#blhm

Every Sunday I will post these three doing some sort of activity. If you have any suggestions for an activity comment below! We need more holyness.

Jesus, Hank and Miguel in some tight suits just for the fun of it!

I was not planning to add color to this series but this will be the only exception.

This week has been exhaustive so much I even expressed it in my art. While Miguel and Hank struggle to keep their eyes open, Jesus still keeps smiling and offering his shoulders for us to sleep and question sleep itself haha.

There is a huge problem with education in this country. During the month of #BLHM we shared stories, movements, athletes, inventors, and history related to Black cyclists and mobility justice. When folks say bikes have nothing to do with politics, it's important to look at history and deconstruct how the outdoors and cyclings history is especially rooted in anti-Blackness. It is absolutely political when whiteness has been politically weaponized to create a system that makes laws to exclude Black cyclists from cycling clubs, sport, and community investment (see COLOR BAR/SEGREGATION/REDLINING). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It doesn't take much to go back and read our posts either. Learning history is critical to us examining the racist policies and practices so that we can uproot and deconstruct them now. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Black people do not owe us anything. They do not owe us an explanation to justify their humanity. In fact, WE are without humanity to question their value, we owe them everything and we especially owe them the duty to break down the policies and systems that continue to harm them. There is so much work to do. Keep doing it. Don't get apathetic. Stay activated. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #cyclistazine #bikes #cycling #cyclinghistory #bikehistory #blackbikesmatter #resistance #shredthepatriarchy #BipocsOfCycling #bikingdiversity #representationmatters #americanhistory #sportshistory #race #politics #cyclingsport #blackathletes #blackcycling https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLn-o6lkgi/?utm_medium=tumblr

As we continue to educate ourselves and advocate for the dismantling of white supremacy and structural racism, we must also acknowledge that city planning is inherently discriminatory in practice. During #BLHM we shared some of the most profound books on the issues of race and justice in city planning and urban design. Please use this as a reminder to constantly be doing the work of educating yourselves and listen to Black voices on issues of mobility justice and planning. This is critical especially in the time of a pandemic, open streets, and climate change looming over us that structural racism will exacerbate on Black lives. Let’s keep working, we have a lot to undo. 📚 There Goes the ‘Hood, by Lance Freeman, 2006 Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, by Craig Anthony Arnold, 2007 Aesthetics of Equity, by Craig Wilkins, 2007 Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by Victoria Kaplan, 2006 The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power, by Melvin Mitchell , 2002 Urban Planning and the African-American Community, by June Manning Thomas, 1997 Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas, 1997 Planning Atlanta, by Harley F. Etienne and Barbara Faga, 2015 The Black Metropolis in the 21st Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007 Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007 Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans, 2003 Race, Poverty, and American Cities, by John Charles Boger, 1993 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, 1962 Everything from David Harvey The Philadelphia Negro, by W.E.B. Dubois, 1896. 📚 Have planning book recs written by Black planners? Share with us! 📚 #cyclistazine #blackhistory #cityplanning #urbanplanning #books #americanhistory #blackcyclinghistory #cityplanningbooks #urbanist #citycycling #urbanplanning #transportation #transit #redlining #urbanism https://www.instagram.com/p/CBD1tgQlMwt/?utm_medium=tumblr