Housing Works is a organization that works to help people with AIDS or HIV and also to help people that are homeless. They do this by running stores with its merchandise coming from people’s heartfelt donations, and the volunteers who go to work there. My social justice group and I went to Housing Works to…
On a rather ordinary early January day we took a train to the Staten Island Ferry then got on the boat to take us to staten island and a twenty minute walk later we arrived. The building is nice, with a colorful interior. Another elevator ride later we arrived. We sat down with the woman…
We traveled up the great escape to the seventh grade classrooms where we sat down with seventh grade teacher Suzanne Cohen to talk about being gay in today’s harsh environments and political crisis, as well as what she wishes kids knew and were taught from an early age. She told us that she wishes words…
In early December, Peggy Kern, the author of Little Peach arrives wearing a mostly green attire and tall boots, that stop right below her knees. Her auburn hair straightened under her green beanie. Her words start, describing a lifestyle that is unbearable. She tells us that most girls forced into prostitution live about seven years…
For an interview of such a dark nature we traveled to a quiet friendly location. We crossed the three blocks to Starbucks, in heavy rain with a single computer hidden within a small pink bag. Upon arriving we had found that she had already beaten us there. From there we all hit it off, questions…
