Jackie Rivera

Did you know... 🌟 If you have a family history of Breast Cancer, your Top Surgery might need to be performed by an Oncological surgeon? . Neither did I, until my pre-op appointment last Friday. 😅 . The good news is that it's still happening! The disappointing news is that it may be delayed! 🤥 . So its actually even more significant for me to get my recovery costs covered because it may be a longer timeline than I very carefully planned for. . Thank you to everyone who has donated already - the other good news is I'm only $1302 away from my goal! This amounts to roughly 1 month of rent for me and would be a tremendous relief to know I was covered as I navigate when I'll be able to work again. . Links to donate are in my bio - and I'll keep you all posted on the results of my Breast Cancer Screening. venmo: @Jackie -Rivera Spot.fund/JackieTopSurgery

THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭 to everyone who has donated so far... . I have a little over a month to raise $2,739 to hit my 6K goal by my surgery date on May 28th. . Please send this around to your networks and community who are supporting access to trans health care. . Venmo is preferred: @Jackie -Rivera but you can also donate to my spotfund: spot.fund/jackietopsurgery also linked in bio. . Thank you so much for your support! It has been so affirming to receive so much generosity and care and encouragement.💛

🌟MAJOR LIFE UPDATE!!🌟 . I'm getting Top Surgery! . Please donate to my recovery fund at either my venmo: @Jackie -Rivera or I've set up a spotfund link in my bio: http://spot.fund/JackieTopSurgery . I've decided to launch my campaign the week of #tdov, and on my Mom's Birthday - in honor of how much support and care she has offered me through my entire gender journey. Thank you @raquel.rivera54 - I am so blessed to have your love and support to self-educate and stand so actively with me. . Now, friends... I ask that you share my campaign with anyone you know looking to directly support trans people during this time - I've written out my story on slide 2 to share. . This was a tremendously vulnerable thing to do for me, publicly, so thank you for your grace and support. 🥺

This year our Ghost Bike Fellowship inspired hyperlocal action in the movement for Safe Streets with creative tools for transportation and mobility justice. This project widened our scope, balancing community grief practice with civic engagement to bridge divides between road users and create a collective vision of what our neighborhoods could look and feel like when we tend to our losses and lead with care. 🎥 by @motimargolin Help us nurture a river of the future! After 18 years as Superhero Clubhouse, we are transitioning to become Future River, and we want you to come along for the ride. Three ways to support: 1. MAKE A DONATION OF ANY AMOUNT VIA THE LINK IN BIO  2. Share this post on your story and tag us  3. Follow us and share our page with a kindred spirit  Your support helps us utilize the tools of theater to envision and enact environmental justice in the Hudson River bioregion (the ancestral, unceded land of the Lenape and Haudenosaunee people). Thank you for being a part of our beloved community!  PS- We know this is a time of increased need. As our bioregion grapples with major funding cuts to arts, environment, and social justice, we see the care you’re taking to ensure that your impact goes where it’s needed most. As a long-time hyperlocal organization, we remain steadfast in our commitment to act in solidarity with community-based organizations who are our navigators on the river of the future. Please support these values-aligned groups, as you consider supporting us as well.

Thank you to everyone who attended and worked on building a successful culmination of this year’s fellowship! . On October 26th, we unveiled our Fellows’ 3 Ghost Bike Activation Designs to the community, turning JACK into an urban softscape of our streets that invited conversation to build solidarity among all road users. . We led our audience in an exercise of Remembering the Future to manifest our Safe Streets dreams, and recorded some visions and stories to begin a community archive that you’ll be able to access soon through our partner askMO.co.  . There is deep grief all around us. The Ghost Bike Memorials have taught us how to honor this grief without forgetting our loved ones and dream into a livable, joyful future in our streets and across our beautiful planet. . We hope you will visit our Ghost Bike Activation Designs when you need a place to grieve, remember, and dream. #safestreets #ghostbikes #ecotheater Photo credit: @motimargolin

Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 💛🚶🏻‍♀️🚴🧑‍🦼‍➡️👨🏻‍🦽‍➡️🚘 . The Ghost Bike Activation Designs have been installed on the streets of Brooklyn and are available to visit today and everyday.🤍 . Check out the other events happening in the city today organized by @transportationalternatives @familiesforsafestreets and @getwomencycling . May we honor those we’ve lost this year and take action to address reckless behaviors on our roadways. A future of safe streets is possible! . Wherever your grief lies, let us talk to one another and continue to build a solidarity of road using community in NYC and beyond. Collaborate with us and @askmo_nyc to share your stories and visions for the future! . #wdor2025 #safestreets #ghostbikes #transportationjustice #mobilityjustice #visionzero

As we near our Ghost Bike Activation Event at JACK this Sunday Oct. 26, 4p-6p (RSVP in the bio!), we’re featuring an interview between Jackie Rivera (Fellowship Director) and Ángela Azzolino, founder of @getwomencycling . They met at the intersection of Flatbush and Tillery (the most dangerous intersection in Brooklyn) and discussed designing for humans and considering the street space a community space, in addition to other themes that will be threaded into Sunday’s event.  Ángela is also launching AskMO—an online resource for navigating NYC’s streets and a community knowledge-sharing hub. One unique element of the Ghost Bike Fellowship is that the Fellows’ work will live on not only as interactive displays on the streets but also as a page on AskMO’s online platform.  Stay tuned for the entire transcript of Jackie’s interview with Ángela! #safestreets #nycdot #bikes #ghostbikes #ecotheater #climatejustice #transportationjustice #roadsafety #visionzero #youthonbikes #bikenewyork #recycleabicycle #bkrot #streetmemorials #neveragain #cyclistwaskilledhere #futureriver Image description: Slide 1: Two people sit on a bench outside. Cars drive behind them. Slide 2: Two green street signs and a stoplight. Slide 3: Two people lean against a stoplight pole at the corner of an intersection. Behind them are pedestrians, a bridge, and two crosswalks.

Unete a nosotros para celebrar el proceso de comunidad y de compañerismo este año y experimente los diseños originales de los compañeros para activar los memoriales de las bicicletas blancas antes de que se instalen alrededor de la ciudad. Estamos a solo pocos días del evento culminante, donde los visitantes podrán interactuar con los diseños innovadores de los becarios para activar los memoriales Ghost Bike antes de que los instalemos en la calle. También es una oportunidad para crear conciencia, abogar por el movimiento de Calles Seguras y compartir en comunidad comida, historias, duelo y gozo. Comparta sus propias historias de la calle en los archivos de audio en colaboración con AskMo, una herramienta de defensa en línea y foro de mensajes para navegar el transporte urbano. Explore el salón de compartir la vía, diseñado para fomentar conversaciones que construyan solidaridad al abordar las vulnerabilidades y posibilidades entre conductores, ciclistas y peatones en un entorno urbano más amable. Ven a compartir con nosotros, habrá comida pero hay que confirmar a través del enlace en el bio en @future.river o escanear el QR en el volante. Domingo, 26 de Octubre 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm @jackartsny #ghostbikememorial #ghostbikefellowship #ghostbike #ghostbikes #ghostbikesnyc #superheroclubhouse #futureriver #transportationjustice #safestreets #climatetheater #ecotheater

We wanted to give an inside look into our Ghost Bike fellows’ building process as we prepare for our Activation Event on Oct. 26 (RSVP in the bio!) Above, you’ll see Ashera grinding a steel disc for her bike that when peddled will create sound as though the bike itself is audibly screaming in grief along with its operator. The aim is to help someone release their scream.  Tracey and Lateshia are working on a bike that invites community storytelling. The bike offers a wooden bench with the intention that two strangers could sit and share their experience of being on the road. Jules and Caroline are working on a collective imagination bike that will ask people to share their memories of the future. In addition, Tyvek flowers adorn this bike and work as a heat map indicating where the deadliest crashes occur in Brooklyn.  We’d also like to shout out our lead designer Lizzie who has been helping with our program’s timeline, supporting our fellows in finding materials, and training them on the equipment needed to bring their visions to life! #safestreets #nycdot #bikes #ghostbikes #ecotheater #climatejustice #transportationjustice #roadsafety #visionzero #youthonbikes #bikenewyork #recycleabicycle #bkrot #streetmemorials #neveragain #cyclistwaskilledhere #futureriver Image Description:  Slide 1: A person wearing a green long-sleeved shirt, brown gloves, protective safety helmet and headphones grinds a metal plate in a workshop. Two people hold onto a blue bicycle. One is crouched and holding onto the frame and the other is bent over the bike seat. Slide 2: A person wearing a mask and protective goggles uses a buzzsaw to cut a piece of wood in a workshop. Slide 3: Two seated people talk to another crouching person. One person has a laptop on their lap.

IN TWO WEEKS The Ghost Bike Fellowship Activation Event wraps up the four-month long Brooklyn-based civic engagement project from Eco-theater, Future River! (Formerly Superhero Clubhouse) On October 26, 4-6pm at JACK, 20 Putnam Ave - Clinton Hill, BK The Ghost Bike Fellows will unveil their interactive designs for three bikes intended to engage with the public on the importance of processing grief, community story-sharing, and envisioning a joyful future of safe streets.  The Ghost Bike Fellows invite you to listen, share, and join us for an afternoon of exploration, processing, and envisioning active solidarity for all road users. We hope you can make it! RSVP at the link in the bio- and follow @Future.River to stay up to date on the locations of our designs on the street! Special Thanks to: Beam Center Steve Scofield, Kevin Daloia and Leah Todd - NYC Street Memorials askMO + Ángela Azzolino - Get Women Cycling Courtney Williams - The Brown Bike Girl Recycle-A-Bicycle Caitlin Toner at NYC DOT Bobby Preti at Families for Safe Streets Claudia Corcino with Ciclistas Latinoamericanos & Anne Krassner - Citi Bike #safestreets #nycdot #bikes #ghostbikes #ecotheater #climatejustice #transportationjustice #roadsafety #visionzero #youthonbikes #bikenewyork #recycleabicycle #bkrot #streetmemorials #neveragain #cyclistwaskilledhere #futureriver Image Description: A white bicycle in front of black asphalt.

In honor of our upcoming Ghost Bike Fellowship Activation Event (RSVP link in bio), today we’re looking back at one of the origins of the larger Ghost Bike performance project. Four years ago this week, after a creative development process between Jackie Rivera (GB Fellowship Director) and Jem Pickard (Future River co-director), we gathered some wonderful artists together and offered a pop-up performance in Prospect Park. This short, site-specific play centered on four strangers, brought together by the joy and grief of cycling in NYC.  There’s a direct line between that early public event and the Fellowship we are currently hosting. In the performance, as a cyclist (played by Amy Liu) visits a ghost bike memorial, she also witnesses another cyclist (played by Julian Socha) almost get hit by a car. Amy’s character makes a routine of visiting her local ghost bike without even knowing who had died there. This personal grieving ritual inspired the creative focus of the Ghost Bike Fellowship. What if we took ownership of the ghost bikes? What if we accepted that a cemetery exists on our streets, while simultaneously resisting the cause of their deaths? What would we learn about how to care for one another in the street space? These are some of the questions we’re inviting you into on October 26, 4pm-6pm at JACK at our FREE Activation Event, celebrating the 2025 Ghost Bike Fellows and their work. RSVP via the link in bio! The 2021 Ghost Bike pop-up performance in Prospect Park featured Ras Bad, Jenny Hipscher, Amy Liu, and Julian Socha, with songs performed by members of the Resistance Revival Chorus.  #safestreets #nycdot #bikes #ghostbikes #ecotheater #climatejustice #transportationjustice #roadsafety #visionzero #youthonbikes #bikenewyork #recycleabicycle #bkrot #streetmemorials #neveragain #cyclistwaskilledhere #futureriver

Save the date! Our Ghost Bike Fellowship culminates next month with an interactive public event that envisions a joyful future of safe streets in NYC. Join us to celebrate this year’s Fellowship process, learn more about the movement for Safe Streets and how you can get involved, and admire Fellows’ innovative designs for activating ghost bike memorials before they are installed around the city. Sunday October 26, 4pm-6pm @jackartsny , Clinton Hill, Brooklyn The Ghost Bike Fellowship is a four-month creative residency for six stakeholders of Brooklyn transportation to process the crisis of traffic violence in our borough. Over four months, Fellows participate in workshops with local leaders in transportation justice, help maintain existing Ghost Bike memorials, and collaborate on a public event. Visit our website to learn more. #ghostbikememorial #ghostbikefellowship #ghostbike #ghostbikes #ghostbikesnyc #superheroclubhouse #futureriver #transportationjustice #safestreets #climateart #climatetheater #ecotheater