Defying Gentrification with Kristen Jeffers
Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊\ud83c\udffd\ud83c\udf08One of the handful of urbanist media platforms run by a Black person, and probably the only one with a queer, disabled, feminist currently based in Baltimore who also dabbles in fiber arts and singing. I'm Kristen, nice to meet you.
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Introducing My Black August Series
Join me as I tie The Defying Gentrification Playbook to the radical Black queer feminist disability justice principles that inspired it.
Watch the video above to get a summary of what I’m about to share below.
You Can Cosplay as a Gentrifier as A Black Person, But Someone’s Always Waiting to Out-Gentrify You
Photo by Mineragua Sparkling Water on Unsplash. I do not know these people, and I think they are having a good time, but even if they think they are or they seem like it, they are not Black gentrifiers.
Black folks African diaspora-wide ca...
The Black Urbanist Started To Die When My Dad Did
Getting sustenance from my ancestors amongst the crumbs in November 2025. My Dad is pictured at his favorite place, the Waffle House on Randellman Road in Greensboro, NC, in 2013. We believe this is the last photograph of him alive.
I was...
Gentrification is planned obsolescence for people and places.
They have to meet me outside and fight me to even try to make me obsolete!
I was listening to ’s most recent Insight Timer meditation series, and on day five of the series, she talked about ways of being and relationships being obsolete- n...
Defying Gentrifcation is How I've Deconstructed and Reconstructed my Faith
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