What I Did in Parks Before Being Deemed Unsuitable

"I was part of a collective who at the beginning of the pandemic did like six times a week meals, coffee, gear distribution and parks," she says. "We hung out and we distributed food, tents, packs, socks, toothbrushes, really whatever we could get our hands on." She adds that being in the park weekly felt like a thing that happened in Asheville that was the opposite of what had been happening to homeless people there. 'It's important to name how violent those are'