NYC streets have Honorary Street Names proposed by different local community leaders. This presentation centers on an area between Washington Heights and Inwood, Manhattan, and looks at the honorary names. It includes a feminist perspective, in line with the mappers’ collective Geochicas, to ask what’s in these names, why they should be part of OSM, and how the community can learn by visualizing the names. Finally, it reflects on the importance of extending the exercise to NYC in general.
Speaker
Silvia Rivera Alfaro is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Sociolinguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation intertwines linguistic geography and feminist linguistics. She is part of Indisciplinadxs: Feminist Linguistics and Geochicas.
