Sea Glass: Women Speak from America’s Newest Plantations

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Sea Glass is a look into the lives of women who reveal through paintings, poetry and stories, the hardships of poverty, domestic violence, prescription addiction, prostitution, and alcohol poisoning, the humiliation and degradation still present for women in America. Homelessness today is no respecter of race, class, or nationality. Homeless people are our neighbors. Homeless people sit next to us in church. Sea Glass tells the stories of homeless women as they work to transition and move forward through grace. Sea Glass women work for minimum wage when they can find a job; they learn how to survive and thrive, despite the rising tide of poverty and violence in this country. Sea Glass looks at how homeless women create, including parenting with no money for daycare. Sea Glass is about the unbelievable odds women face to survive living through hell. Homelessness for women results not just from poverty but from childhood domestic violence which repeats through generations. Sea Glass teaches women how to survive. Sea Glass is about joy, friendship, finishing your education, finding a job, learning to ride a bicycle to work, or learning to cook and eat together as a family. Sea Glass is about the camaraderie of women living in truth, telling their stories, healing, making amends, and creating new lives.