In NYC, affordable housing is under attack. As the forces of gentrification move through Brooklyn, landlords and developers are doing everything in their power to displace rent-stabilized tenants — particularly in minority communities like Greenpoint, Bushwick, and Bedford-Stuyvesant, that have long been underserved by the City.
Portions of this post originally appeared in two articles written for RentLogic.
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Bushwick, Resisting: Open Data and Affordable Housing
Affordable housing is serious business in Brooklyn. Squarely in the crosshairs of gentrifiers, the borough — oft-celebrated, oft-condemned — is a rental market battleground.
Portions of this post were originally published in two posts on the RentLogic blog.
A Response To ‘Why Faux-Queens Deserve A Place In Drag Culture’ | The Establishment
I wrote for The Establishment about ball culture, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and the gender politics of “faux queens” taking up space.
A Bill Without A Cause: Why the Ontario Anti-BDS Bill Failed Before it Began
I wrote for The Varsity about Ontario’s brief dalliance with banning BDS, the importance of free speech to Palestine solidarity, and why bad bills deserve to die.
Making Up People Online: A Case Study of Cancer and Construction in Social Media Theory
In this essay, I apply a three-player model of instrumental observation to one case of documentation and performance online — survivor vlogs — to argue that information collection and consumer-user engagement with online content constructs legible narrative realities, making up categories of people and experiences.
