Hot Girl Summer, Urbanist Nightmare

The heat wave made one thing explicitly sticky: freedom is unevenly distributed, and its limits are a manmade phenomenon straight out of disaster patriarchy casting. This episode of Auto Asphyxiation explores what extreme heat reveals about gender, mobility, and the politics of space in New Jersey and New York. We discuss the limits placed on women's movement, the emotional geography of access, and the strange experience of living in the country's most urban state while constantly arguing about what and who counts as urban and suburban. The urban & suburban divide feels more like an ideology than merely a neutral geographic description.

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