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Real Talk
Illustration: Yann Bastard
Published April 21, 2021
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My happy place is that chaotic zone of salt and spray where the beach meets the sea, a place of coming and going, flux and exchange. I love to dig my toes into the suctioning sand and feel the swirl of a receding wave. Though often my feet find sharp things in the soft sand not just gravel and pebbles but also, increasingly and overwhelmingly, plastic. I try to collect the shards, the bits of aquas, whites, and teals, but soon I give up, angry and defeated. There is too much. So much of it is too tiny to hold or even see.
CBS News CBS News April 13, 2021, 11:39 AM
Nonprofit builds tiny homes for trans women living on the streets: We re doing it out loud and proud
One in five transgender Americans has been homeless at one time or another. A Tennessee nonprofit is tackling the problem, giving permanent housing to some of those who are most at risk one tiny home at a time.
Kayla Gore is a Tennessee resident who spends every Thursday at a Memphis park, handing out hot meals and hope to people living on the streets.
Gore herself was homeless 10 years ago. Other people who were experiencing homelessness kind of showed me how to stay safe, because I m a transgender woman, I m Black, she told CBS News Adriana Diaz. They taught me how to sleep on top of buildings, how to hide my clothes during the day.
Being a club president comes with challenges, but for those who took the helm in 2020, there were additional, unforeseen adversities that surfaced. Coupling the pandemic with the racial injustices that fueled the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, it hasn’t been a particularly easy or normal term for African American Student Union (AASU) Co-Presidents Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021). We talked to the two second-year students about how 2020 affected their term, highlights from their time as co-presidents, and their advice for the next AASU presidents and all of HBS.
What are you most proud of from your time as co-presidents?
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Angelica Butler was tired of having to out herself as a transgender
woman every time she applied for a job or tried to rent an apartment. Prospective landlords and employers rejected applications when her identity documents didn t match her gender, ultimately throwing her in-and-out of homelessness for seven years. I was at a place in my life where for me to have a home of my own is a big deal because I didn t want to be out on the streets, Butler said.
Now,
with its own bedroom and kitchen
in Memphis, Tennessee,
as part of a
landmark project started by grassroots organization My Sistah s House to help solve transgender homelessness. The effort broke ground in January and hopes to build 20 tiny homes in total, five of which will be completed this year.