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A Black History Month Conversation: From Shelter to Support | Designing Home for Safety & Liberation

🛣️ Exit 2:: Transitions, Alignment & Intentional Living As we begin our Black History Month celebration, this conversation feels timely and important. Black communities have long had to innovate around home, land, and space in the face of exclusion, displacement, surveillance, and systemic barriers to ownership. For us, home has never been just about shelter. It has been about safety, support, and the ability to move toward liberation. In this conversation, we'll talk about the critical difference between being housed and being supported, and why support should never be treated as a privilege. Support is safety, capacity, dignity, and agency - and without it, freedom is fragile. We reflect on how Black communities have always understood this distinction. From the journey of Sister Harriet Tubman, who we know had to rely on repeatable systems of care, trust, and protection to move people toward freedom, to the Civil Rights Movement, where homes became essential spaces for organizing, strategizing, resting, and sustaining liberation work that could not happen publicly. I always share my own experience of designing a tiny home that is my support and liberation, especially after experiencing a stroke. Not as a lifestyle trend, but as infrastructure that supports my healing, safety, and the ability to move through the world with greater ease and agency. After my first HGTV episode in 2015, I heard from an older Black woman who told me I was "The Harriet Tubman of tiny houses" - absolutely not in the sense of critical work our grand sister did, but in naming how visibility and access to alternative housing options can open doors to new ways of living (and liberation) that were previously not on our community's radar. I accept that as an honor. While in our capitalistic society, "housing liberation" is always connected to equity and wealth, this conversation is not about wealth-building strategies. It is about safety, capacity, dignity, and access to homes that can actually hold us, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And in this present moment marked by much political instability, harm, and ongoing violence against Black and brown bodies, designing home for safety and liberation is not theoretical. It is necessary. When we talk about home as liberation, we are not talking about aesthetics. We are talking about access, protection, and the freedom to live fully. This is an ongoing exploration of home as personal, historical, collective, and liberatory. ---------------------- AT YOUR OWN OFF-RAMP? I work with people to help identify their exit strategy and move from 'I know I need to leave' to 'I'm building what's next." This work is personal, I live it every day. From designing my own tiny home to building spaces for others, I’m committed to creating a life that reflects freedom, truth, and intention. 👩🏾‍💻 Resources Here: https://bio.site/msbohemiansoul ---------------------- Join The Soul Collective Community for ongoing support and next chapter design. For a limited time, you can explore the community for free for 21 days. 👩🏾‍💻 Find Your People: https://community.thebohemianbrand.com #BlackHistoryMonth #LessisLiberation #BlackCommunities #HomeAsLiberation