It’s so
hard to envision a world in which you don’t have choice but to carry out your
existence in a space of exclusion. Many people groups around the world live
their day to day lives living in exclusionary spaces. In Lorraine Young’s piece
about street children in Uganda she explores how homeless children who attempt
to exist in the public spaces of urban areas are often marginalized and dismissed
in spaces that serve the “public” that they should be a part of. To resist this
type pf discrimination these children are forced to live in fringe areas that most
people deem dangerous. These places really aren’t fit for living but there is
little choice in the matter.
This
type discrimination/resistance doesn’t only exist in destitute areas and
nations. Here in the United States there are people groups who find themselves
marginalized to the point where they’re excluded from public spaces. How our
public space is organized is not always inclusive of everyone. Trans/gender
fluid individuals often have a difficult time being comfortable being themselves
in a public space. In the link below Adrian Adams explains how public space can
exclude many people in the transgender community. Even small things like
bathroom signs and pronoun usage can create exclusion in public space.
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