Articles and Interviews
Where Can We Live? The Homeless Crisis in America
September 8, 2024
Syndicated to The Nation and dozens of other progressive outlets
In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Washington.
To solve poverty in our country, let poor people take the lead
May 7, 2024
“They say we are trash people. White trash.” So begins the new book Trash: A Poor White Journey (Broadleaf), written by Cedar Monroe.
Interview with Cedar Monroe ’13 on their new book, Trash: A Poor White Journey
July 31, 2024
Episcopal Divinity School alum Cedar Monroe ’13 released their first book, Trash: A Poor White Journey in March 2024.
Rejecting the empty promises of white supremacy
2024
Trash is part memoir, drawing on Monroe’s experiences growing up poor and white in the Pacific Northwest, part prophetic admonition of capitalism and colonialism, and part call to arms for poor white people to break with the empty promises of white supremacy and join an emerging multiracial movement of the poor for transformative social change.