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Angela Crow
@angelawcrow.bsky.social
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I am interested in how people advocate for a shift away from car-centric infrastructure. I write about design, UX and stories of freedom of movement from a genre and literacy studies foundation.
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No Kings Rally in Virginia. It was a really good turnout.
A person holding a sign that reads “no kings. Only queens. People standing in the shade listening to speakers on court house steps. Sign reads “freedom of press, speech, assembly. People dressed up in retro costumes. No kings as their hats. Standing with a person in striped overalls with a sign that says unpaid peaceful protester. An adult with a toddler. The adult is carrying a poster.
October 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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August at my house…
A deer resting on the green stuff that passes for grass. She’s in the middle of the picture, and there’s a stripe of sun on one side of her and she’s in the shade on the other. At the back of the picture, there are trees. Another deer, at the base of a tree. He’s on the right side of the image. In the background are trees in the foreground is grass. A tiny bunny in the middle of leaves and different kinds of greens. Shino the Italian greyhound is in the middle of an image. He is in the gutter of a street, and there is green grass on one side, a curb and asphalt on the other.
August 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Friday vibes with Shino the #italiangreyhound
Italian Greyhound rust and white colored, with his nose in the white blankets, and he’s asleep. Shino the Italian Greyhound, stretched out, an image from overhead, sleeping in white blankets.
July 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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In 2015, we had the experience of using the NL paper maps for bike routes. By 2017, it was available on an app, and now in google maps. Buying the maps meant arriving in Utrecht before the AAA equivalent closed, purchasing them there, and then learning to see main routes.
Not a main bicycling route in the NL. A route through a farm with cows watching us. There’s a concrete six foot route — like a sidewalk running from top left to bottom right in this image. And there are three or four black and white cows hanging out on the side of the concrete. The route is an adventure with cow pies. Not a main bicycling route in the NL. A route through a farm with cows watching us. There’s a concrete six foot route — like a sidewalk running from top left to bottom right in this image. And there are two cows laying down on the left side of the image, watching us and one cow on the right side of the bike path is The concrete is an adventure with cow pies, and there are trees lining the route, and a farm field beyond.
June 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Cool! I dream of the day when a bike class rewards a kid for learning how to pick up a friend in classic NL dinking style, and drop them off at a train station without slowing down much. Instead all of my bike teaching skills in the states are about avoiding dangerous encounters with people in cars.
Woman on her way to the train station in Utrecht. Or so I imagine. There’s a person stopped in a green jacket on their bike, and then this fellow with a woman on the back of the bike, with a fully loaded hiking backpack, dinking on the back of the bike. It’s early morning on a bicycling road. A person catching a ride on the back of a bike with a friend in Amsterdam. The person is dressed in a black suit jacket, rolled up jeans, and chelsea boots. They are on a road for bicycles, and there are separated roads for people driving cars.
May 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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My students wanted to have the gorilla versus man discussion; I woke up missing the animals from my kidhood. That impossible situation of missing a place that always evokes a regime state childhood while watching a regime state attempt here.
This is a favorite pic of a water buffalo standing in the middle of the asphalt road, a branch still strewn around its neck, staring at the approaching car. Sweet. Picture of a monkey, on a green roof near Durban. Pic of a baboon with her kid, walking on the asphalt. Tall grass in the background. Sweet pic of a giraffe looking at the camera. One ear out, one ear back. a beauty.
May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Wouldn’t it be cool, if on a Sunday morning, my religious neighbors would head out to church on their bikes instead of in their SUVs. There’s a family, always racing, always 10 minutes late, always a danger and a menace to me and my pup. You’d think, after hundreds of Sundays, they’d learn.
Person on a bike in heels and a red dress. Image from behind; the black bike is on red asphalt, with white lines marking the intersection.
April 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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My guy is at about 680 weeks right now, and a very good pup.
Pic of Shino the Italian Greyhound. He’s brownish/rustish with a white muzzle, on a white blanket, on a couch. He’s the majority of the portrait photo, with his butt closest to the camera and his head further away.
March 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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When I’m in the NL, I try to get at least one photo a day of a person in heels on a bicycle. Each of these bikes…so feasible for day to day moves.
Person in heels, in the NL on a bike. (Black clothes, grey heeled boots, maybe 2 inch heels). On a bike path, with two others ahead. Photo credit Crow. Woman on a bike, wearing light aqua top and grey slacks. Brown heels, maybe an inch and a half. A person entering the frame, on a red bike. Photo taken by Crow in the Netherlands. A person in a short sleeve shirt, black pants and two inch boot heels on a bike in the Netherlands. A van behind them. Photo credit: Crow Person on a bicycle in the Netherlands, looks like the back wheel is kind of flat. carrying a jacket on one handle bar, and one inch black heel boots. Photo credit: Crow
March 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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On this International Women’s Day, I am longing for safe enough infrastructure to live my life as this woman is, taking her dog for a run, on a bike, in the Netherlands.
A woman on a bicycle in the center of the image. It’s an upright safety bike, and she is carrying both a bag full of something (maybe groceries) that is somehow attached to the handle bar, and she is holding a leash for her setter dog who is running along side. In the background is a longline of box hedges squared off and acting as a fence.
March 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Wednesday.
A person, bent over their bicycle, in a big winter coat, cycling on a road in Amsterdam. The bicyclist is on the right and centered, in that rule of thirds way, the coat is greenish brown; the bike is an upright bike. There are bollards on one side and people in the background in the top third.
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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There are days when I wish I were living in the NL, and these were my views. Once you know the impact of safer road infrastructures, it’s hard to inhabit the unsafe roads.
Interior of a building in the NL, there are two arches intersecting in the middle of the image, and then another arch at the bottom of the image. Cream ceiling, beige arches. An image of a bridge in the NL for bicyclists, One arch in the center, white, seen from the side so the arch is in the cables that are attached to the center structure. I need to work on my architecture vocab!
February 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I take pictures of the ways people use this bike rack because it was purchased and installed before bicyclists explained to the powers that be about how bike racks should be chosen. They listened; the building next door has the preferred option. They also didn’t replace this bike rack.
An orange bike with a rack — looks vaguely like a mountain bike with more upright handlebars. It’s sitting in the middle of a badly designed bike rack parking, a large rectangle with tiny bars along one side. This bike rack can accommodate six bikes. One on each side.
February 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Hoping for a snow day tomorrow…maybe 8 inches so far.
Picture of a greyhound statue with a triangle cap of snow on its head, next to a stairway. Snow everywhere.
February 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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So I’m mulling my summer. I would love to be on a bike trip in the NL.
The photo has a diagonal line of a canal wall running from top left to bottom right. A cargo bike is perched precariously on the wall, leaning over as if it will fall into the water. The interior of the cargo barrow is showing, lined with wood and sporting some yellow leaves. The water has a floating layer of yellow fall leaves. In the background, at street level, are several parked bicycles. Also yellow fall leaves on the pavement. Two women are at a bicycle road stop sign; the light has just turned green. A person in blue gear with panniers is moving forward; the person with a child carrier on the back is just pushing off from the light post. The road is read at the intersection, marking lanes, and on the other side of the stop are several people, waiting for a green light.
February 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Saturday morning writing with Shino and these licorice sweets. I never have been a fan of licorice, but I’m exploring whether tastes change with growing older, and these were my most recent try. That I love them is shocking to me.
Shino, an Italian greyhound is looking at the camera, resting on blue and white bedding. He is snuggled under a black and white blanket. His coloring is rust/brown on his forehead and ears, and he has an old guy’s white muzzle. An image of a bag of “Nordic Sweets” with an image of the sweets themselves. The bag is blue, white, and has a band of brown across its middle, with an image of the sweets themselves. The package indicates weight (5 oz).
February 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Shino has been searching for a second treat for 5 minutes even though I gave him his second treat. My error was that I allowed too much time to elapse between the first and the second, so he’s back to treat one in his mind, and therefore, he should get another. Time is a tricky devil.
A picture of an older rust/grey Italian greyhound - looking imploringly at someone. He is resting on a light blue duvet and a white blanket with black dotted lines. He takes up the majority of the image.
February 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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In the middle of all the things, I’m dreaming of a trip this summer to the Netherlands.
A rainy day in the NL. The image is of a canal, two docks on either side of the canal, and a person in a neon raincoat rotating a mechanism that is connected to a chain, and the chain pulls the boat from one side of the canal to the other. You can see the empty boat coming towards the dock, and on the dock are two bikes loaded down with full panniers for a road trip. The paniers and bags re colorful, and some are covered for the rain.
February 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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What this day feels like: big heavy polluting objects/barriers between me and my desire for forward motion. I guess I’ll be trying to find the gap.
Picture of NYC traffic, 2016, a person on a bicycle trying to move between the cars. The light is green for the person on a bike; the people in cars are bumper to bumper, and blocking their intersection. The person on the bike is fitting between the tight distances of the motor vehicles.
January 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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It’s Monday morning; I’m about to get in a car and drive on a highway to work. I dream instead of infrastructure robust enough that I could pack my gear in the panniers, and make my way to my job by bike, bus, and train. I’d like choices especially as I age. #bicycle #OldWomanMoves.
Image of an older woman in Amsterdam moving towards the ferry that has arrived. She’s wearing a black jacket, ear muffs and is on an upright bike. In the background is a crowd of people also moving on to the ferry by bicycle
January 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Yes! Here’s mine. Having been a licensed safety instructor for a bit, I realize that most of my bike skills are about avoiding being hit by people driving cars. In the NL, I take aspirational literacy pics, and this skill is high on my list. I want to steer with one hand while carrying groceries.
Person on an upright bicycle, a plum colored jacket, steering with one hand, carrying a bag of groceries (including flowers) with the other.
January 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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It’s winter, and I know that I want to live in a space where I can be my older self, wearing a warm coat, on an upright bike, moving safely about town. I’m not likely to want the hat, but everything else? Yes.

#bicycling #mobilityChoices
A person with grey hair and a hat, wearing a black long coat, riding ann upright bike. The view is from behind.
January 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I’m looking for an insta alternative — it helps to know ahead of time that Pixelfed functions like mastadon. I was thinking about going to a straight up image space like glass.photo. Recommendations? Also, I’m looking for inspiration for what to have Moo Deng saying on this card…
Blue-ish baby hippo screen print, mouth open, as if saying something. It’s printed onto a card, and the card is on a beige background.
January 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Shino and I are mulling Saturday walks, with the possibility of temps above 35 for the first time in a couple weeks.
An #italiangreyhound wrapped in a white blanket, staring at the camera. He’s an older pup with grey around his muzzle, one ear out, one ear under the blanket.
January 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Shino, the #ItalianGreyhound, hasn’t loved temps below freezing. The sweet old pup has trouble breathing outdoors when it’s this cold and makes sure I understand how reluctant he is to put on the warm layers I ask him to wear.
Shino, bundled up for the outdoors in a winter coat, resting on the bed, which has a cream colored blanket under him, and vague pillows in the background. Shino is an italian greyhound.
January 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM