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Just went off on IG live for apparently.. 22 mins.
Time flies when youre unloading abt mainstream bike orgs refusing to perform focused engagement contributing to the disproportionate amount of #POC deaths from #covid19.
A thread on the real time consequence of tabling equity
Time flies when youre unloading abt mainstream bike orgs refusing to perform focused engagement contributing to the disproportionate amount of #POC deaths from #covid19.
A thread on the real time consequence of tabling equity
Folks retweeting & patting themselves on the back for innovating these crisis response bike efforts. And their "rescue" footprints mirror the same damn geographic area it always has from when the people first started saying "cycling so white."
Cycling "so white" cause yall keep using the same damn mailing list and being self impressed with how big it is. Not who is on it...
"Cycling so white" cuz yall refuse one way show up for & build relationships with black & brown communities tho yall happily articulate to me awareness of your outreach failings
As if self-awareness solves something... #fakegrief
As if self-awareness solves something... #fakegrief
"Cycling so white" cuz yall stay focused on gains for those who cycle by choice, the marginalized & segregated that who could be using cycling to address a need- like avoiding COVID infection via public transit.
And now its too late to go out and do the work in the way it needs to be done: On the pavement. Face to face. B/c we literally are not allowed to ( #socialdistancing).
No one wants to take that risk to either offer help or recruit now. To do the equity work uve bn prodded abt
No one wants to take that risk to either offer help or recruit now. To do the equity work uve bn prodded abt
Its even unrealistic to try to wholly rectify via the phone call from exec to exec bc so many community based organs are fully swamped in trying to respond to constiuent needs around HUNGER and EVICTION
(While a lot of your only mad to be *advised* not go out the house
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(While a lot of your only mad to be *advised* not go out the house
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This -the unimaginable situation- is why you do the right thing from the jump. Bc your own understanding can only go so far.
Even the most of progressive of us nev thought of a "transportation alternative" as life
/death matter beyond context of car crashes. But here we are!
Even the most of progressive of us nev thought of a "transportation alternative" as life
/death matter beyond context of car crashes. But here we are!
When I come along needle & criticize orgs, gov & company admins abt the authenticity of their espoused missions to "fight for everyone" and spread the benefit of #bikes to "all residents" it bc of pics of POC #EssentialWorkers crammed into trains...
...breathing each others potentially infectious air and dying in % greater than they exist in the world!
On transit, bikes a transpo far from mind
Or lacking knowledge to fix it
Or not knowing how to ride at all
Or refusing to risk riding on their never-advocated-for streets...
On transit, bikes a transpo far from mind
Or lacking knowledge to fix it
Or not knowing how to ride at all
Or refusing to risk riding on their never-advocated-for streets...
