by Dr. Swati Kumari In the last post of our dossier on Building Feminist Cities, Swati Kumari from the Edinburgh Earth Initiative shares her research that complicates ideas of safety. Adopting an intersectional approach to safety, she argues, helps us see it as more than protection from sexual harassment alone. Image: Traffic in New Delhi. …
Caption: The team at Safetipin by Geetika Sharma for the Safetipin team Feeling safe and secure in the city is a fundamental right that every citizen should be entitled to. Freedom of accessing and using public spaces freely enables everyone, especially women, to truly enjoy their “Right to the City”. However, in today’s world, there …
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Image sourced from Strut Safe Twitter https://twitter.com/strutsafe?lang=en Amidst public conversations around gendered safety in light of the Nicola Bulley case, GENDER.ED asked a broader question: how do we build feminist cities? We had a special transnational conversation inviting two groups to share their ground-breaking work on gendered safety. In this blog-post, we recognise the trailblazing …
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GENDER.ED sat down with two groups who work on building feminist cities to ask them what they do and how they do it! Check out this transnational conversation bringing together Safetipin and Strutsafe to talk about safety, the work of care, and a collective commitment to building feminist cities. Here’s the transcript! For the audio, listen …
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