out about the financial impracticality of doing so. The money she would have to come up with for her own, and her family’s, daily commutes to San Francisco for work, were entirely unfeasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898764\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898764\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-800x567.png\" alt=\"The Jefferson Square camp, viewed north from Turk St.\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-800x567.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-1020x723.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-160x113.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-768x544.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-1536x1089.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM-1920x1361.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.16.41-PM.png 1984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jefferson Square camp, viewed north from Turk St. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp59.00056)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon, Kelly was leading marches and making speeches on behalf of her community—in her words, a “steady, honest, hard-working class of people who never asked for charity from anyone and always paid their own way.” She demanded cash grants be distributed directly to the refugees. She publicly criticized camp administrators, city officials, and the Relief Corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly didn’t just go after the slow-moving bureaucracy that prevented the refugees from receiving their due, she went after the men at the head of the organizations. At one point, she accused “nearly every man that held any prominent position at the Relief Headquarters” of using relief money to buy expensive cars for their own personal use. At another, she led and made speeches in front of 3,000 protestors outside a banquet attended by city officials. “Let the whole world know,” their banners read, “that while we are starving, they are feasting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly had no qualms about calling out these individuals and publicly portraying them as sniveling, self-serving cowards. Of the attendees at that particular banquet, Kelly later wrote, “Fearing that we might force an entrance and partake of their fine menu, they very quietly sneaked out of the back entrance of the hotel and rode away in their autos, not to again return to finish their banquet until after the poor, suffering refugees had returned to their cold and dreary tents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Mary’s delivery sometimes erred on the side of the dramatic, her keen sense of injustice was not without cause. Funds and provisions to assist earthquake survivors were woefully mishandled at times, and in ways that served to reinforce the pre-earthquake class structure. Financial assistance from the Relief Corporation, for example, was distributed on a tier system that benefited property owners, business owners and the well-connected first. The poorest, most hungry and least able to find work were often left to languish the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898774\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-800x504.png\" alt=\"Officers distributing flour near Moscone Playground (then Lobos Square).\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-800x504.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-1020x642.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-768x484.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-1536x967.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM-1920x1209.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.46.38-PM.png 1988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officers distributing flour near Moscone Playground (then Lobos Square). \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory / wnp15.1682)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One particularly egregious example of this occurred after the Relief Corporation attempted to sell some of the flour sent from Minneapolis to distribute to hungry refugees. When donors heard of the corporation’s intent to sell, they objected. The corporation responded by dumping multiple barrels of the flour into the Bay. This kind of spiteful mismanagement is what prompted Kelly, along with about a hundred other women, to storm the city’s main relief warehouse on July 6, 1906 and walk out with 2,000 pounds of flour. “The women declared that the flour had been sent here for them,” the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported, “and they were going to take it.” The incident was characterized by the local press as a “riot” by “irate” women who “would not listen to reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13894842","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The war between Kelly and city officials was granted a brief reprieve only after tragedy struck. In January 1907, two of Kelly’s daughters were tragically murdered by their sister’s husband. Joseph Rabley targeted the entire Kelly family after his wife, Mary Jr. left him after suffering beatings at home. After Rabley gunned down Elizabeth Kelly, 16, and Martha Krueger, 28, near the intersection of McAllister and Octavia, he turned the gun on himself, “tearing off the top of his skull,” the \u003ca href=\"https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1907-01-07/ed-1/seq-1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Call\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two months after they had paraded her through the streets and destroyed the cottage she claimed, the Relief Corporation finally granted Kelly and her husband a similar shelter at Dolores Park. The respite, born out of sympathy for the loss of Kelly’s daughters, lasted only eight months. That August, the city demanded refugees relocate their cottages out of the park. Unable to come up with the money to do so—on average, it cost $71 to move the structures—Kelly and her husband stayed put as long as they could. On Sept. 28, 1907, their cottage was torn down, leaving the couple to sleep entirely unsheltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-800x786.png\" alt=\"A woman using a makeshift stove in the Jefferson Square refugee camp. City Hall's dome can be seen in the distance. \" width=\"800\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-800x786.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-1020x1003.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-160x157.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-768x755.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM-1536x1510.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-11-at-12.33.32-PM.png 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman using a makeshift stove in the Jefferson Square refugee camp. City Hall’s dome can be seen in the distance. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory/wnp37.01528)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unknown how and when exactly Kelly’s war with the city ceased. But her own ending was not an unhappy one. On Oct. 18, 1911, the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported that Mary Isabella Kelly was among the first wave of women who registered to vote in California. She was, at that time, living at 47 Julia Street, near City Hall, and had not returned to cleaning houses. Rather, she now listed her occupation as “a nurse and labor unionist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, Kelly’s tireless fighting for those who were left with the least in 1906 changed her life permanently. It politicized her, it made her a leader, and it taught city officials a thing or two about respect. In the latter half of her life, Kelly tirelessly demanded fairness and equality, and never backed down from a fight, even against people and organizations far more powerful than herself. She would have undoubtedly appreciated the description the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> once gave her. And it’s probably how we should remember her now: “The arch agitator of the refugees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" style=\"font-style: italic;background-color: transparent\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13898345/the-1906-earthquake-survivor-who-fought-for-san-franciscos-homeless-population","authors":["11242"],"programs":["arts_8978"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_7862"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_5209","arts_1355","arts_21841","arts_1146"],"featImg":"arts_13899021","label":"arts_8978"},"arts_13898453":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13898453","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13898453","score":null,"sort":[1623196042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tenderloin-art-festival-raises-funds-for-unhoused-neighbors-mutual-aid","title":"Tenderloin Art Festival Raises Funds for Unhoused Neighbors, Mutual Aid","publishDate":1623196042,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Tenderloin Art Festival Raises Funds for Unhoused Neighbors, Mutual Aid | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":140,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As California reopens and in-person events slowly begin popping up, it’s more important than ever to look to our communities and assess where help and healing are needed. It’s crucial that the work is done to lift one another up in order to reimagine the kind of world we want to see moving forward.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Saturday, June 12, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/houseless_aid_sf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houseless Aid SF\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/communitymakes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Makes\u003c/a> are putting on an art fundraiser to raise money for mutual aid funds that help people experiencing homelessness. These organizations have been taking donations for specific people who are in need, largely through social media, but now they’re taking the next step and hosting an event in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CPuWEzXJy3O/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From 12-6pm on Larkin Street between Eddy and O’Farrell Streets, dozens of local artists will set up their booths and displays filled with original artwork, jewelry, clothes and more. The event aims to highlight Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Pacific Islander, queer and trans artists in particular. Visual artist and muralist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ettyalberto/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Etty Alberto\u003c/a> will be showing her work; the brand \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chinese_grandpa/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Grandpa\u003c/a> will sell crocheted hats and purses; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dogmanprintco/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dogman Print Co.\u003c/a> will be offering hand-printed shirts with custom designs. (Full disclosure: I will also be selling my artwork at the event.) Each artist will donate 25-50% of their profits to Houseless Aid SF and Community Makes, which will direct funds to the nonprofits \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larkin Street Youth Services\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotelsnothospitals.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotels Not Hospitals\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, the event will allow artists to meet other like-minded creatives and rebuild community after over a year in isolation. Attendees of the festival will enjoy live music by the band \u003ca href=\"https://unclechris.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uncle Chris\u003c/a> while browsing dozens of tables filled with unique finds. This festival is one of the first to come to fruition in light of recent openings, but it’s only the beginning of a bounty of events seeking to make change in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Artists and musicians are teaming up for a benefit for Larkin Street Youth Services, Hotels Not Hospitals and Houseless Aid SF. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008247,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":336},"headData":{"title":"Tenderloin Art Festival Raises Funds for Unhoused Neighbors, Mutual Aid | KQED","description":"Artists and musicians are teaming up for a benefit for Larkin Street Youth Services, Hotels Not Hospitals and Houseless Aid SF. 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These organizations have been taking donations for specific people who are in need, largely through social media, but now they’re taking the next step and hosting an event in San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CPuWEzXJy3O"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From 12-6pm on Larkin Street between Eddy and O’Farrell Streets, dozens of local artists will set up their booths and displays filled with original artwork, jewelry, clothes and more. The event aims to highlight Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Pacific Islander, queer and trans artists in particular. 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Each artist will donate 25-50% of their profits to Houseless Aid SF and Community Makes, which will direct funds to the nonprofits \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larkin Street Youth Services\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotelsnothospitals.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hotels Not Hospitals\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, the event will allow artists to meet other like-minded creatives and rebuild community after over a year in isolation. Attendees of the festival will enjoy live music by the band \u003ca href=\"https://unclechris.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uncle Chris\u003c/a> while browsing dozens of tables filled with unique finds. 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