Kristen spends some time this week talking about her personal needs to defy gentrification. And her hot topic is something she’s been boiling over about for decades, teen curfews.

SHOW NOTES

(Apologies for the slightly rough audio, re-recorded and then realized I was on the wrong mic!)

Hot Topic Article from NBC Washington

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/prince-georges-county/prince-georges-county-fast-tracks-teen-curfew-bill-after-national-harbor-brawl/3600453/

What’s happened since they implemented the curfew

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/prince-georges-county/its-100-different-national-harbor-marks-first-weekend-of-emergency-youth-curfew/3603452/

What I said in 2013 when my hometown of Greensboro, NC faced the same issue, and what my solutions were then.

https://theblackurbanist.com/thoughts-bringing-youth-downtown/

Parameters of DC’s Summer Youth Program

https://summerjobs.dc.gov/page/faq-hsip

Sins Invalid Disability Justice Paradigm

https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice

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Kristen's Personal Gentrification Defying Playbook

This week on Defying Gentrification, I, your host Kristen Jeffers, talks to our first guest, Derek Moore, who came by to talk about their experiences with land use and gentrification. Stay tuned to the end to hear what I did after having this conversation! Plus our hot topic this week is how the remaining residents of Chinatown who are Chinese have to take a long bus ride to a grocery store that truly services them. I recorded that part at a store that serves the same role for me and reflect a bit on how that’s affected me over the years, as well as issue a call-to-action for the news site that it came from, as I usually do.

About our guest!

Derek Moore (he/they) is a Central West Baltimore-based Urban Planner and Non-Profit Development professional. He grew up in an Army family and has since lived in many cities across North America. Derek is a transportation advocate - co-founder of local urbanist group Friends of the Underground, Greening chair of Madison Park Improvement Association, and City and Regional Planning master’s student at Morgan State University.

Our hot topic reference article for this week — https://wamu.org/story/24/04/16/dc-chinatown-chinese-residents-leave-city-grocery-shop/

The WAMU takedown that I somewhat reference — https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why-did-wamu-close-dcist/

An analysis and webinar on the lack of grocery stores in Black neighborhoods, focused on the Washington region (DMV) — https://ggwash.org/view/89226/premium-grocery-stores-are-missing-from-the-regions-high-income-black-neighborhoods

Learn more about Eden Center — https://edencenter.com/stores/

(Note, they do NOT have an H Mart, but there is one nearby in Fairfax County, VA)

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Reflecting on Atlanta and Baltimore Gentrification and Community Development with Derek Moore

On this episode of Defying Gentrification, I spend my homeroom time clarifying that gentrification is not a remedy for urban renewal, it’s the continuation of urban renewal, land theft and seizure, forced assimilation, and redlining.

And on my street corner this week, I urge Black women to answer the call for liberation, especially when we are given positions of power, and to do our best to not let it kill us, and honor the memories of those that we have lost to the system despite being in its power structure.

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Here are some of the things I referenced on the episode:

The Assembly [https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/yolanda-hill-mark-robinson-nonprofit/]  article on Yolanda Hill shuttering her organization helping childcare facilities to receive federal funds so her husband could look more Republican as he runs to be the first Black governor of North Carolina.

Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s full remarks [https://youtu.be/j_12_E3LAeg?si=nQi9Rl39Wv0L3Gzz] at Spelman College

ABC News report on the legacy and the tragedy of Dr. Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFUfKVI53fs&t=1s]

My tweet [https://x.com/blackurbanist/status/1780308203768590823]on the depression that comes from reading bad news for a living, even when you have supportive people helping you do so.

The full article [https://inclusivehistorian.com/urban-renewal/#:~:text=Urban%20renewal%20is%20the%20process,HUD)%20grant%20and%20loan%20program]from the Inclusive Historian’s Handbook on urban renewal

History of the Warnersville neighborhood [https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/planning/learn-more-about/historic-preservation/heritage-communities/warnersville#:~:text=Named%20for%20Pennsylvania%20Quaker%20Yardley,them%20available%20to%20%22freedmen.%22]

The Amendment Podcast episode [https://19thnews.org/2024/04/errin-haines-the-amendment-podcast-kim-teehee/] on Representation for the Cherokee Nation in the US Congress

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The Urban Renewal to Gentrification Pipeline

On the third episode of the Defying Gentrification podcast, your host Kristen Jeffers (she/they), spells out why we need to treat gentrification like a disease and eradicate it.

But first, on our street corner, the hot topic is the need to call in our Black siblings who think that verbal transit and street harassment, especially the queer antagonistic kind, is ok, the need to care for our communities over policing them when they err in this manner, and why we should continue to support public transit and increase access to it.

Here's the news article about the incident [https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/man-yells-homophobic-slurs-at-metro-passengers-in-dc-metro-police-investigating/]. 

Read my tweet about this situation. [https://twitter.com/blackurbanist/status/1777324926376026543] (CW: The recording of the incident discussed is in this tweet, which I quote tweeted)

(Also I misstated in the audio that the couple who intervened was heading from Silver Spring, they were heading from Dupont Circle, one of our legacy gayborhoods, to Silver Spring, Maryland)

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Why We Must Eradicate Gentrification.

In this episode, Kristen takes us to school and breaks down who gets to defy gentrification. Spoiler alert, It is those who have been colonized, which generally are indigenous populations of color.

Also, on the Street Corner, the hot topic is both the Kansas City and Washington DC stadium/arena deals and how they are different.

Read the Kansas City Defender article on the stadium vote [https://kansascitydefender.com/politics/kansas-city-rejects-billionaire-stadium-tax/].

Read the KCUR article and see the poster. [https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2024-04-02/royals-chiefs-stadium-sales-tax-question-1-results-jackson-county-kansas-city-election]

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Who Gets to Defy Gentrification?

On this inaugural episode of the Defying Gentrification podcast, your host Kristen Jeffers (she/they), takes you to school in our homeroom to learn exactly what is gentrification, and why should it be defied and eradicated.

But first, on our street corner, the hot topic is how not to leave Baltimoreans of color behind in the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge tragedy, as well as honor their competence in leadership during disaster situations.

Read our street corner hot topic article from Capital B [https://capitalbnews.org/key-bridge-collapse-baltimore-turner-station/].

Read the Curbed article referenced in our homeroom section [https://archive.curbed.com/2014/11/5/10028070/tracing-the-history-of-a-word-as-gentrification-turns-50].

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WTF is Gentrification?

Kristen Jeffers, a Black Queer Feminist Disabled person from North Carolina living in the Baltimore-DC metro region ("the DMV") loves cities. But, she's tired of the rent being too high, transit being nonexistent and Black lives not mattering at all in most cities, even though we created many of the arts and cultural institutions in them. Learn more about how she will be using this podcast to discuss hot topics and resources to help defy AND eradicate gentrification.

Trailer: Introducing Defying Gentrification

Love living in cities, but tired of feeling like you don't belong or don't understand why and how they work? Want to understand more about what gentrification means and how to both defy and eradicate it? 



Join me, Kristen Jeffers, Black queer feminist, disabled, urbanist essayist, editor, and urban planner from the South, living in the MidAtlantic, each week, along with some special guests, to discuss gentrification: what it is, and what it isn't, and how we as Black folks and our co-conspirators, can not just survive on a changing planet but thrive.



We'll discuss hot topics in urban planning, real estate,  housing, and transportation and will teach you everything you need to know about complex and complicated topics in the field, so you can be equipped to help your community thrive.



We are committed to justice and liberation and we hope you'll feel better and empowered after listening. 

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