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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.

You can get it on Amazon etc. or direct from the author: digitapub.com/collections/fron…

#reading

Screenshot. Introduction. There are reasons for San Francisco’s homeless crisis, but no one remembers what they are. My mother was a hacker and Stanford engineering graduate. When I was a little girl, she worked as a radio signal jammer for a US government contractor in Silicon Valley. She was single, so she picked up a second job: negotiating the import and sale of cocaine from South America into the San Francisco Bay Area. My mother was a very popular techie and she took me to all the parties. Her clients made sure I had all the games and computer equipment others only dreamed of. I spent my days as a ten-year-old cutting and packaging large amounts of coke and watching my mother and her tech-elite companions unravel, until someone got shot and then everything fell apart.

A Fish Has No Word For Water: A punk homeless San Francisco memoir

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.
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