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[[Category:Women and Trans Program Community Bicycle Organizations]]
[[Category:Women and Trans Program Community Bicycle Organizations]]
[[Category:Equity]]


''please see our [[Talk:Women and Trans Programs|talk page]] for what is needed on this page and for what projects people have claimed''
''please see our [[Talk:Women and Trans Programs|talk page]] for what is needed on this page and for what projects people have claimed''


===Why Safer Spaces are Important!===
==General Information==
Ideally, the goal is for an entire collective to participate in a safer space agreement at all times.  Every bicycle space unless otherwise stated is a [http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/08/19/the-national-push-to-close-the-cycling-gender-gap/ de facto] "boys club" and many femme / trans folks report feeling more comfortable in safer spaces designed specifically for them.


For many of us on this wiki, this conversation is old hat. For anyone joining in and being curious about the ''why'' of WTF/FTW/W&T/Women's safer spaces, this space will serve as a means of understanding the need. Even if every single moment in a bike collective was filled with people striving toward a safer space as best they could, there would still be a need for WTF night because the people who show up couldn't be expected to know that.
Naming this sort of event can be challenging, and you'll want to think carefully about who you may be including or excluding.  Language that has been used for programs like these include:


'''the more you do to make a space accessible to more people, the less it will be exclusively the default demographic that shows up and sticks around.  '''
*Folx with marginalized genders/identities
*Welcoming diversity: women and queer-positive people; two-spirited, intersex, and trans inclusive
*Women & Trans
*Women, Trans, & Femme
*Women, Trans, & Friends
*Women, Trans and Gender Non-Binary
*Womxn-identified, Trans*, and Non-binary people


A good page with an okay primer as to why one might need/want safer spaces is [[Patriarchy and Bicycle Repair]].


Suffice it to say that every bicycle space unless otherwise stated is a de facto "boys club" and many femme / trans folks report feeling more comfortable in safer spaces designed specifically for them.
Related Topics: [[Safer Space]] & [[Patriarchy and Bicycle Repair]]


Ideally, the goal is for an entire collective to participate in a safer space agreement at all times.
Edmonton does a good job of covering some [http://edmontonbikes.ca/services/bikeworks/women-transgender-program/ basic Q&A] surrounding their variation on this type of program.  [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ql2hjpoviuv3nnt/How%20to%20Gender%20v2-1.pdf?dl=0 Here], a church does a comprehensive gender 101.
====Online Resources====
 
'''Video''' made by grease rag in Minneapolis about the need for W&T nights:
* [https://vimeo.com/35672630 https://vimeo.com/35672630]
 
'''Comics''':
* [http://www.robot-hugs.com/workplace/ http://www.robot-hugs.com/workplace/]
* [http://www.robot-hugs.com/but-men/ http://www.robot-hugs.com/but-men/]
 
An online discussion of '''Emotional Labor''':
* [/https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0UUYL6kaNeBTDBRbkJkeUtabEk/view?pref=2&pli=1 The Metafilter Thread Condensed PDF]


=Community Bicycle Programs with Women And Trans (sometimes femme) safer spaces=
=Community Bicycle Programs with Women And Trans (sometimes femme) safer spaces=
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==Canada==
==Canada==
*[[Bike Kitchen (Vancouver)]]  
*[[Bike Kitchen (Vancouver)]]  
 
*[[Kickstand Community Bikes|Kickstand (Vancouver)]]
*[[Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative]] (Nanaimo)
*[[Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative]] (Nanaimo)
*[[Our Community Bikes]]  
*[[Our Community Bikes]] / PEDAL (Vancouver)
*[[Bike Dump]]  
*[[Bike Dump]]  
*[[Recycle Cycles (Kitchener, ON, Canada)]]
*[[Recycle Cycles (Kitchener, ON, Canada)]]
*[[Bike Pirates]] (Toronto)
*[[Bike Pirates]] (Toronto)
*[[Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society]] (Edmonton)
*[[Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society]] (Edmonton)
*FreeRide Montpelier
*[[Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative]] (Nanaimo)


*[[PEDAL]] (also not in the [[title=Community_Bicycle_Organizations|commuity bike shops list]])
*[[Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative]] (Nanaimo)
==Europe==
==Europe==
*[[Pedallers' Arms]] (Leeds)
*[[Pedallers' Arms]] (Leeds)
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*http://greaserag.org/
*http://greaserag.org/
*[[Third Hand Bicycle Cooperative]] (Columbus)
*[[Third Hand Bicycle Cooperative]] (Columbus)
*Fargo/Moorhead bike collective in ND-USA


===west coast===
===west coast===
*[https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Bike_Church_%28Santa_Cruz,_CA,_USA%29 Bike Church] (Santa Cruz, CA)
*[https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bike_Farm Bike Farm] (Portland, OR)
*http://bikekitchen.org/programs-membership/
*http://bikekitchen.org/programs-membership/
 
*'''[https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bikery_%28Oakland,_CA,_USA%29 The Bikery]''' (Oakland, CA)
*[https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Davis_Bike_Collective Davis Bike Collective] (Davis, CA)
*[[Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen]] (Sacramento)
*[[Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen]] (Sacramento)
*[[San Francisco Yellow Bike Project]] (San Francisco)
*[[San Francisco Yellow Bike Project]] (San Francisco)


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*[[1304 Bikes]]  (Raleigh)
*[[1304 Bikes]]  (Raleigh)
*[[Bike City Recyclery]] (Fayetteville)
*[[Bike City Recyclery]] (Fayetteville)
=Comments=
Even if every single moment in a bike collective was filled with people striving toward a safer space as best they could, there would still be a need for WTF night because the people who show up couldn't be expected to know that.  Until I understood that, I spent a long time feeling uncomfortable about the concept of WTF nights because I believed (and continue to believe, actually) that it puts the burden of the work of thinking about issues surrounding equality largely on the hosts of the WTF nights, and then the rest of the collective often only thinks about [[Safer Space|safer spaces]] at their convenience, when I'd rather see every single member of a collective taking that burden on together and making every moment as much of a safer space as WTF nights.  --[[User:Angel|Angel York]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 11:59, 16 February 2016 (PST)

Latest revision as of 21:38, 28 July 2023


please see our talk page for what is needed on this page and for what projects people have claimed

General Information

Ideally, the goal is for an entire collective to participate in a safer space agreement at all times. Every bicycle space unless otherwise stated is a de facto "boys club" and many femme / trans folks report feeling more comfortable in safer spaces designed specifically for them.

Naming this sort of event can be challenging, and you'll want to think carefully about who you may be including or excluding. Language that has been used for programs like these include:

  • Folx with marginalized genders/identities
  • Welcoming diversity: women and queer-positive people; two-spirited, intersex, and trans inclusive
  • Women & Trans
  • Women, Trans, & Femme
  • Women, Trans, & Friends
  • Women, Trans and Gender Non-Binary
  • Womxn-identified, Trans*, and Non-binary people


Related Topics: Safer Space & Patriarchy and Bicycle Repair

Edmonton does a good job of covering some basic Q&A surrounding their variation on this type of program. Here, a church does a comprehensive gender 101.

Community Bicycle Programs with Women And Trans (sometimes femme) safer spaces

at least according to our fine wiki and WTF Cycles PHL circa Feb 2016

Canada

Europe

USA By Region

east coast

midwest

west coast

southwest

deep south


Comments

Even if every single moment in a bike collective was filled with people striving toward a safer space as best they could, there would still be a need for WTF night because the people who show up couldn't be expected to know that. Until I understood that, I spent a long time feeling uncomfortable about the concept of WTF nights because I believed (and continue to believe, actually) that it puts the burden of the work of thinking about issues surrounding equality largely on the hosts of the WTF nights, and then the rest of the collective often only thinks about safer spaces at their convenience, when I'd rather see every single member of a collective taking that burden on together and making every moment as much of a safer space as WTF nights. --Angel York (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2016 (PST)

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