NOBODY RIDES THE SUBWAY IN LA

“Only a nobody walks in L.A.” (or rides the subway?) - “Walking in LA”, Missing Persons, 1982

“‘Erasure’ refers to the practice of collective indifference that renders certain people and groups invisible. The word migrated out of the academy, where it alluded to the tendency of ideologies to dismiss inconvenient facts, and is increasingly used to describe how inconvenient people are dismissed, their history, pain and achievements blotted out.” Parul Sehgal, “Fighting ‘Erasure’”, N.Y. Times, Feb. 2, 2016.,