Archive - Defying Gentrification, Crafting Liberation

When grief is a place too, but I can wind a fiber to liberate me from it…

My hometown was built with yarn and fabric. Could I not build my Black queer feminist accessible urbanism with that instead of the grief and loss and…

Jun 27 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

May 2025

Black folks can be agents and victims of gentrification, nothing more and nothing less. Oh, and I'm going to be doing my art in peace.

This is not a retirement as much as its a redirection

May 22 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

6:49

April 2025

Gentrification is fascist, but it's not too late to stop either.

Defying Gentrification Podcast Episode 10

Apr 25 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

39:45

Yes, gentrification is fascism. But it’s not too late to shut down both.

Defying Gentrification, Crafting Liberation for Friday April 25, 2025

Apr 25 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

February 2025

On The Radical Faith It Takes To Defy Gentrification

Defying Gentrification, Crafting Liberation for February 2, 2025

Feb 2 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

Making Plenty Good Room with Rev. Dr. Andrew Wilkes

These are times that call on a radical belief in oneself and their community.

Feb 2 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

1:15:22

January 2025

Let's set the intention for Defying Gentrification and Crafting Liberation in 2025

Using this January 1, 2025 letter to reset how I want to approach this space and all my creativiy going foward.

Jan 2 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

December 2024

I Wish I Really Could Defy Gentrification in 2024

My 2024 Urbanist Wish is finally here

Dec 22, 2024 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

November 2024

Do I have to pick a hometown?

Eight Years a Washingtonian, The Conclusion.

Nov 18, 2024 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

What chu mean ain't no soul food in DC? You must be drowning under all of our water!

Eight Years a Washingtonian Parts 6 & 7 -- where I drag DC's lack of real soul food, but honor its abundance of water and waterways.

Nov 4, 2024 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

Welcome to DC! U Black, Maybe? U Gay Maybe?

Part 4 and 5 of My Series Eight Years a Washingtonian, On My Relationship With Myself and My Political Identities

Nov 1, 2024 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

October 2024

Learning how to govern myself accordingly

Part 3 of My Series Eight Years a Washingtonian, On My Relationship with this Town's Largest Industry

Oct 21, 2024 •

Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈

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