Getting involved with a local park’s Friends group has been fruitful and challenging. What politics of belonging exist in certain types of spaces of community engagement? How can we build change while accommodating a different, non-colonial vision of time? What is reasonable to require of people? How can joy be kept in this work?
Read MoreWhat could redefining public space and communal engagement with the “outdoors” provide? How does the outdoors become a symbol of Whiteness and a tool of gentrification and capitalism? Considering surveillance and policing, what can be imagined as comfortable outdoor spaces for marginalized communities? What reclamation of outside space has taken place?
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