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Inside the world’s first museum of homelessness

16 June 2024

4:25 PM

16 June 2024

4:25 PM

I’m sitting in a small, cramped room with 20 other people staring at a stick. Not just any stick, mind: it’s been customised with gaffer tape and paint so it looks like a punk shillelagh. The stick has a range of purposes, says the young black woman giving the presentation: comfort, protection, and its primary purpose, support.

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