RoofLess Radio Street Writing Workshop with Wood Street Commons

RoofLessRadio Reporters HerStories and HisStories, transcribed.

Genie Sullivan

My first memory as a child was sleeping on the floor at the place my dad was working. We weren’t supposed to be there so I just remember this feeling of needing to hide. This process continued every few years that my family was evicted and we spent nights in our vehicle, on couches, or with family.  As a child, I thought my family was a failure and I blamed my parents. However, as a 27 year old going through the same experiences, I realized that a lot of people go through the same thing because of the system’s causes..

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Daewon Aone

3 years ago, I found a gardener’s plot with a tiny house on it. And I’ve been there all on the grace of the Infinite. I use meth from a fail attempt at connecting writing ? as an slective for my PTSD Oakland traumatic J and I make continuous efforts to learn/teach all the Supreme wishes 4 me to

HAVE YOU SEEN COPS

Erday BRUH on motor bikes and always in a dam helicopter

I came to a conclusion or epiphany: “A dude my age shouldn’t be still living with any ? so I made some happen

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Amy

After working really hard, being beaten/shamed to be what they wanted, I was told that I still  wasn’t enough.  So, at 14 I decided to follow my own path. Over the years, my struggle has been cultivated by/intertwined with depression, anxiety, neuro-divergence, domestic violence, addiction, art, travel, freedom, thriving through survivalism.

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Dani

Dani-mother to Deshae, Danau and Danyel, poverty skola, formerly houseless & now currently homeful at Homefulness.

My auntie kicked me out because of a lie her daughter told her. I stopped smoking meth when I first moved to Oakland, but quickly got back into it. I got lost in the dope world, but I learned how to survive. I was abused mentally, physically and emotionally by my partners. I thought that was the way to be.  Because of all of this I now suffer from depression But I am now currently in the process of healing at 33 year old.

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Kharizma

At 9 my mom got evicted from our apartment in West Grand so we lived homeless at Peoples Park for 3 months.

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LeaJay

My lst time being homeless I was 17.  It was 2 months before my high school graduation- I stayed out all weekend & my mom was mad when I got home. She told me to stay wherever I had been at or leave, but I couldn’t stay anymore so I took my duffle bag to Peoples Park in

Berkeley to try to fend for myself.

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Rozz Veloz

Electrician by force not by choice. Pops owned the company.  We build grocery stores and shit like that.  ?  the guy most f? Do not want to see on their jobsite. Because it means you’ve ? and you about to get the ?  worked for Tesla, I ? LAX and ? $3,000 wk but all I really want to be is the best daddy I can be.  I am story short hold my house in Laguna Beach?, moved up here, to be near my son, custody battle.

I income is s75,000.  Dogs were stolen, jeep was towed. Everything inside stolen, truck, tools stolen, couldn't ?, everything gone.  Liberated.