Stories and Projects
April 2020, with Dinah Gumns for The Radavist
As the coronavirus took hold in New York, volunteers across the city joined mutual aid efforts to help those in need. Self-organized and focused on direct action, mutual aid groups aim to make a difference quickly, and bikes are often essential to their work.
At the peak of the crisis in April, I spent several days biking the city with Dinah Gumns, documenting her work as a volunteer courier. Infections and deaths were spiking, protective equipment was in short supply, and many New Yorkers needed food and help with shopping. Among the mutual aid groups responding to these needs, #NYCPPE sourced medical-grade masks and delivered them directly to verified healthcare workers. Corona Courier coordinated shopping and contactless deliveries for at-risk community members. And nonprofit Make The Road New York provided food assistance, with many deliveries made by their volunteer Bike Brigade. Dinah logged hundreds of miles on deliveries for these groups, crisscrossing a city transformed by the pandemic.
Bicycles were also at the center of discussions related to equity for the city's delivery workers and the use of public space, to which the pandemic brought renewed attention…
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