Yeah, she sure shook those big ol’ titties of hers and bounced about the room like a hyperactive toddler off its meds.

Is this really black “art” worth defending?

Sounds like you and those pearl-clutching conservative commenters agree that you can either have performative wokeness, or meaningful action to address real-world problems, but not both.

Lots of black people in that room, and not just the one shaking her titties at the crowd.

She should be sued for misappropriation of funds, as well.

“as if their form of activism will eventually produce meaningful results”

Finally, Mudede lands on the truth.

Thank you, Charles. You really understand the duress homeless services are forced to operate under. And @1, fuck you. What a tawdry thought to express.

"You really understand the duress homeless services are forced to operate under."

Yeah, must be tough with only the $1 billion dollars a year they get according to the Puget Sound Journal. Poor old Kira Zylstra struggling to make ends meet on $125,000 a year. Enough to make you start shooting up heroin and move under I5.

Again, any company hired a stripper for an event there would be firings all over then place.

" What a tawdry thought to express."

Have you watch the video? Tawdry would have been an improvement on Beyonce Black St Jame's titty shaking therapy session.

New York City is 8.6 million people who spend $3.2 billion per year on homelessness. That's over $372 each. Seattle is 720,000 people spending $77 million. Maybe $107 per person. Less than 1/3. If you want to lump Seattle's money in with the whole metro area and fudge a little, you can say that's $1 billion. But it only works out to $263 per capita for the metro area's 3.8 million people.

So yeah, you have these West Coast cities in a panic because they can't seem to get out in front of this homelessness thing. You're not spending all that much. You can yell and fume and act like you shoveling money at the problem, but math is math, guys. You get what you pay for.

I want an explanation of the writer's comment that we don't have a shortages of places. I don't understand, either he's making a sly comment somehow that we have enough places for people but we don't give them to them for some reason (I can only guess he is saying we should distribute regular housing to homeless or something, because unrented places would be enough for them or something?). Please be explicit. He says the following.

"There is not a real problem with housing, nor is there scarcity of resources to meet all basic human needs. But we have homeless organizations and activists that have to operate as if scarcity—in the form housing and capital—are an actual thing."

It almost looks as if it was a work of a mole intended to humiliate the organization and the county. Sadly, the performer being trans and black may be an added value joy to some.
Misuse of funds has already been mentioned, and harassment may also be an issue.

Instead of being over philosophical one should recognize it for what it is: a super huge own goal that is going to be replayed for years to come.

The coalition for the homeless says there are 62,391 people sleeping in NYC shelters nightly as of September.

Seattle is at around 12,000 homeless.

Using that and your figures, New York is spending over $50,000/yr on each person -in a shelter-.

That number is absolutely profane.

@12 - agreed. This was a stupid stupid thing to do but I think we can leave the philosophical discourse to philosophers.

And I would be willing to bet that there's been a stripper or two (and probably the more traditional kind) at some garbage industry conventions. One of those things that stays in Vegas.

There should be an opening of all the financial records for all of these agencies sucking at the taxpayers tit and a public audit of where every penny goes.

But if this is what they spend money on...we should cut them all off of public funds until they make progress on dealing with the homeless issue with the money they've already been given. NO MORE MONEY UNTIL THERE ARE POSITIVE RESULTS.

Do you think they thought it would be a RuPaul style song-and-dance and they just didn't pay close attention to what they were booking? That lack of attention would be about as objectifying as just generally deliberately hiring a minority stripper is.

Nothing like a good CharlesSplaining to make sure i understand my place as a white colonizer and the reason this idiotic event needed to happen. Thanks, Charles, I'll certainly ignore the midarticle link to "support the Stranger" and give to Facing Homelessness instead.

Why is that fat man dressed like a woman and acting like a stripper? And he got PAID? Hoo boy.