Groomed for Compliance: On Erin Williams’s Commute

A commute is, at once, near universal and hyper-specific. Anyone who works outside the home has one—the experience is so common, it’s banal. Yet each individual’s journey is entirely unique to where they work and live. Regardless of the path taken, in the placelessness of being between places, the mind often wanders. But on public transportation, alone alongside others, there can be more intrusions into this private mental space than trips made other ways, especially while traveling in a female body.

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