Thank you, Barrett, for sharing! I’m still mulling over my answer to your last question. Yo! Been a minute since we’ve talked. I read your first post on gentrification (and the cockroach) and Mariah’s response. I really appreciated both articles and some of the thoughts resonated with me and my experience over the past year. […]
Category: Do Not Go Gentri Into That Good Night
Gentrification: Mariah’s Response
Thank you, Mariah, for messaging me this and allowing me to post it on the blog! The whole white-girl-gentrifier problem is something I’ve been thinking about a lot when considering what I want to do after college, and especially with regards to where I want to live. I grew up in New York in Greenwich Village, […]
Who Will Gentrify the Gentrifiers?
There have been several “freak out” moments in our apartment recently. One occurred when a dearly beloved friend (who shall remain nameless) yodeled at me as I was unlocking my door to invite her to drinks, and we came upstairs to find Justine quaking like a shaved Pomeranian. Then there was the moment when I […]
Lord of the Freys 