ENVSIONING A CITY FOR ALL FLÂNEUSE

The city exists in layers. Layers of Architecture, layers of streets laid down on the terrain, layers of society, beliefs, dreams, that float above and intermingle with the physicality of space. So too do beleifs and normatives lay upon people, impressed through glances, sneers, comments, violence, agression, harassment, and also the internalized voices of repression.

Voices whether they come from neighbours. paedestrians, parents, or our own mind, tell us what it means to be woman, to be a herione who we ought to be. When this is misaligned with our ow experience, we exist in a constant state of battle - conscious or not. We press against ideas that negate us.

We are here, but not here. How to be here, then, just as our selves? How to fill the city with

LAGOSIAN REVERIE (Pages 24 - 28)

Written by: Sy BakareIgene