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POP some Empowermints before watching this video!
SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE: WEIGHT LOSS, WEIGHT GAIN, DEPRESSION, VOMITING, DIZZINESS, LOSS OF APPETITE, LOWERED SEX DRIVE, STERILITY, ELEPHANT SKIN AND SUN SENSITIVITY. IN SOME RARE CASES EMPOWERMINTS HAVE LED TO PROLONGED DEEP UNCONSCIOUSNESS OR PREMATURE DEATH. “How are young people able to get their voices heard beyond voting with their dollars? Increasingly, they are…
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Women, Surfing, Sustainability
(LINK FIXED) Women are the key to sustainability. We exist at the crossroads between reproduction and production, and as such, feel the effects of every policy shift, not only those that focus on the primacy of (unsustainable) economic growth over people-centered equitable development, but also those shifts that aim to be sustainable. Read More at…
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Opening Words, International Women’s Day 2015
Opening words for the March 8th International Women’s Day Event hosted by my organization, The Inspire Initiative, and Waves of Freedom (read full recap of the event here). “Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight for surfing’s first International Women’s Day celebration. Every great shift in surfing has been heralded by an evolution in technology…
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Surfing’s International Women’s Day, 2015
March 8th is International Women’s Day, a day where folks around the world celebrate women’s achievements while also recognizing the challenges women and girls face at home and abroad. In 1995 (the same year I graduated high school and set off to follow my childhood dream to become a world surfing champion), 189 government representatives…
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“WE’VE HAD ENOUGH!!!” says WIB
Women in Board and Action Sports (WIB) continues its blitz on the status quo marketing and advertising of women in the board and action sports industry where adverts like the one below dominate. The newest ad by WIB pushes the envelope further and is followed by an excerpt from an open letter to the board and action…
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Active Women say “The Time Has Come…”
*** Remember the ad below? RVCA’s “Balance of Opposites”… Women in Board and Action Sports (WIB) have created their own ad in response, titled “The Opposite of Equality” and plan to drop an open letter to the action- and boardsports industry at this week’s ISPO event in Munich. The WIB ad reads: “The time has come to replace the illusions…
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Gender Apologists and Opposites in Surfing
An increase in the visibility of apologist voices, propped up by a slowly wasting status quo, arrives in a culture at the moment a robust transition is beginning to gain traction. In the movement against sexism and gender inequality in surfing, this trend is no different. Alongside the rise in apologist voices, is a renewed…
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Video – FLUX: Redefining Women’s Surfing
FLUX: Redefining Women’s Surfing is a short film I assisted with (and am also in with young ripper Kahanu Delovio) alongside a talented crew of filmmakers, Sarah Lee, Chad King and Mia Montanile, from Chapman University for Project W. From the filmmakers: “FLUX is a powerful essay documentary that reveals sexism in the surfing industry.…
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Board of Media
Emma Shoesmith is a tow-headed, Brit firecracker who is currently living in London and studying at the University of Westminster. She has an infectious sense of humor, a deep-seated passion for action sports, and a refreshing vision on how to creatively package a critical perspective of women’s (under)representation and inequality in board and action sports.…
Cori Schumacher
State of Flux
