... Chapter 2 explores the period in the shelter known as the shelter renovations or takeover, when a former automobile industry executive becomes the interim executive director of the Fresh Start shelter’s parent organization. The author demonstrates how the improvements that the executive director...

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... homeless shelter low-wage work self-improvement Black girls and education ...

.... This includes formally planned spaces such as shelters and day centers but also the informal squatter camps that developed in the discarded spaces of the city. The placement of these sites has the effect of removing homeless persons from the socially valued and centrally located spaces of urban life. Whether...

... administrative law ID homeless poverty health care prison shelter sex-segregation civil rights ...

...Scripts Chapter 2 explores the period in the shelter known as the shelter renovations or takeover, when a former automobile industry executive becomes the interim executive director of the Fresh Start shelter’s parent organization. The author demonstrates how the improvements...

... days of the shelter are the main narratives in this chapter. The author demonstrates that how these events are imagined, retold, and performed by the shelter residents reflect how Black girls respond to their illegibility by creatively narrating themselves and, thus, locating play in and through...

... Chapter 4 investigates how sexuality and gender organize the lives of low-income young Black women by describing the ways in which ideas regarding normative and deviant sexuality and appropriate and dysfunctional gendered expressions circulate in the shelter. The intersection of class...

... administrative barriers to trans survival: access to ID, placement in sex-segregated facilities such as shelters and prisons, and access to health care. In each of these realms, binary gender categorization is rigidly enforced on everyone and endangers those whose lives and identities defy the rules and norms...

...Bodies Chapter 4 investigates how sexuality and gender organize the lives of low-income young Black women by describing the ways in which ideas regarding normative and deviant sexuality and appropriate and dysfunctional gendered expressions circulate in the shelter. The intersection of class...

... reciprocally shelters differences. What intellectual friendship aims at is the hermeneutic attitude of clarification. friendship letter-form clarification ...

.... The chapter reflects on what homelessness and the problem of inadequate shelter signal for South African democracy and how claims to the city in the past promised access to citizenship in ways that have not been fully realized since 1994. The chapter quite explicitly draws out the relationship between space...