AngryBrownButch

Category: gentrification

  • postmodern hipster colonists suck.

    I’ve found myself thinking, talking, and writing a whole lot about gentrification lately. It’s something I’ve thought a great deal about for a long time, but ever since I wrote that letter to Time Out NY, it’s been coming up more than usual. There’s a lot of good conversation going on in the comments of…

  • “innate charm,” my ass.

    A letter I’ve written to Time Out NY in response to a recent article about finding apartments in NYC: The low-income people of color and immigrants who live in “on-the-verge nabes” (“Apartments 2006,” TONY 552) are being pushed out of these “hot” neighborhoods by a wave of gentrification that TONY seems to be endorsing. The…

  • ACTION ALERT: Help FIERCE fight for queer and trans youth’s right to be in the West Village

    The quick of it, if you don’t have time to read the back story: New Yorkers who care about queer and trans youth of color should show up on Monday at 6:30pm at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, 3 Clarkson Street, 3rd Floor (7th Ave) for an important action by FIERCE against a plan to…