People Interacting with People
by Pippa Hirst
November 22, 2023 9:00 pm
A podcast about People Interacting with People. In April 2015, I became homeless. I decided to embrace this homelessness and what followed was five years of nomadic life, over 250 moves in Canada and the United States, on an average budget of roughly $22 a day.
While sitting in a 24 hour diner in Toronto on my first two homeless nights, a young man sat beside me and when I told him about my experience – spending 9 hours each night at the diner, getting a free coffee and a brownie on my second night – he turned to me and asked:
“Do you think you’d be having the same experience if you were Black?”
Over those next five years, I had a series of “chance” encounters with Black people and had some very interesting conversations. I documented some of them in writing but when I compiled them into a 300 page script during the pandemic, I realized that – in writing it myself – I had lost the authenticity of the other person’s voice.
And so, I decided to hit the road and reconnect with some of these wonderful people while also leaving myself open to meeting new ones. These are our conversations.
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