#CiclismoSinMachismo: The Geographies of Latin American Feminist Cycling Activism

Over the past decade, multiple trajectories of feminist thought and praxis have converged in Latin America in a historical moment characterized by mass mobilization, radicality, heterogeneity, and internationalism. Cities of the region have been swept by successive waves of feminist mobilization that challenge traditional notions of space and gender. Meanwhile, urban activism has expanded in Latin America, including a cycling activist movement that has configured a translocal space of exchange and circulation of discourses, knowledges, and practices around urban mobility. This article explores the meeting of feminism and cycling activism and discusses a resulting double movement: on one hand, a critique of the patriarchal order of the city as experienced in and through mobility; on the other, a challenge to the hegemonic discourses and practices of cycling activism. In doing so, feminist cycling activists are drawing cycling and mobility into the constellation of feminist issues that configure the current Latin American feminist movement. The article outlines two strategies women employ to do so: cultivating political transversality and generating conditions of possibility through the production of feminist-cyclist spatialities.