A Call for Social Change Example Photographs

A CALL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE EXAMPLE PHOTOGRAPHS Figure 23. "5 Minutes" (Original Artwork by Youth)

Speaker 1: I think that they need to stop telling you to pack for a weekend, knowing that you're not going to get your clothes for a long time. My second time I packed as much as I can, because it was my second time around. I cried when I packed, like I was like about to throw up, I was crying so hard.

Speaker 2: They told me to take [pack] for like a weekend. And then I left with only three sets of clothes and that's the only clothes I could use. I was two months at this shelter place. And then they never gave me back my stuff. So they threw everything [away]. Like my mom’s stuff, my brother’s stuff, everything out of that house.

Figure 24. "A House Like That"

Those big houses right there. When I get older I want to be in a big house like that.

And sometimes I feel like here [our group home] should have been like that. Like the houses that we

have should have been looking like that house. A two story. Because we have so many girls and we don't have enough rooms. I understand it's two sides of the house, but it could have been a big house, a house full of girls and babies. Not a mansion, but just a regular two-story house. That [the house in this picture] looks nice, [living] in a gated community.