Category: News
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Happy Holidays 2025
This festive photo, published on December 22, 1975, features Wayne McKeown, age 12, from Annandale, CA, transporting his Christmas tree by skateboard. That’s 50 years ago to the day… woah. Photo: Martin James Brannan Wishing everyone a lovely holiday and a happy new year! I managed to cram in one more last-minute interview last week…
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2025 Wrap Up
2025 has been an epic year, and there’s still a few more weeks to go that I suspect will be super busy! While I’m mindful that some of the promotion activities for Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders have been distracting me from my regular research and the writing of…
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Skate Book Launched
I’ve just returned from sunny San Diego to some Pacific Northwest winter rain (sob!) but am still riding that author’s high a month after seeing my book published and on bookstore shelves! Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders was released on September 16th with ECW Press, and the whole experience…
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Book Launch Countdown
It’s less than a week away from “Pub Day” for Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders and so far, the feedback has been encouraging! I’m trying to stay positive even though there’s some nagging thoughts of doubt and anxiety, imagining friends, family, and strangers reading or listening to it (there’s…
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Retro Skateboard Authors
LaVada Weir, Barbara Douglass, and Laura Torbet were three female authors from the 1970s who contributed welcoming and inclusive books about skateboarding. With my own book Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders just a month away from being published, I’ve been thinking about this canon of authors who were so…
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Beyond Boards
I keep a gratitude jar to collect reminders of positive moments and kind gestures throughout the year that I’m grateful for. On New Year’s Day I open the jar and get to reminisce about the year. There’s been a whirlwind of activity lately in anticipation of the book coming out, and every day I feel…
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Cover Reveal
It’s cover reveal time for Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders thanks to ECW Press. I enjoyed the design process, working with Jessica Albert and my editor Jen Sookfong Lee who were receptive to my feedback. And I’m just so stoked on the final graphic with a nod to Equal…
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Thrasher Interview
When the editor of Thrasher reached out and offered to feature the archive in an upcoming issue, I was nervous considering that, the magazine wasn’t exactly an ally for women in decades past. And while I don’t condemn the publication, there have been moments in its history that demonstrate just how fragile and insecure the…
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3rd Year Anniversary
I’ve got a tradition going! On International Women’s Day, I’m reminded that another year has passed since I launched the archive in 2022. And, like last year, I get to reflect on my experience at the Slow Impact long weekend in Tempe, Arizona, which was extra special since my good friend (and former housemate), Rhianon…
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Love & Friendship
In anticipation of Slow Impact 2025 in Tempe, Arizona I’ve been preparing some excerpts from my book to read as a kind of “sneak peak.” If you’re at the event, skater / author Kyle Beachy has arranged an evening called “Anything At All” at 8pm on February 22nd at Cowtown skateshop. It should be a…
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