A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

‘A House Is Not A Home’ is a long-term photo-documentary project, ethnographically centered & individualized with interviews to discover the livelihoods of new york city’s “LGBTQIA +” youth. Featured in The Museum of The City of New York.

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“A House is Not Home” is a photo documentary project that discovers the livelihoods of New York’s L.G.B.T.Q.+ youth and their unique definitions of home. Today, L.G.B.T.Q.+ youth of color, especially Black youth, face a greater risk of homelessness and incarceration. By giving the power to the individual(s) to choose a location where they thrive despite increased opposition, I invite the viewer to reimagine tradition and envision a safe space. A large proportion of  “lgbtq+” youth survive pertinent challenges while in the home place,  taking on the difficult stages of being a developmental human called adolescence,  as well as navigating interpretations of self with the addition of peers, social media, and society’s perception as a whole. This relationship between home, family, and community has deeper responses that belong to a framework of historical, cultural, and ideological narratives brought upon the individual by their life experiences. Organizers, ethnographers, researchers, and other scholars have documented social projects addressing the terminology of ‘home’ in its relation to the lived experiences of youth primarily in the United States.