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AG2020_1880469 or Thrives in the Sun

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Untitled (Thrives in the Sun), 2000. A print available through the Sunny Project, Sun Pours Daylong, an exhibition and online print sale of Florida photography by Florida photographers.

Sun Pours Daylong runs from July 24 through August 30, 2020, and is on view in the Miami Design District; was organized by Gesi Schilling, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Adler Guerrier.

The clear burning light of the sun pours daylong into the saw grass and is lost there, soaked up, never given back. Only the water flashes and glints. The grass yields nothing.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades : River of Grass

Feminist City, Leslie Kern

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On creating the non-sexist city. Kern’s article in the Guardian.

society’s historical and ongoing ideas about the proper gender roles for men and women (organised along a narrow binary) are built right into our cities – and they still matter. They matter to me as a mother. They matter to me as a busy professor who often finds herself in strange cities, wondering if it’s OK to pop into the neighbourhood pub alone. Ask any woman who’s tried to bring a pram on to a bus, breastfeed in a park, or go for a jog at night. She intuitively understands the message the city sends her: this place is not for you.

Yet the city can be a place of great freedom. The anonymity of urban life breeds possibilities easily stifled in a claustrophobic small town or suburban enclave. Education, work, pleasure, politics: the city broadens our horizons and gives us choices our foremothers never had. Despite its hostilities, it remains our best hope for radical change.

Book by Verso.