Category: Media
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Ramdasha Bikceem
In 1990, when Ramdasha Bikceem (they/them) from Basking Ridge, New Jersey was 15 years old they started an all-girl skater gang and band, both called Gunk. Ramdasha taught themself to play guitar without formal training, and the band’s early shows were held in the basement of a friend’s parent’s place. The following year Ramdasha launched…
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The Skate Witches
For most skateboarders today, when you hear mention of “The Skate Witches,” you might associate the reference to The Skate Witches zines by Kristin Ebeling and Shari White or the Bronx-based skate crew The Brujas, which both emerged simultaneously in 2014, or even The No Comply Coven that formed in 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.…
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Lisa Jak Wietzke
The skateboarder movie genre, with classic titles like Thrashin’ (1986) and Gleaming the Cube (1989), has tended to dismiss female roles as “the love interest” or just a sidekick or non-existent. This changed in 1990 with the release of a little-known student-made movie called Grinding to Win. It is set in West Vancouver, written and…
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Live and Let Ride
The first documentary film to focus solely upon the women’s skate scene was produced by Tara Cooper in 1999. Cooper’s independent production was called Live and Let Ride and was a 30-minute film that addressed many issues relating to women’s skateboarding experiences like their limited representation in mainstream skate magazines, lack of opportunities to compete…
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Skaters Comic France
I’ve somehow stumbled upon the most curious / rad French comic book publication called Skaters from 1978-1979 where the superheroes are skateboarders! The authors were Enzo Chiomenti, Jose de Huescar, Fuschino & Angelo Maria Ricci. Curious to know if the artists/writers were skaters? It looks absolutely sweet and I’ll bet there were kids who couldn’t…
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The Hags
This hardcore all-female skate crew was launched in 1983 and was the inspiration of Sevie Bates and her punk friends living in West Los Angeles. Bates had received her first skateboard in the early 1970s at age 9 – a wooden board with clay wheels called, “The Black Knight” and she was an inspiration to…
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Push & Frontside Betty
Does anyone remember Frontside Betty website and Push skateboard magazine? Both were created by Denise Williams in Halifax, Canada in the early 2000s. The world wide web was a gamechanger and Williams was motivated to reach other isolated women skateboarders, to shift the ratio of representation, and be a resource. Here are the three digitized issues of…
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