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The Untokening periodically releases collective statements that advance our vision for mobility justice. Here is how to respectfully use our work:
These statements are intended to amplify the perspectives of individuals who have lived experience being part of marginalized groups; these works alone are insufficient as a substitute for those individuals’ expertise within mobility advocacy, planning, or policy.
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After four years of producing national gatherings, online conversations and advocacy resources, 2020 has been a year of planning and reflection for the Untokening. Check out the report to see what we found in our year-long process and find out where we’re going over the next 18 months!
The Untokening, in collaboration with Pueblo Planning, started convening a virtual conversation in April 2020 to share our concerns and visions for mobility justice in a COVID-19 world. The “COVID-19, Uprisings, & Mobility Justice” report summarizes our process, includes recaps of all five sessions, and reflections and learnings from the series as a whole.
City planning as a profession has contributed to violence and trauma of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). In this June 2020 Transformative Talk, we explored what is our responsibility as practitioners, particularly those that are BIPOC practitioners, and what can we do to move from colonialism to liberation?
What are alternatives to Amazon and other food delivery channels? There is a lot of the exploitation of these third party apps that try to keep rates down and minimize risk for themselves and increase profits for themselves. In this June 2020 Untokening Transformative Talk, we reflected upon the price of convenience.
What is the difference between “safety” and “security,” and how has the COVID-19 crisis puts another layer of surveillance in Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) communities? In this May 2020 Transformative Talk, Rio Oxas, Dominique Diaddigo-Cash and others explored alternatives to community safety that center the well-being of BIPOC, implements restorative justice, and operationalizes accountability.
In this Transformative Talk, co-facilitators co-facilitators Lynda Lopez, Midori Valdivia and Mariana Huerta along with community panelists shared their thoughts, experiences and recommendations on providing safety, support and dignity for transit drivers and riders.
During the May 2020 Untokening Transformative Talk, our community engaged in a justice-focused conversation about Open Streets and emphasized the importance of focusing on the people, not infrastructure. Our co-facilitators were Lynda Lopez (Chicago) and Marcela Guerrero Casas (Capetown, South Africa). The following insightful highlights, that can be applied in the COVID-19 era and beyond, were provided by our co-facilitators and community panelists.
In response to the current pandemic, our network convened a virtual conversation, in collaboration with Pueblo Planning, to share reflections and recommendations for mobility justice in the COVID-19 world.
What does “mobility justice” mean in Santiago, Bogotá, or Ciudad de México? How does a concept like “untokening” travel to places with different legal and cultural histories of race, class, gender, and ability? A transnational team has taken on the project of translating the 1.0 Principles of Mobility Justice into castellano Spanish.
On October 3, the Transformative Talks series hosted a webinar focused on “new mobility and mobility justice.” Dr. Mimi Sheller (Drexel University) and Dr. Do Lee (Queens College, City University of New York) joined host Dr. Adonia Lugo. Our producer was Monique G. López.
On Wednesday, September 12, we held the first Transformative Talks Family T-Time. Ten of us joined the call to discuss gaslighting: what is it, how have we experienced it, and how do we move past it?
On February 5, the writing and editing committee that created the Principles of Mobility Justice and the Untokening Mobility narrative reflected on the process of teasing out common themes and challenges from the wide ranging discussion at our first Untokening convening in Atlanta.
This narrative was created from group discussion notes gathered at "The Untokening: A Convening for Just Streets & Mobility" held in Atlanta in 2016. We would like to thank all of the attendees and notetakers for their contributions. This document was edited in 2017 by Adonia Lugo, Naomi Doerner, Do Lee, Sarah McCullough, Sahra Sulaiman and Carolyn Szczepanski.
These principles were drafted using perspectives gathered at "The Untokening: A Convening for Just Streets & Communities" held in Atlanta, GA on November 13, 2016. Instead of offering ready-made solutions, these principles outline recommendations for mobility justice that are rooted in the liberation of historically marginalized communities.
At this moment, there are many vacancies within the leadership of influential active transportation organizations around the U.S. Leaders within the Untokening collective have identified what leadership elements we believe will aid in the transition to sustainable transportation within the communities we know and serve — communities where many people already use active transportation under harsh conditions.