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Kelly Slater’s Ethical Choice to Leave Quiksilver
First published April 1, 2014.-by Cori Schumacher Kelly Slater has exited a brand that has seen its fair share of dramatic push-back over the last year, from the uproar around the Roxy Biarritz Pro Trailer to the link I discovered between Quiksilver and Monsanto. Many are wondering why KS made such a drastic move. In…
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World Champion Longboarder Now Fighting for the People Through Politics
By Elizabeth Sine, History Professor, Cal Poly State University Cori Schumacher has a reputation as an iconoclast. From her 2011 boycott of the ASP to her 2013 protest against the notorious Roxy Pro Biarritz ad, the three-time World Longboard Champion has captured widespread attention over the years for her willingness to speak out against the…
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Speaking Truth To Power
I first heard about three times longboard world champion and current Carlsbad city council member Cori Schumacher in 2013, at the height of the Roxy/Steph Gilmore controversy. That was an episode that shone a harsh light on some of the more retrograde and toxic attitudes at play in the surf industry; and almost perfectly encapsulated…
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Surfing Formulations: Emerging from the Apolitical
Surfing Formulations: Emerging from the Apolitical The following is an excerpt from a keynote talk I presented at San Diego State University for the “Impact Zones and Liminal Spaces” conference in April of 2019. The SDSU talk intended to build upon and fill out the seminal theoretical work I authored in The Critical Surf Studies…
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A Conversation with Ishita Malaviya BBC World Service
Ishita Malaviya, the first recognized professional female surfer in India, and I chat about our experiences in surfing… similarities and differences. Wish the conversation never ended! Listen to The Conversation: The Conversation, Ishita and Cori at BBC World Services
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Surfeminist Spaces
Originally written for/at The Inspire Initiative. “There is a place at the center of earth where one ocean dissolves inside the other in a black and holy love; It’s why the whales of one sea know the songs of the other, why one thing becomes something else and sand falls down the hourglass into another…
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Outerknown and Beyond
Shockwaves rolled through surfy social media Wednesday, July 15th as Kelly Slater launched the first line in his journey to transparency: Outerknown. For those who have been reading KS’ interviews since leaving Quiksilver and paying attention to the Kering Group’s 4 year shift to achieve industry transforming sustainability standards, while also keeping a finger on…
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“Objects don’t Object”*
Conversations about sexism are exactly like conversations about climate change: an overwhelming amount of empirical evidence exists for the damage it causes and what it specifically looks/acts like, pretty much everyone agrees it’s happening, but the causes, the behaviors, both systemic and subjective, that continue to drive it and make it worse, are often presented…
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Vans, Reef, and Anti-Gay Legislation
“There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal…
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VIDEO Surfing’s International Women’s Day
Video recap of the March 8th, International Women’s Day collaborative event with The Inspire Initiative, Easkey Britton, and Waves of Freedom. Surfing's International Women's Day, 2015 from The Inspire Initiative on Vimeo.
Cori Schumacher
State of Flux
