A Story About a Plant: Part 2

A Home…

I moved into this apartment in January of 2019 but I first saw it in fall 2018 when word came to through friends that the person who had lived here for ten years was in Brazil and might be moving out altogether. It was a coveted space, part of a house that had been home to Black artists, dancers, creatives, and weirdos ever since a Haitian actor named Jesu had inherited it from their mother who bought it in the 90’s when everything in Oakland was much cheaper and you could theoretically buy a whole house with the money you earned helping activists, drug dealers, and…