Content warning: Drugs, homelessness, child abuse, sexual assault
I've just finished A Fish Has No Word For Water: A punk homeless San Francisco memoir by @violetblue. You may know her from The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy.
The memoir is searing. Just look at the first page.
And I didn't expect to learn all this about the history of AIDS or homelessness in San Francisco.
Her mother was a hacker-for-hire and drug dealer to Silicon Valley's elite; after everything went wrong she was homeless and alone on San Francisco streets at the age of thirteen.
