Bicycle/Race Quotes

“We direct vehicular contempt aimlessly, striking at random, flailing horsepower like peacock's tails and instantly become defensive when this violence is named.”
― Adonia E. Lugo, Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

“Focusing on urban design, rather than people who inhabit and produce places, all too easily naturalizes their market-driven displacement.”
― Adonia E. Lugo, Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

“Plenty of people advocate for sustainability systems like bike infrastructure without considering the racism and wealth inequality embedded in how we plan and use urban space.”
― Adonia E. Lugo, Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

“Deep in the seas of subdivisions, there are parks where adobes rot.”
― Adonia E. Lugo, Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

“In the US imagination, Southern California is a still-wet canvas where seekers who make their way here can paint whatever picture they like against a backdrop of natural beauty. My California is different. I grew up feeling watched by ghosts.”
― Adonia E. Lugo, Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance