A fast-paced rundown of innovative programs and projects aimed at expanding audiences and building coalitions through creative advocacy and building bike culture. Including:
Bike Talk radio hour - How independent public radio reaches a wide audience and helps people understand bicycle advocacy
Influencing change with tactical urbanism, ghost bikes, and memorial rides
Crystal City Garage Races - How creative use of unused space is engaging competitive and non-competitive bicyclists in races for fun
Beyond the Color Bar - How Kittie Knox Democratized Bicycling, demonstrating lessons from 130 years ago on how to grow the bicycling movement
Joe Biel is a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker who draws origins, inspiration, and methods from punk rock. He is the author of eight books and hundreds of zines, including his most recent work about lessons that advocates can learn from Kittie Knox to mainstream bicycling... Read More →
On my own time, I write and edit books and zines about the feminist bicycle revolution. At Microcosm, I get to play with a huge variety of books about self-empowerment and social change.
Jam Biking: Bikers should be *heard* and seen, so put a bucket and a cymbal and a cowbell on those handlebars!Radio DJ: BikeTalk on MIT's radio station is an hour-long discussion of the #BikeJoy and #BikeStruggs of our everyday lifeBike Packing: Heading out to parts yet unknown on... Read More →