{"id":1116,"date":"2022-04-26T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/?page_id=1116"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T12:58:22","slug":"still-i-ride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/projects\/showcase\/still-i-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Still I Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Dulce Pedroso<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a woman of colour, cycling can mean a double cloak of invisibility. Her experience is already often erased in society, which privileges whiteness and maleness, and she is not seen in cycling representations, which has tended to peddle narrow narratives about cycling and cyclists. If you already experience othering because of your gender and race, the decision to cycle in a car dominant culture may seem like choosing to be further marginalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/04\/Dulce_project-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"A woman cycling is superimposed on a city background, with a ribbon of a route showing her navigating over a bridge, and around queues of stationary traffic. As she leaps a building, a bird asks 'Is she even aerodynamic?'\" class=\"wp-image-1119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/04\/Dulce_project-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/04\/Dulce_project-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/04\/Dulce_project-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/04\/Dulce_project-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2022\/04\/Dulce_project-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Image: Dulce Pedroso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Still I Ride \u2013 How Women of Colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling\u2019 applies a critical discourse analysis lens into representation, gender and race in cycling. The mobile interviews conducted with nine women focused on representations of cyclists as well as on how material things \u2013 gear and kit, for example \u2013 and activities \u2013 such as training trips to Mallorca&nbsp; \u2013 reinforce dominant discourses in cycling and how these entangle with discourses around gender and race. The project uncovers how gender in cycling is often experienced in&nbsp; fairly material and practical terms (when and how you cycle and what kit and gear is available or considered appropriate), race and ethnicity-based exclusion may manifest in a feeling of not belonging (based on who you are). When the two compound with the dominant cycling culture, this can lead to discursive exclusion encapsulated in the comment Shu, a road cyclist in London, received from a white male cyclist: \u201cis your hijab even aerodynamic?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project borrows from cultural, intersectional and black feminist theories to account for different ways women of colour, as an underrepresented group in cycling, experience, negotiate and challenge dominant discourses. The interviews were produced into podcast episodes, which are available to listen on the Active Travel podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information: see <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/still-i-ride-how-women-of-colour-are-challenging-discourses-in-and-through-cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dulce&#8217;s blog post<\/a> which also links to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/ata-podcast\/episodes\/still-i-ride-1-how-women-of-colour-are-challenging-discourse\" target=\"_blank\">podcast episode 1<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/ata-podcast\/episodes\/still-i-ride-2-how-women-of-colour-are-challenging-discourse\" target=\"_blank\">episode 2<\/a> about her research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dulce Pedroso For a woman of colour, cycling can mean a double cloak of invisibility. Her experience is already often erased in society, which privileges whiteness and maleness, and she is not seen in cycling representations, which has tended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"parent":1105,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116\/revisions\/1133"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}