POOR Magazine

POOR's Mission

POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.

All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.

Revolutionary Journalism, poetry, & prose on issues of poverty, racism, disability, in/migration, border fascism, incarceration, welfare (de)form, profiling, indigenous resistance, art, media, and more by the folks who experience these struggles first-hand.

(POOR Magazine -The print edition- Is currently out of print due to lack of funding. Some copies of Volume #4: MOTHERS still available by mail order. Contact deeandtiny@poormagazine.org)

Blogs and Journalizm by Poverty Skolaz locally and globally linked below:

Indigenous Mamaz Herstories on Poverty in a Pandemic: Edith Herrera

Mi nombre es Edith Herrera.

Sanguine Bliss

by Lucero Contreras

Indigenous Mamaz Herstories on Poverty in a Pandemic: Carmen Rodarte

Mi nombre es: Carmen Rodarte

#PrivateProperty is a Colonial Lie - Devil-opers Incarcerate a 5700 year old Sacred Site- Save the #WestBerkeleyShellMound

Request for Support from Sogorea Te Land Trust- about the recent "gating" of a 5700 year old sacred site in Occupied Huchuin- (Berkeley)

From White Tiger to NomadLAnd- Poverty Stories About us Without Us Poor Peoples A PovertySkolaz Movie Review

Mural created by poor and houseless artists at POOR Magazine which was painted over to make way for flashier, more “impactful” mural done by middle-class trust fund artists in SF

Bad Choices, Bootstraps and Poverty on Stolen Land -

Listen to this PoemCast from a povertyskola by clicking here

Real Poverty and the Kolonial Myth of the Global South

“It must be hard for people where you come from in this Pandemic” a wite woman neighbor spoke to my South Asian Friend the other day in that usual way “nice” wite people rudely “offer” their arrogant colonial opinions like they are teaching you something, even though noone asked for them.