Tag: Thrasher

  • Thrasher Betty Hunt

    Thrasher Betty Hunt

    Thrasher magazine in the early 1980s was hit and mostly miss when it came to the representation of women skateboarders in their pages. The problem was that there was this fear around being labeled a poseur or a fraud that likely stemmed from the punk scene, which was always intent on rooting out folks who…

  • Renee Tantillo

    Renee Tantillo

    In the late 1980s and 1990s, Renee ‘Ne’ Tantillo started skateboarding and became a Riot Grrrl. She was featured in a Venture Trucks ad as an “average kid” in the September 1987 issue of Thrasher, but the ad itself was a contradictory mess. It reads, “Who the hell are these little dudes? Where’s the pros?…

  • Krishna Swenson

    Krishna Swenson

    Krishna Swenson was a skateboarder who owned the WILD ramp at the Castillo Street House in Santa Barbara, and absolutely ripped! She appeared in the May 1990 issue of Thrasher in an article called “Keeping up with the Santa Barbarians” by John Dettman. The caption states, “Owner of the WILD ramp and dominant backyard skate…

  • KZ Zapata

    KZ Zapata

    Flipping through old Thrasher magazines I spotted two mystery photos of a skater named KZ Zapata. In April 1986, a photo of her was included in an article by Bonnie Blouin called “Sugar and Spice…?” alongside Stephanie Person, April Hoffman, Babs Fahrney, and Michelle Sanderson. The caption said she was a 19-year-old student at UCSB…