Tag: association of surfing professionals

• Endless Cannibalization of Authenticity, Cease

  

  Bruce Brown’s 1966 The Endless Summer(TES) presented an alternative narrative to the shenanigans of the many beach/surfy lifestyle movies that erupted from Hollywood after Gidget emerged to much fanfare in 1958. In TES, there are no post-surf bonfire orgies, no frustrating hetero-love triangles that finally resolve in dramatic Hollywood fashion, and certainly no surfing ladies…

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  May 7, 2013

  Deconstructing Surfing, environment, Environmental Justice, Feminism, History, Surfing

  ambassadorship, ASP, association of surfing professionals, Big Surfing, branding, consumerism, Cori Schumacher, Feminism, SIMA, sponsorship, surf brands, surf industry, surfer, surfing, Ted Endo

• “Standing Her Ground”: Curl Magazine #31

  (This interview about women in surfing and my decision to boycott the ASP World Tour, was just published in the summer issue of Curl Magazine. There is no online access to this article so it is being reprinted here, with the images and captions provided in the article. I have also added links throughout the…

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  December 17, 2011

  Feminism, Interviews/Articles, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, association of surfing professionals, boycott, brodie carr, carissa moore, Chelsea Williams, China, chinese government, Cori Schumacher, Curl Magazine, Feminism, Hainan Island, human rights, Kassia Meador, Lindsay Steinriede, longboarding, new york times, nike, one child policy, shortboarding, SIMA, surfing, the inertia, volcom, women in boardsports, women’s longboarding, women’s rights, women’s rights without frontiers, women’s shortboarding, zach weisberg

• surfing 2.0: fetishism and spectacle

  

  One of the most compelling traits of consumerist culture is the constant message of “never enough.” You can never have too much… S/he with the most toys wins… You can never be too successful… You can never have too many trophies… too much money… too many friends on Facebook/Twitter… etc. This is the fall-out of…

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  November 29, 2011

  Deconstructing Surfing, History, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, association of surfing professionals, Big Surfing, commodity, consumerism, Cori Schumacher, fetish, fetishism, Marx