Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.
I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.
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It's so funny how for a lot of people you might ask "do they feel safe walking down the street?" And you can focus on how maybe they have a privileged identity that makes them not afraid of walking around this or that neighborhood
But the actual answer for a huge proportion of this country is simply "they don't" because unwalkable suburbia means literally they are never walking down a street that drive from a house to a parking lot and do not ever walk "down a street"
Wild
having lived basically right next to downtown all my life, every time i've been out to suburbs to see family or family friends feels so... alien, to me. i'm so used to being able to walk down the street in the first place
My experience living in Baltimore for a few years was mostly sort of the opposite of your first sentence. Privileged, mostly but not exclusively white people from the County or the L being actually afraid of "dangerous" (Black) neighborhoods like the lovely one where I lived
Living in the suburbs, it's facts! There's a little bubble where I feel safe because I've been here so long and I know every weird move a car can pull and how to cut through places to avoid the street entirely, but outside of that it's terrifying trying to like, ride a bike somewhere.
