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''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''


==Related Topics: [[Safer Space]] & [[Patriarchy and Bicycle Repair]]==
==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.


Naming this sort of event can be challenging, and you'll want to think carefully about who you may be including or excluding.   
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:


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.
*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


Ideally, the goal is for an entire collective to participate in a safer space agreement at all times.


Related Topics: [[Safer Space]] & [[Patriarchy and Bicycle Repair]]
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.


=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)]]
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*[[Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society]] (Edmonton)
*[[Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society]] (Edmonton)
*FreeRide Montpelier
*FreeRide Montpelier
*[[PEDAL]] (also not in the [[title=Community_Bicycle_Organizations|commuity bike shops list]])
*[[Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative]] (Nanaimo)
*[[Hub City Cycles Community Co-operative]] (Nanaimo)


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==Comments==
=Comments=
I sent an [http://lists.bikecollectives.org/htdig.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.org/2016-February/056088.html email on the Think Tank recently] that only barely made a mention of safer space programs, but a lot of what I talked about was based on years of thinking about how to make bike collectives more accessible to a wider variety of people, and probably a fair bit of wheel reinvention.  To summarize, a tautology: '''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.  '''
 
Off the top of my head, and I'm happy to expand on any of these bullet points:
 
* access to basic food
* if music, multicultural music
* pedagogically-oriented learning environment
* value all work, including admin work
* safer space training for core volunteers
* upholding clear shop guidelines and boundaries for appropriate behavior
* providing an option for clearly defined volunteer tasks
* informative, accessible website
* have contact info for a mediator available
* physical shop safety
* being predictably and punctually open
* having a functioning, physical land line telephone in the shop
 


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.  --[[User:Angel|Angel York]] ([[User talk:Angel|talk]]) 11:59, 16 February 2016 (PST)
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)

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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)