Category: Media Literacy
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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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“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.…
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Surfeminist Analysis of Gypsy Files-The Most Fearless
One task of Surfeminism is to analyze surf media and surf narratives. In this mode, we are able to distinguish Surfeminism from surf industry propaganda (often advanced second-hand by those who accept surfy propaganda) filtered through the image of the surfer girl. Surfeminism, as a tool, works to press into a solid (say, a story…
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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…
