Alexandra Goss
Pomona College
Project
Re-imagining the Homeless Narrative: Self-expression at society’s margins
Argentina,United Kingdom, Bolivia, Morocco
Housing insecurity, vagrancy, and dispossession: these are some of the many names given to homelessness. In my Watson year I plan to explore how homeless youth and adults are able to self-represent through the lens of expressive platforms such as video, journalism, circus arts and puppetry. Through this examination, I hope to delve deeper into representations of homeless identities, challenge archetypal views of what acceptable and unacceptable living conditions are, explore my own experience with housing insecurity, and discover how these stories can be told.