Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support: a Community Arts-Based Research Project
Description:
It is a community-based research project using arts (staged photography) to explore how women and transwomen who are homeless and marginally housed build support networks with each other in order to survive.
Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support" is an artsbased community research project exploring how women and transwomen who are marginally housed build support networks with each other in order to survive. The research team collected interview data, and identified key themes that were then explored in the art making process with other women/transwomen at drop-in centres across the city. Through painting, drama and photography women/transwomen depicted their visions and stories of inclusion, friendship and safe spaces. (excerpt from the source)
Type of Resource:
Journal
Publication Date:
2007
Location:
Toronto