Bodies After Dark (An intersectional Feminist Walk)
This walk is an intersectional feminist city walk designed for everyone. It explores how different bodies move through urban spaces after dark and how power, visibility, and vulnerability shape those movements.Walkers will take individual walks through certain routes in the city at night. During their walk, they create video or voice recordings reflecting on their experience. These recordings capture personal observations, emotions, and bodily responses: where they felt safe or exposed, how they adjusted their pace or route, how lighting, sound, surveillance, or the presence of others affected their movement. (more prompts to reflect on will be shared)The project centers lived experience. Each recording is shaped by the walker’s intersecting identities gender, race, disability, class, age, sexuality, and body type and how these influence their relationship to the city. Rather than aiming for a single narrative, the work gathers many perspectives, allowing differences and contradictions to coexist.After the walk, collected video and voice recordings of individual walks that together reveal how the city is felt, negotiated, and imagined differently. We will listen and reflect together on whose bodies are centered in public space and how cities might be reimagined to support freedom of movement for all.