Tag: surf culture

• 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…

  gp77

  February 1, 2014

  Deconstructing Surfing, History, Media Literacy, Politics, Surfing, Writing

  Cori Schumacher, Jill Manos, surf culture, surf industry

• Surfing’s Culture of Silence

  

  “Platforms are judged by the value generated by their ecosystem, not by the value the platforms directly capture.” -Dalton Caldwell (Please be advised, this post contains explicit language from Twitter feeds.) The language of surfing has long been dominated by the motion and gestures of the body. The narratives we construct, the legends, the mythologies,…

  gp77

  August 10, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Environmental Justice, Gay, History, Surfing

  Andy Irons, anonymous surf culture, Big Surfing, Bobby Martinez, Cori Schumacher, culture of silence, Dane Reynolds, Kelly Slater, Paul Sargeant, power, Shea Lopez, sponsorship, sponsorship dynamic, surf culture, surfing, Ted Endo