Features
An Appalachian View
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Tamara Reynolds has spent her career embedding herself in communities that mainstream culture prefers to look away from.
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Time Without Housing Is Harm: Why Nashville Needs a Real Homelessness System
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In Nashville, we know that at least 3,500 – 4,000 people are living without housing at this very moment, many for months at a time.
Features
Tips if you think you found an orphaned wild animal
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Winter is typically quiet at Harmony Wildlife Rehabilitation, but this year’s late January ice storm brought the busy season early. During the storm, animals were relocated, volunteers came together and supporters brought supplies and chainsaws. “Sometimes it takes the worst storm to bring out the best in people,” said Anastasia Kudrez, executive director of Harmony Wildlife, a nonprofit based in West Nashville. As spring approaches, the typical “animal baby season” rush begins. Harmony Wildlife received more than 10,000 messages about injured and orphaned native wildlife last year, with many coming in during spring.
Features
Nothing About Us Without Paying Us
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Lived experience cohort says they’ll no longer meet without compensation from Metro
Features
Homelessness is lethal. Cold weather just makes it more visible.
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During the ice storm in late January, a street newspaper vendor died while living outside. This is not an unpredictable tragedy unfortunately.
News
West Nashville Community Rallies Around Long Time Contributor Vendor
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Several members of West Nashville came together to honor their Contributor vendor, Maurice B.
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Unzine Pop-Up Exhibition Opens Nov. 8 at Gallery 56
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The show brings to life the eponymous zine series created through a partnership among The Contributor, Nashville Street Poetry Project, and Stagger Press
Features
Longtime Contributor writer and vendor, Jen A., leaves a legacy of brilliant art and love
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Jennifer Alexander, longtime Contributor vendor, artist, poet and writer, died Sept. 19 after suffering from a terminal illness. She was 74 years old.
Features
A Right to Housing: Maria Foscarinis on the Fight to End Homelessness
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Foscarinis reflects on her role in shaping federal homelessness policy and the urgent need to reframe how America thinks about housing