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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It's time to restore June Jordan to the urbanist canon
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The author in Washington, DC, holding her first printed manuscript of The Defying Gentrification Playbook in August 2025; June Jordan in an undated fair use photo.
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Knowing what I can control is how I continue to defy gentrification.
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Welcome back to our Black August series. This week, I’m sharing how I know what I can and can’t control and how that (and the Defying Gentrification Manifesto) are different based on what resources...
Audre Lorde is one of two Black feminists powering my defying gentrification journey.
The author at her laptop in Los Angeles in 2023. Audre Lorde in Austin, Texas, in 1980
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Welcome back to the Defying Gentrification with Kristen Jeffers Black August series. This month, as we honor our p...
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.
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Black, Queer, Disabled, North Carolinian (in Baltimore), Spiritual, Working/Lower-Middle Class, Feminist Urbanism and Textile/Fiber Arts when I have something to say. (she/they).
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