Women Redraw London tube map with women's names.

Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson to redraw London tube map with women's names.

Suggestions sought for public history project inspired by similar map of New York led by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Londoners Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson are spearheading a project to reimagine the city’s iconic tube map, by renaming all 270 stops after the women and non-binary people who have shaped the history of each pocket of the capital.

Eddo-Lodge, author of the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race, and the actor and activist Watson, were inspired by a similar project in the book Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, which featured a New York City subway map with all the stations renamed after great women. Both Solnit and Schapiro are working with Eddo-Lodge and Watson to help create the City of Women London.

❝ How does it impact our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are named after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do we move through when streets and parks and statues and bridges are gendered … and it’s usually one gender, and not another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom speak of and to women? ❞ asked Solnit in 2019, after a new version of the New York map was released with new names including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cardi B.

Pic by Rebecca Solnit, Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson. Composite: Trent Davis Bailey, Suki Dhanda, Getty

Curator @munllonch

#coachabilityfoundation

#RebeccaSolnit #ReniEddoLodge #EmmaWatson #london #tube #londontube

#gendergap #genderequality #equality #diversity #womeninbusiness #womensupportingwomen #leadership #womeninstem #feminism #genderpaygap #gender #genderbias #womenempowerment #empoweringwomen #genderequity #women #feminist #genderparity #equalpay #stemgirls #empowerment #diversityinclusion #inclusion