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YOUR RESULTS FOR STORIES BY McGinlay

McGinlay, who has direct experience of homelessness, joined the Pavement & Groundswell's From The Ground Up peer reporter course during autumn 2017.

Six degrees of separation
McGinlay November 01 2020

WarnIng: contains upsetting content. McGinlay’s focus on this issue’s theme unpicks the links between abuse, power and corruption.

In the late ‘90s, during my teens, I remember hearing a black woman in her 40...

Love is the law
McGinlay November 01 2020

McGinlay finds out what motivates the man studying in the corner of her local McDonald’s

Myself and Roshstein first met at our local 24-hour McDonald’s for the same reason – we were using the free WiFi. Over a couple ...

Healing art
McGinlay July 01 2020

Geraldine Crimmins is a mentor at Café Art which now runs art workshops online. She has lived experience of homelessness. Q&A by our writer McGinlay (before lockdown)

Q: How does homelessness affect people?Homelessness has a variety of impacts on your health, physical and mental. I found t...

My moving on plan
McGinlay March 01 2020

Sometimes moving on is lonelier than you’d think. Here’s help from regular the Pavement writer, McGinlay

Unhappy and struggling at a hostel (see #123 Nov/Dec 2019) McGinlay made two plans to tackle a crap diet and the toxic place she...

Food fixes
McGinlay January 01 2020

Crafty tricks to keep you healthy and full, from McGinlay

Trick 1: Staying in tempo accommo (temporary accommodation)? Have access to a cooker? Do you receive regular donated sandwic...

Hostile hell
McGinlay November 01 2019

Horrible times in a hostel reported by McGinlay. This may be upsetting.

Sometime ago, I used to work for an independent homeless outreach. Though this was rewarding, it was heart-breaking to hear s...

PTSD (to educate)
McGinlay May 01 2019

A poem by McGinlay

I was daddy’s girl & mother’s daughter; now I’m a woman saying I’ve got Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.When I say post, the ...

Hidden
McGinlay July 25 2018

She had a job, but not enough money to pay for life’s basics – food, rent and utilities

She had a job, but not enough money to pay for life’s basics – food, rent and utilities – so why did McGinlay ...

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