Transportation for whom?
It’s dark when Carmen wakes to the sound of her alarm clock. Preparing for the day, she packs her bag for work, makes breakfast for her children and fills their backpacks. After helping them…
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Theme: Gender and Sexuality
Gendered Cycling and Covid-19
English + Español
“Are you okay? Are you going to make it?” Fernanda Garcia shouted to me as we cycled up the hillside of Pichincha toward her gated community on the periphery of Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. I replied back, “Let’s just keep going.” A few moments later, when I was struggling…
Where do we, women, go? (Quo vadis, women?)
English + Español
During the last year, we have witnessed a sudden, traumatic change in our lives. We have seen how the pandemic accelerated inequality in the world, jeopardizing decades of social…
Cuban Working Women during the Pandemic
English + Español
These are machista comments that I gathered while standing with other Cubans in the longest lines I can recall since the appearance of Covid-19. The meaning of these…
The Accordion Experience in Public Spaces
English + Español
It was not easy to begin my doctoral program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design when the world is changing at rates that I had never witnessed before. The remote mode gave me the…