5LL #152 - Hotels, Coding, Babies, Tulsa, Queerness

When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go?
Mya Frazier, The New York Times

How extended-stay hotels and motels became the last housing option for thousands of low-income Americans.

The Access Doctrine
Daniel Greene, Logic

Casting poverty as a technological problem has shaped decades of US policy and upended public institutions.

There Is No "Birth Rate Crisis" 
Lyta Gold, Current Affairs

Why the coming “baby bust” isn’t a problem at all, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something very, very sinister.

Robin D.G. Kelley: The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond "Black Wall Street"
George Yancy, Truthout

In the discourse surrounding the massacre, it seems like the fate of those few blocks in and around “Black Wall Street” is all that matters.

Despite Everything, Queer Leftists Survived
Scott W. Stern, Jacobin

The history of queer liberation movements is often talked about as distinct from the history of the Left. But in the first half of the twentieth century, queer people were abundant among American radical leftists — decades before the rise of an organized mass movement for gay rights.

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