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no place for politics?
John Carlos and Tommie Smith Forty-three years, one month and one day ago, two American athletes took the platform at the Olympic games in Mexico City to accept their gold and bronze medals. As the Star-Spangled Banner was played and the American flag crept up the flagpole, the two men took black gloves from…
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Champions in China and Meaning-Making Machines (link)
Swatch Girls Pro China, 2011 Some of my thoughts on the recent ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship in China, the first significant event to be held in China by the Association of Surfing Professionals. Champions in China and Meaning-Making Machines For more information about why I was not in attendance at this event:Why I’m…
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rethinking: occupy feminism
Globalization is a homogenizing mechanism of capitalism. It promises to erode borders, languages, races, ethnicities and genders and replace all identities with a single id drive: “BUY-your-SELF-expression-now!” and is undercut throughout by Greed. Capital has no home, it has no body, it has no single origin (not anymore)… it is a spirit with a single…
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the presentation: what we can do (Women in Boardsports, 2011, part 2)
Photo Credit: Alba Pardo I woke early the day I was to give my presentation at the Women in Boardsports retreat in Saas Fee. I had stayed up quite late the night previous in order to ensure I had noted the elements I most wanted to communicate. I had taught myself Keynote in the process…
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getting there (Women in Boardsports 2011, part 1)
Last night I arrived home, exhausted but inspired and teeming with ideas, from a retreat nestled at the base of an ancient glacier in Saas Fee, Switzerland. The drive from Geneva to Saas Fee was easily one of the most beautiful I have undertaken. From fields of hay, corn and apple trees, to the expansive…
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Tackling the Mythology of a Sport
I have been working the last few weeks on the presentation I will be giving at the Women in Boardsports retreat. Browsing through the websites of the major surf brands and surf media websites has been a tedious, albeit enlightening, experience. I have intentionally distanced myself from the mainstream surf industry (brands, retail stores, media,…
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Women in Boardsports Retreat, 2011
At the end of the month, I will be headed to Saas Fee for the Women in Boardsports Retreat where I have been invited to be a keynote speaker. I am really enjoying putting the presentation together and gathering my thoughts on: Women’s action sports as the sports of the new feminine and the new…
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Gone, The Deviants*
Once, surfing was a haven for those dismissed by society-at-large, shunned or otherwise despised by a protestant-work-ethic-entrenched culture and beloved from within surf culture, as deviants. The July 2011 issue of Surfing World from Australia, which focused on misfits, oddballs and eccentrics in the surfing world, asks: “Surfing has traditionally been the great refuge of…
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long-sleeved daisy dukes
Finally broke down and began the search for a new wetsuit last week. I didn’t want to spend my hard-earned dollars on the Usual Suspects (Rip, O’, Quik or Bill) so I dug a bit deeper. My list was short given that I didn’t want a suit made in China and I wanted to support…
Cori Schumacher
State of Flux
