Ashley Pryce

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Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women nytimes.com/2020/10/13/opi…

On Monday 9/28, join a discussion with four women who are leading the way on authentic engagement in #transportation planning. Featuring: @AnitaMHairston, @DrDesThePlanner, @Bici_Urbana of @NelsonNygaard, & KeAndra Cylear Dodds @metrolosangeles. Register: bit.ly/2G0kqYy

Whew chile. open.spotify.com/episode/78pHwX…

Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free newyorker.com/news/our-colum… via @NewYorker

I really enjoyed reading this. The writing in this article is beautiful. The way in which white folks continue to be pumped up, amplified, & celebrated for saying things women of color (esp Black women) have been saying is not.

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/…

shouts to ⁦@Bici_Urbana⁩ and ⁦@DrDesThePlanner⁩ planner in this piece. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

@lambarghini_ same

still here at the #unurbanist assembly @lambarghini_ dropping GEMS about decommodification of land, and what return to rural black spaces might look like for grandchildren of the great migration. check out her book recommendation: goodreads.com/book/show/3797…

so much gratitude to & reverence for @DrDesThePlanner @ThrivanceGroup and all the folx that have come together to teach/speak/share/participate in the #unurbanist protest. This space is healing, challenging, emboldening, epic.

More from #unurbanist - In the "War on Cars" consider WHO conspired to create "car culture", how BIPOC folx were pushed to adopt it as they were pushed to the periphery, AND how BIPOC folx in resilience, engage with car ownership as an element of cultural pride.

Release the notion that questioning and challenging the process means that BIPOC folks "hate bike lanes" and are "enemies of progress"

*Key Q?s surfaced by @DrDesThePlanner re: purplelining being resistant to regulation -From where do your pop-up/open-streets projects derive accountability? Are these projects, ushered in under the guise of public health subject to the same requirements for community engagement?

Key elements of purplelining 1) procedural erasure, 2) repression, state-sanctioned, 3) centering white comfort, 4) model minority constructionism, 5) resistant to regulatory reforms, 6) upholds and upheld by other symptoms of structural racism. #unurbanist

RSVP now (free) for the Un-Urbanist Assembly: a LIVE 23-hour digital teach-in challenging the legacy of racism in urban planning. I'll host a space to hash out our differences for a whole 23 hours. I hope you'll join us! June 18-19 thrivancegroup.com/unurbanist

for everyone still missing the point.

@DrDesThePlanner Happy Earthstrong sistren!

Y’all.....today’s my birthday!!! Can you believe lil Des is 35?!?!?? What a blessing!