Homefulness Handbook-A Homeless Peoples Solution to Homelessness shared, taught and launched across the Pacific Northwest ...
Homefulness Handbook-A Homeless Peoples Solution to Homelessness shared, taught and launched across the Pacific Northwest ...
Poor, Homeless, Indigenous, Black/Brown peoples go on tour to share an innovative model to solving homelessness called Homefulness, lead a tour of "stolen land" and hoarded resources and share the template of Homefulness with fellow houseless and housed residents of so-called Bellingham, Wa. Bend and Eugene, Or

"Us poor and homeless people in the US are in a state of emergency- between the demolitions of thousands of units of public housing,the extreme rise in gentrification and post-pandemic evictions of low-income and working class elders and families and the concurrent rise in the criminalization of unhoused encampments and our bodies, which is why it is so urgent for people to listen to our own innovative solutions to poverty and homelessness- solutions like Poverty Scholarship and the Homefulness Project so they can build their own solutions, said Lisa Gray-Garcia,formerly homeless single parent, co-author of Poverty Scholarship - Poor People-led Theory Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth and Criminal of Poverty - Growing Up Homeless in America and the most recent release the Homefulness Handbook and The SideWalk Motel- Poems and PoShunary from a poverty skola-
This innovative book and curriculum release will be accompanied by a series of writing/poetry workshops in encampments, community centers, schools and jails with other homeless and formerly homeless communities to help share the extremely innovative poor people-led solution to homelessness known as Homefulness As well as with people with race and class privilege, access to resources and /or land who can learn to activate to liberate a different solution to poverty, homelessness and wealth-hoarding, rooted in indigenous and poverty scholarship- Please contact poormag@gmail.com to inquire about bookings or schedule a reading or performance- All of the Tours will also include a poverty skola "Stolen Land Tour" of wealth-hoarding enclaves across Turtle Island
POOR Magazine is a very grassroots, poor and indigenous people led movement creating media, art, culture, education and solutions since 1996 POOR press is the poor people-led publishing arm of POOR Magazine dedicated to publishing the books and art of very low, no-income, homeless and incarcerated youth, adults and elders.
- Crip Lyrics: The Unapologetic Poetry of Disability by Val Vera
- The Sidewalk Motel: Poems from a Poverty Skola & PoShunary by Tiny Gray-Garcia
- Kai Talks about the Missions by Angel Heart
- What's My Address? by Lisa Ganser
- Chimalli by Muteado Silencio
- Las palabras tienen poder para construir y destruir/Words have power to construct and destruct by Ingrid DeLeon
- Oakland to Iraq by Audrey CandyCorn
Books are available be available on www.poorpress.net -writers available for readings and events