Tag: book reviews
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Skateboarding is for Me
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the variety of digitized 1970s skateboarding books on the Internet Archive, including Skateboarding is For Me (1978 Lerner Publications) by Lowell A. Dickmeyer with photos by Daniel E. Gross. I had briefly flipped through the book in the hour before launching my book at Antisocial Skateshop, since it’s part of Michelle…
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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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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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Concrete Surfer comics
“The Concrete Surfer” comic series from the pages of Jinty teen mag in 1978 by Pat Mills (writer) and Christine Ellingham (illustrator) was compiled and re-released thanks to the Treasury of British Comics in 2020 and it is pure gold. If you love comics and have an ounce of nostalgia for skateboarding in the 1970s,…
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Skate Book Club
On top of writing / editing a book, Girl Gangs, Zines and Powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders (Fall 2025) and on-going research for the archive / Instagram posts, I couldn’t resist supporting the launch of Skate Book Club with John Freeborn of @tailsofskateboarding. So far, we’ve released two newsletters with a feature book,…
Womxn Skateboard History 