Notes from a Texas Prison: Billy’s Story

by Contributing Author

by Billy Thomas

EDITOR’S NOTE: Street Sheet is reprinting this piece from the 2024 Pride issue. Billy Thomas, an inmate at the John Wynne Unit of Texas State Prison in Huntsville sent multiple letters to ABO Comix in Oakland, California throughout 2022 and 2023. Street Sheet adapted these letters into a single piece, editing for brevity and clarity.

I am a 51-year-old person, a two-spirited transgender. I am a survivor of mental and sexual abuse from my time in the care of Texas Child Protective Services,

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Sober Living in Permanent Supportive Housing: How Exactly Does That Work?

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by Jordan Wasilewski

In springtime of 2025, the conversation around sober and recovery housing continues from San Francisco to Sacramento. Matt Haney’s Assembly Bill 255 allows cities and counties to set aside up to 25% of state homelessness funds for sober living quarters. The set-aside is not required: It’s merely an ask for permission to allocate funding for up to 25% of permanent supportive housing units of funds for sober living,

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Talk to Me

by Contributing Author

by Tatiana Lyulkin

It’s not a good time

To bring up the things

We’ve lost-

A cup of black coffee

And a hug

Are all I need.

When the night

Grows silent and cold

And no one

Remembers our names

Or what we used to be

Knowing that you’re real

And you truly care

Gives me the strength

To survive another day. 

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WRAP Hits a Milestone: 20 Years of Unhoused People Fighting for Dignity and Respect

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by the Western Regional Advocacy Project

When the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) says “we,” we literally mean every single group and person that built and sustained our community organization for the past 20 years!

In 2005, representatives from seven organizations along the West Coast began strategizing around how to address the root causes of homelessness, starting with the actual day-to-day realities people experience in the streets.

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