Category: Surfing
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A Conversation with Ishita Malaviya BBC World Service
Ishita Malaviya, the first recognized professional female surfer in India, and I chat about our experiences in surfing… similarities and differences. Wish the conversation never ended! Listen to The Conversation: The Conversation, Ishita and Cori at BBC World Services
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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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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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“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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Constructing a History of Women’s Surfing
“Those who don’t preserve their history end up with their stories told incorrectly or not told at all. It’s incumbent upon all of us to know women’s surfing history and tell it whenever we can.” -Mary Mills The History of Women’s Surfing has not been written. What little history we do have is littered among…
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Surf Splendor Interview (Podcast)
Last week I met up with David Scales of Surf Splendor for a conversation about everything from my many exits and returns in competitive surfing to burning journals to the film OUT in the Lineup to the current state of women’s surfing. What transpires is one of the most candid interviews I have given. Many…
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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,…
