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It was such an honor to be invited to the latest iteration of the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative’s (TUMI) “Women Mobilize Women” conference held at the Leipziger Kongresshalle on May 23rd, 2023. For the first time after the COVID-19 pandemic, I did have the chance to meet up once again with my colleagues and friends in the field of Sustainable Mobility and to get to meet new colleagues from all over the globe.
Out of dozens if not hundreds of international conferences tackling the issues of Sustainable Mobility and the related aspects of urbanity, TUMI’s conference provides a rare opportunity to meet Women leaders and researchers in the field of mobility. It also provides a much-needed platform for like-minded folks and supporters of making the case for gender-sensitive mobility solutions and research, especially in the post-COVID-19 world.
To reiterate the words of Christine Toetzke, the director general for the departments of Asia; South Eastern and Eastern Europe; Middle East, and Latin America at the German Ministry for International Cooperation (BMZ), we need to keep on restating the case for “why we need feminist voices for gender transformative planning”. We need to, according to Toetzke, try to explain all over again why feminism is important, particularly to urban transport and city planners. It is important we are committed to enabli