Feminist City with Leslie Kern
The War on Cars
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The Importance of Recognizing Privilege
As white women, as cisgender women, we have an access to space because we are perceived as non-threatening sort of de facto. And then also in the very, very messed up social structure that has evolved in the United States in particular, white women are the thing that gets protected,. How can we use that privilege for good and how can we also learn to sit back and get out of the way when people who don't have those privileges are trying to speak and influence the processes? "The privatization of every comfort and accommodation and service, including just sitting down, is really frightening," she says.
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