Category: Feminism
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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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“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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ROXY Pro Trailer: One Year Later
One year ago, the loudest and most visible conversation in surfing revolved around how women are represented by surf brands. Women of all ages, from every corner of the world and from every background you can imagine (lawyers, teachers, mothers, daughters, athletes of every kind), along with grandfathers, fathers, and our brothers, stood together, over…
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“Riding Waves, Forging Communities”
“Two generations of feminists helped to build the sport, and now a more racially diverse, third generation looks to expand the women’s surfing community to numbers never before seen and with a pro-environment socially conscious transnational awareness.” -Riding Waves, Forging Communities: Surfing, Gender, and Feminism in 20th Century California Does it feel like a tide…
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An Initiative for Change
For more info about Saturday’s screening of the film FLUX see the event announcement. And, coming soon… theinspireinitiative.org
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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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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…
