Illustration by Annie Spratt on Unsplash In 1991, I arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area and began a journey that would take me from San Francisco’s disability and community organizing movements, through Berkeley’s cultural and political struggles, into UCLA, and ultimately back to East Oakland. That journey has taught me a central lesson: Black disabled people cannot depend on institutions that marginalize our bodies, dismiss our knowledge, and displace our communities to c

(From Left Tracey Mixon and Tyler Kyser with Coalition on Homelessness) My name is A. Faye I am a Lady of the Shelters. I am a student...