Cairo: Women-only metro carriages
Conversations have a unique spice when they take place in spaces exclusively reserved for women. Every place has its own impact, of course, so what goes on in beauty salons is obviously different from women’s clinics.
But what if conversations are to take place on a mobile, rather than fixed, space?
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Conversations have a unique spice when they take place in spaces exclusively reserved for women. Every place has its own impact, of course, so what goes on in beauty salons is obviously different from women’s clinics.
But what if conversations are to take place on a mobile, rather than fixed, space?
I’m writing from the women-only carriages in the metro of Egypt’s capital, Cairo. Women from all classes and walks of life enter and leave this carriage in the same way regardless of their mood or physical and mental experience. The women-only carriage in Cairo’s metro is a medium that allows for excellent implementation of socialist ideals. Underground, all women are equal regardless of the vehicles that transport them over ground due to the over-crowded nature of the place. It is at the moment they go underground that they become equal as if this was the original order of things.
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