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Story of Liisbeth – the initiator of the book:When I started to work as a messenger, there were mostly cis- males working in this job in Leipzig, Germany. The community was very welcoming and helpful, but the job had challenges and still no one really could understand the struggle I was going through. I didn’t have people to talk to who shared my experiences that I, as a woman, did. I wrote about and drew down each situation that made me feel uncomfortable. After all the years, my notebooks were filled with different experiences, so I knew this is something that needed to be made public. Not just my story – but the stories of many, many under-represented messengers, struggling with same things.Meeting Giulia – the illustrator for this book who’s brought to life these tales in punky drawings – was the push I needed to start this book and get the stories out there. After all, it’s not just a problem that the messenger community is struggling with, but it is a much bigger problem in our society.
Story of Giulia – the illustrator of the book:
I have to say, before I started this project I was quite distant from the world of bike messengers. It's a culture that wasn’t very present to me in my home country of Italy and I was confronted with only when I came to live in Germany.
When I met Liisbeth, I was in a specific period of my life where I was trying to confronting myself about the topic of abuse and harassment, but I was alone with it and I didn’t have people to talk to about it. Talking to Liisbeth about her project gave me the impetus to do something about this issue. Even though I wasn't a bike messenger, I remembered how many times in my life I was denied jobs I was interested in just because I was a woman. So I connected with the suffering that Liisbeth was trying to highlight, and I wanted to get involved with the project, 100%. From there, I felt less alone, and more courageous speaking out on this issue, and I hope that this book can be a tool for personal reflection and on the society, we live in, in an effort to give to the wave of change we are now (starting to) ride.
You can hear the whole reading in Sphere radio container from here.
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