Tag: The Inspire Initiative
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VIDEO Surfing’s International Women’s Day
Video recap of the March 8th, International Women’s Day collaborative event with The Inspire Initiative, Easkey Britton, and Waves of Freedom. Surfing's International Women's Day, 2015 from The Inspire Initiative on Vimeo.
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Women, Surfing, Sustainability
(LINK FIXED) Women are the key to sustainability. We exist at the crossroads between reproduction and production, and as such, feel the effects of every policy shift, not only those that focus on the primacy of (unsustainable) economic growth over people-centered equitable development, but also those shifts that aim to be sustainable. Read More at…
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Opening Words, International Women’s Day 2015
Opening words for the March 8th International Women’s Day Event hosted by my organization, The Inspire Initiative, and Waves of Freedom (read full recap of the event here). “Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight for surfing’s first International Women’s Day celebration. Every great shift in surfing has been heralded by an evolution in technology…
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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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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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A Visible History of Women’s Surfing
“A culture that cultivates silence for half of its population is not a healthy culture, even if the silence is unintentionally cultivated.” As a kid who was dragged along by my parents to events during the longboard renaissance in the late-1980s through the 1990s, I had the opportunity to mingle with the legends of surfing.…
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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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An Initiative for Change
For more info about Saturday’s screening of the film FLUX see the event announcement. And, coming soon… theinspireinitiative.org
