Vendors from Street Sense Media wrote and staged a play exploring solutions to homelessness in early February. From left to right: Gigi Dovonou, Frederic John, Angie Whitehurst, Sheila White, Carlos Carolina, Robert Warren, Jet Flegette, Leslie Jacobson, Queenie Featherstone, and Maria Lares. Photo by Will Schick.

Written and organised by Street Sense Media vendors, a performance staged on 6 February was the culmination of six months of hard work. The show, which last for an hour and included multiple singing ensembles, examined solutions to homelessness via stories of lived experience.

Street Sense Media vendors stage play exploring solutions to homelessness

Thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Bans Off Our Bodies protest in downtown D.C. on May 14. Credit: Kaela Roeder.

As the US repeals Roe v. Wade and rolls back abortion rights, Washington DC street paper Street Sense covers what effect this will have on those on the margins, highlighting the already significant barriers that poor people have to obtaining healthcare, especially those seeking an abortion.

For people living in poverty, getting an abortion was already hard. It’s about to get harder

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