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X_Mas

Just a pre-holiday note to remind you what this site is for. Convenient link to the GoFundMe below. Yes! I Will Donate! When you’re homeless, everything is both urgent and inevitable. That contradiction is a spirit-killing moment in time, always…

Practical Efforts

How You Can Help Throughout my homelessness, practical help has been surprisingly hard to come by. What does that mean? It means well-intentioned people often don’t know quite how to make a positive difference for a homeless person. There are…

Off Ramp

Sooner or later, a person’s homelessness reaches a point of terminal decline. The undelivered resources, the absence of opportunity, the institutional violence of coercive apathy produce a kind of stasis, a kind of non-life. Beyond survival, no outcome has meaning,…

Numbers/Cost of Living

March 2022 NOTE: This text was written in late 2021, before inflation began to rise. My food costs have, as of March 28, 2022, increased 30%. My income, which as a homeless person is all of $343 monthly, is not…

University Letter

The following is a letter I’ve written to York University. It is long, but I think it’s as long as it needs to be. While writing this letter over the past few weeks, I was able to finally put into…