Pink Taxis

Another recent effort at "women-only" spaces/services...







What do you think...would you go for the pink taxi if you could?

One Man's Humorous investigation of Street Harassment

"Damn Beautiful..."

Via Redbubble

Ideology Isn't as Much Fun as Street Theater, Apparently

Gems from the Lesbian Avengers from the mid-1990s:

"[D]o radical outrageous stuff."


"[W]orking out an ideology is fruitless and exhausting."


“It is a waste of time, not to mention emotional energy, to try and argue everyone into consensus; what inevitably happens is that some people--usually those without resources and/or confidence--simply give up and others end up determining the strategy.”

We Want:

More space.

Economic Equality.

Women to stop taking shit.

Men to stop giving us shit.

Women-only Parking Spaces

So... this European and Asian phenomenon is making its way to North America.  My disappointment is great.  At best, these efforts write women onto public space as vulnerable entities in need of protection and special services that 'regular' people don't need. 

At worst, they are a vehicle for ridicule.

New Converts to the Bathroom Project

My urban history students got quite lively in their discussion of public bathrooms today.  I think I'll treat them to a new pic of an unusual public bathroom every week.  Hmmm... what to start with????

"Chinese visit a four-story, free-of-charge public restroom in Chongqing, China Saturday July 7, 2007. They're flushing with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 3,000 square meters (32,290 square feet). Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the public restroom listed as the world's largest, state-run China Central Television reported Friday. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **"

CUPID

I ran across a reference to an organization called Citizens for Upgrading Prostitution in Detroit (CUPID) in a 1980 article from The Observer on the Women's Movement in the US.  Hunh.   Anybody know anything about them?  Well, I'll start asking around...