Welcome to Kristen’s Gentrification Defying Front Porch (KGDFP)! On Sunday afternoons/evenings, you’ll find this essay of the week, my art/fiberworks in progress, and some of my other favorite things, distinct from my Ask Kristen Anything reminders/recaps on Monday and podcast release announcements on Friday, but I’ll do a little bit of that at the bottom of this email to make sure you’re caught up. The idea is that we’re sitting on my front porch and I’m telling you a story, plus sharing my studio progress, similar to how we do at a craft/makers night. The LinkedIn and my website versions are ..read more

On this episode of Defying Gentrification, I, your host  Kristen Jeffers (she/they)  clarify 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. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defying-gentrificatio ..read more

On the third episode of the Defying Gentrification podcast, I, your host Kristen Jeffers (she/they), spell 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 transportation, not eradicate it in these moments. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts, https://pod ..read more

Welcome to Defying Gentrification, Crafting Liberation, the newsletter of me, Kristen Jeffers. A Black, queer, feminist, disabled, urbanist elder millennial (born 1985) from Greensboro, North Carolina USA, who lives in Southwest Washington, DC. This newsletter is my personal letter opening you up to how I crusade for a better living environment and my love for fiber craft. This week, I’m proud to present the return of my podcasting career, Defying Gentrification. And yes, I had some time to do some crafting this week, but we’ll get to that at the end of this email. The first time I ever creat ..read more

Hey y’all, Kristen here and this is my monthly newsletter. I used to write longer ones, but if you’ve read any of the past few issues, you’ll know that this year has been a transitional year in my ability to write. However, I always have a story to tell and in December, I always make wishes. I made several global and personal ones this year. Make sure you’re subscribed so you never miss a note from my Black queer feminist urbanist perspective, I have a big announcement about tomorrow’s originally scheduled book launch webinar, which is now postponed until January 4. So, what are my global wish ..read more

Welcome to my monthly newsletter for November of 2023. If this is your first time here, I’m Kristen Jeffers, a Greensboro, NC-born, Southwest Washington, DC resident who is proudly Black, queer, feminist, chronically ill and an urbanist. For over 13 years I’ve brought my expertise in media, urban planning, nonprofit management, and being a decent human in urban areas to the internet, as well as in real life to universities, professional organizations, social service organizations, and community groups for over a decade and a half.  If you’ve been here before, you know that I usually chock ..read more

Welcome to my new front yard! Yep, almost seven years to the first time I moved to DC, I’ve returned, with Les in tow! Also, Saturday was her birthday and this was her birthday breakfast! Welcome back to The Black Urbanist Weekly. I’m Kristen (she/they), a DC-based born-and-raised North Carolinian, who’s proudly Black, Queer, Feminist, Dynamically Disabled, and Urbanist.  This is a freemium newsletter, where subscriptions open up comments and archives, delve deeper into policy descriptions, and get more information about my favorite pieces of pop culture. However, scholarships exist ..read more

This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E.  Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner,  fiber designer, and contributing editor. Think of this as an editorial page column, but directly in your email. If you’re new here, we usually have six sections: Story of the Week; The Principle Corner; By the Way; On the Shelf, On the Playlist, and Before You Go. You can read all archives right here, on my homepage of our normal format. We als ..read more

This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. Think of this as an editorial page column, but directly in your email. If you’re new here, we normally have six sections: Story of the Week; The Principle Corner; By the Way; On the Shelf, On the Playlist, and Before You Go. You can read all archives right here, on my homepage in our normal format. We also normally ..read more

This is The Black Urbanist Weekly with Kristen Jeffers, an email newsletter that highlights the Black Queer Feminist Urbanist thoughts and commentary of me, Kristen E. Jeffers, an internationally-known urban planner, fiber designer, and contributing editor. Think of this as an editorial page column, but directly in your email. If you’re new here, we normally have six sections: Story of the Week; The Principle Corner; By the Way; On the Shelf, On the Playlist, and Before You Go. You can read all archives right here, on my homepage in our normal format. We also normally ..read more