"Stop Sweeping Us, We Are Not Trash: Teaching about Homelessness, Gentrification and Disability"

In this workshop, “Poverty Scholars” Leroy Moore & Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia of Poor Magazine present their revolutionary children's books, poetry and prose. They’ll share teaching strategies for how to educate children, youth and adults about poverty, homelessness, racism, ableism, and displacement from the perspective of those most impacted.

Bios:

• Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused, incarcerated poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, poet, visionary, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio, daughter of a houseless, disabled mama Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/ She is the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America published by City Lights, The Hardworker/El Trabajador on POOR Press and the soon to be released: Poverty Scholarship - Poor People-led Theory, Art, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth-With her Mama Dee & fellow poverty skolaz- she co-founded PeopleSkool, Homefulness - a homeless peoples solution to Homelessness and Deecolonize Academy

• Leroy F. Moore Jr., Founder of the Krip-Hop Nation.  Since the 1990s, has written the column "Illin-N-Chillin" for POOR Magazine. Moore is one of the founding member of National Black Disability and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities.  His cultural work includes the film documentary, "Where Is Hope, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities,” along with spoken-word CDs, poetry books and the children’s book, Black Disabled Art History 101 published by Xochitl Justice Press. His upcoming book is entitled  Krip-Hop Komic, Graphic Novel Vol.1: Brown Disabled Young Woman Super Shereo Brings Disability Justice to Hip- Hop Feb 2019 on PoorPress.