"Many people do not have access to easy mobility. They may face impairment due to design features as mundane as stairways, lack of public toilets, or inaccessible transport systems. They may face friction every time they move: cat calls aimed at women... http://a.co/jl2Hjcj 

.."racial aggression aimed at minorities, or rules that exclude homeless people or street vendors from sidewalks. They may be incarcerated, held in detention, or denied entry across a border. They may be forced to live far from city centers in peripheral neighborhoods...

..."lacking good transport connections..." - Mimi Sheller.

(I'm taking advantage of lots of family this weekend to watch the kiddo so I can catch up on all the books I've been wanting to get through).

"Which mobilities are promoted and which are impaired? Whose mobilities are celebrated and whose are blocked? What kinds of mobility are seen as an inalienable right, and how are such rights stripped from some categories of people, such as women, racialized ethnic minorities..."

.."sexual minorities, or migrants and refugees?..The politics of mobility is deeply informed by colonial histories, including histories of coerced mobility, labor exploitation, sexual economies of bodily abuse & the violent movement of white settler-colonialism & imperial duress"

A valid critique to @GovInslee "EVs will save us" climate change policy focus from Mimi Sheller
"Yet both the racialized “mobility poor” and white, working- and middle-class rural and suburban car drivers are very unlikely to benefit from the use of these (relatively expensive)..

."electric vehicles or alternative fuel vehicles, so tax-payers will effectively be paying for public subsidies to the infrastructures used mainly by the urban kinetic elite.
American mobility cultures are deeply distorted through the lens of white supremacy, white nationalism,

..."and racialization of subaltern “others” who are not afforded access to free mobility, and these policies for “mobility transition” do nothing to change that."
(Pg 86)

Read this book! "..a mobility justice approach means revealing the power relations inherent in city & regional planning processes. It means challenging more directly the dominance of automobility and fossil fuels, not to mention real estate developers and so-called place-makers."