This study uses participant observation to examine how an all–female collective in Los Angeles uses urban cycling culture as a way to contest inequalities and advocate for social change in communities of color. Bridging the literatures on gentrification and social movements, I examine how the collective uses the bicycle as a unifying tool to draw disparate individuals together and, through the group's practices and rituals, generates a shared sense of collective identity and politicized consciousness embedded within the uneven spatial development of Los Angeles. I demonstrate how this politicized consciousness drives a collective spirit of resistance that challenges gentrification by reimagining and re–embodying space through organized actions and everyday practices. I find that organized anti–gentrification resistance is not merely reactionary, but rather entails pre–figurative action and visioning for space and community. Overall, findings speak more broadly to how communities of color facing exclusion and marginalization make claims to space and community.

中文翻译：

---

两个轮子上的“变革推动者”：在洛杉矶通过骑自行车来维护社区和对抗空间不平等

本研究使用参与者观察来研究洛杉矶的一个全女性集体如何使用城市自行车文化作为对抗不平等和倡导有色人种社区的社会变革的一种方式。将有关绅士化和社会运动的文献联系起来，我研究了集体如何使用自行车作为统一工具将不同的个体聚集在一起，并通过集体的实践和仪式，在不均匀的空间中产生一种共同的集体认同感和政治化意识洛杉矶的发展。我展示了这种政治化的意识如何驱动集体抵抗精神，通过有组织的行动和日常实践重新想象和重新体现空间，挑战士绅化。我发现有组织的反中产阶级化抵抗不仅是反动的，而且需要先行行动和对空间和社区的展望。总体而言，调查结果更广泛地说明了面临排斥和边缘化的有色人种社区如何对空间和社区提出要求。