Tag: Cori Schumacher
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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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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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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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Selling Sex in Surfing: Opinion and Fact Collide
Beyond the opinions of whether sex sells or not, and all the attendant questions often overlooked in this simple cliché (e.g. What does sex sell, exactly? Does sex effectively sell every product/service? How does this marketing strategy impact society? Are men and women equally drawn to the sexualization of human bodies? Are men and women…
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Emboldening the Renaissance of Surfing
Decentralizing the male competitive/professional surfer as the measure by which good surfing is gauged may be the most important shift in surfing’s renaissance. I make no apologies if using the word “renaissance” comes off sounding grandiose. Rather than focus on the “hipster” conversation and its idea of authenticity, that evokes little more than opinions surrounding…
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(Video) Roxy Petition Delivery Summary
Discussing content and outcome of the petition delivery meeting and the packet left with Danielle Beck and Cathey Curtis. Petition Update: The campaign asking Roxy to Stop their use of “all sex, no surf” ads continues to grow and has reached nearly 21,800 supporters. Shifts in the industry: Yesterday, the Association of Surfing Professionals announced…
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Roxy Trailer Petition Delivery
Yesterday, September 12, 2013, Krista Comer (Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Rice University in Texas, and author of Surfer Girls in the New World Order) and I met with Danielle Beck (VP of Marketing) and Cathey Curtis (Senior VP of Marketing) at the Roxy Headquarters in Huntington Beach to deliver the signatures and…
