Gabriella’s Reviews > Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies > Status Update
Gabriella
is 29% done
“[gentrification] needs to be understood alongside careful attention to factors like gender, race, heteronormativity, age, and colonialism…When researchers insist on foregrounding class at the expense of other power relations, we are not just missing something. We are misunderstanding the process itself…this will not actually help us move toward the end goal of all this research: resisting gentrification.”
— Dec 08, 2025 05:27AM
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Gabriella’s Previous Updates
Gabriella
is 70% done
“The truth is that no one is going to hand us the gentrification-proof city we want. We have to imagine it, we have to believe in it, and we have to do it. Even if the doing is simply an action that saves one family from displacement, keeps one affordable food supplier open, or maintains one bench where seniors can gather, it is a necessary piece of the puzzle…Another city is possible.”
— Dec 11, 2025 10:21AM
Gabriella
is 62% done
“How we talk about gentrification matters. Although it is important to be clear about the violence of displacement…there is a fine line between diagnosing harm and offering a prognosis of unavoidable demise…We have to be aware of the danger of ceding the cause, which ultimately lets those in power off the hook and solidifies…capitalist modes of development and the inequalities it produces.”
— Dec 11, 2025 06:18AM
