Tag: zines
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Peggy Walden
Peggy Walden of Marshfield, Wisconsin, began skateboarding in 1986 and was age 15 when she was featured in an interview for the February 1991 issue of the female-focused skateboarding zine Equal Time (pp 10-16), which was edited by JoAnn Gillespie, who took over from Lynn Kramer. Peggy’s part in SK8HERS I am so grateful for…
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Check it Out magazine
In the mid-1990s, a group of Brazilian girls came together with a unique vision that would evolve into the publication Check it Out, which would have a profound effect on women skaters internationally. Photo: the cover of the very first zine from 1995 next to the creator, Liza grinding a mini-ramp in 1999 It all…
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Villa Villa Cola
In 1996, skateboarding twins Tiffany Morgan (Campbell) and Nicole Morgan (Young) decided not to use a college fund that their parents had set aside for education, but rather to use the money to start a female-focused skateboard and apparel company. Lisa Whitaker of Meow Skateboards recalled that the sisters tried to pitch their idea to…
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Happy New Year 2025
Happy New Year! It’s 2025 and I couldn’t be more excited. 2024 was a bit of a rollercoaster, at least health-wise but it certainly ended on a high note. Plus, the sun came out briefly yesterday, so I went to the skatepark (rescued a bunch of worms in puddles) and found a small patch of…
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Armpit zine
Armpit zine was the brainchild of Erika Dubé, a Quebecois skateboarder who had spent significant time in California, getting to know the crew behind the San Diego zine, Villa Villa Cola. Back in Montréal, Quebec, Erika determined that the local crew of female skateboarders, who would soon become known as The Skirtboarders in 2002, needed…
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Swash Buckler
Narangkar Khalsa (Glover) was the publisher of the Oakland-based skate zine, Swash Buckler which included four issues celebrating female skaters in the early 2000s. Issue #1 from January 2001 featured Bridget Ribbel, Dandelion Bordow, the All Girl Skate Jam 2000, and ASR Tradeshow 2000. Issue #2 from May 2001 celebrated Peggy Oki, Melissa Dafnos, and…
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Slow Impact 2024
In just over a week, I’ll be flying down to Arizona to be part of the Slow Impact skateboard festival conference event in Tempe, February 16-19! I’ve got a lightning talk for your enjoyment called, “Female and Non-Binary Skateboarding Zines of the 1980s and 1990s: a skater librarian’s methodical f**k you to archival silence.” Decided…
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Leaf Treinen
Leaf Treinen was originally from Hawaii before growing up in Eugene, Oregon where she became a factory-sponsored skateboarder in the late 1980s / early 1990s. In March of 1986, nearing the end of 8th Grade, Leaf began skateboarding and was aware of the local Willamette Dammitt contest, which took place for the first time on…
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G.B. Jones
G.B. Jones is an artist who collaborated on the queer punk zine called J.D.’s (AKA Juvenile Delinquents / James Dean / J.D. Salinger / Just Desserts diner / Jack Daniels / Joy Division) with Bruce LaBruce and The New Lavender Panthers out of Toronto, Canada from 1985-1991. In the zine, they cultivated the queercore movement…
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Zine update!
Do you love zines? Well, you’re in luck because I’ve added a new resource reference page where I will be uploading scans of historical zines for your enjoyment. Check it out here (also included in the dropdown menu). If you are a zine author or collector, and have better scans or missing issues, I would…
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