Posts Tagged ‘Class’
When It’s A Popularity Contest: Here’s How To Redistribute Social Capital In Activist Spaces
The ideas around social capital and popularity often run alongside privilege and desirability politics. Previously, I wasn’t aware of these terms. But after a few, let’s say, “discussions” with other organizers, I’m was made aware of the ways social capital can create hierarchies in organizing spaces. These conversations led to a few things: Some folks…
Read MoreThis Shit Doesn’t Happen Overnight: The Insidious Planning That Goes Into Gentrification
Cold brews and fourteen-dollar raw juice joints and white folks everywhere; in what seems like a blink of an eye, your neighborhood has changed completely. But, despite how abrupt it can feel, gentrification doesn’t happen overnight. Gentrification happens after months, and sometimes even years, of preparation — crafted in the offices of real estate moguls…
Read More10 Heart-Wrenching Rent Crowdfunding Campaigns Brought To You By Gentrification
The word “gentrification” was coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964. In her book London: Aspects of Change, Glass described the upheaval of certain neighborhoods in London by the middle-class “gentry” from the countryside: One by one, many of the working class quarters have been invaded by the middle class upper and lower. Once…
Read More9 Renters Rights Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You To Know
Editor’s Note: We at Everyday Feminism would like to note that this is a United States specific post and that tentants’ laws vary by state. We encourage you to check out the laws where you live to make sure you know your rights. In 2001 I went to law school evenings across the street from…
Read More5 Tactics That Fight Gentrification While Boosting Community Development
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe so many things— top knots, beards, an influx of microbreweries or cheese shops. What’s downplayed is how absolutely threatening and dangerous it is. The pervasive threat of violence hangs in the distance between the kitchen tables of hurting families who are being pushed out of their…
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