I learn to sleep on an air mattress in the one-bedroom apartment I share with my mother. We don’t have any real furniture yet, but we do have a space to call our own. There’s no overbearing or intoxicated male presence to tell us what to do, and for the first time in my life, […]

I’m re-blogging this powerful post about experiencing poverty by Denaya Rose. It touched nerve, heart and sinew and I wanted to share it in place of my Sustainable Sundays post. Inequality cannot coexist with true sustainability. Do read this wonderful writer’s work, it says it all in ways I cannot.

via Poverty Lessons. — Denaya Rose