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FLUX: Redefining Women’s Surfing (film event announcement)
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 from Chapman University for Project W. Sarah Lee, Chad King and Mia Montanile’s film was screened this evening as an official short selection at the Newport Film Festival. Although…
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On being “OUT in the Line-up” (radio interview)
This week, I joined Wes Terry during his radio show on All Action Sports Network to discuss the award-winning documentary OUT in the Line-Up and my personal experiences growing up as an aspiring professional surfer in a homophobic environment. The interview is available online: Part 1 Part 2 The article Wes read from in Part…
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I Stand with Otis Carey
Ignorance and blindness are the foundations upon which racism is built. Plenty more houses are built upon ignorance and blindness, like sexism and homophobia. Perhaps one of the most misunderstood aspects of racism, sexism and homophobia is that cruel intentions are not a requirement for racist, sexist or homophobic acts to be perpetrated. In addition,…
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Monsanto vs. Surf Activists
At the end of March, Monsanto was taken to task by Kelly Slater (who recently left his longtime sponsor, and Monsanto-linked, Quiksilver), Cyrus Sutton and Kyle Thiermann on the company’s newly created Instagram account. In this conversation, Kelly Slater brings up GM cotton: “I will say that certain cottons, for instance, are proven to need…
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Kelly Slater’s Ethical Choice to Leave Quiksilver
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 my post, A Year in Review, 2013,…
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And what of the current state of women’s pro surfing?
“It’s time to take women’s competitive surfing to the next level.” These words have been echoing through the halls of women’s surfing since pro surfing began in earnest in 1976. Then, only 20% of the total prize purse for competitions was allocated to female competitive surfers. With the exponential growth in participation and interest in…
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The Privilege of Following Your Dreams
I have found that in (nearly) every conversations about and within surfing, the hierarchy of power and privilege is the single most often overlooked underlying assumption to each of these conversations. But I also believe that this open door, this obvious omission, allows the exact rupture needed for intense analysis and change to permeate the…
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Of Two Minds
Being a spectator of and a commentator on the symptoms of a surf industry in a toilet bowl spiral is something akin to (I imagine) how Jerry Stahl’s Lloyd feels about his job wording the side effects of prescription drug use in Happy Mutant Baby Pills. That is, Lloyd has all the information about the…
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The Year in Review, 2013
This was a monster of a year for discovery and activism in surf culture. For this reason, I think it would be beneficial to highlight and revisit those topics covered this year that have been most salient, before we enter a new year. Please feel free to add to this list in the comment section…
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If She Can Do It, So Can I (video)
I met Mimi Knoop a few years ago at the Women In Boardsports conference in Saas Fee, Switzerland where I gave the presentation From ‘Stand by Your Man’ to ‘Stand by Your Suntan to an amazing group of ladies who continue to inspire me. Mimi introduced me to some projects in women’s skateboarding, at the…
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State of Flux
