Tag Archive: Women

Longboard Girls Crew

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This Longboard Girls Crew looks epic to me. If only I could skate… (via Endless Bummer. Of course!) I love watching this clip, because it reminds me of my own girlfriends and how… Read More

The fluid boundaries of belonging, race, country and language

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Phuong Dung Hoang grew up in France to Vietnamese parents, and now lives in Port Fairy, in the south west of Victoria, Australia. In 3 short minutes she tells the story of how… Read More

The Ninth Wave – no girls allowed?

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I sat down at a cafe the other day to find a copy of recently released, The Ninth Wave (edited by Sean Doherty and presented by Surfing World), sitting on the table. The… Read More

Isma Amor

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One of the beautiful and enduring myths in Australian surfing history, is that Isabel Letham was the first woman to go surfing here. And indeed, fifteen year-old Isabel certainly volunteered to ride tandem… Read More

Blurred lines – a post blatantly stolen from The Endless Bummer

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All these photos we’ve been posting here, with this on-going talk of speed, power and torque, as well as the apparent compromise to grace, have had me thinking. The recently posted photos are… Read More

Beaching Water: 1975 to 2007 by Shè Hawke (Part II)

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by Shè Hawke, Kurungabaa, Volume 2, Issue 1, June 2009. Part One is available here Part Two: A Buddhist Koan says: “The master holds the disciple’s head underwater for a long, long time;… Read More

Beaching Water: 1975 to 2007 by Shè Hawke (Part I)

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by Shè Hawke, Kurungabaa, Volume 2, Issue 1, June 2009. -Surfer: Ryobay. Photo from the blog: Ray. In 1975 Craig Leggett, from University of Sydney student magazine Honi Soit, asked Phil Jarrett, editor… Read More

Sexual Ethics and Surfing – “The Party”

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A particular football culture in Australia is under fire for the attitudes towards women and sexual consent. There has been a number of sexual assault allegations over the years, in 2005 the Bulldogs… Read More

Wahines

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Girls do fine when it comes to housework, raising children, doing office work, doing the twist and riding the small surf at Malibu. More and more girls are surfing, and I’m glad to… Read More

Desiree DeSoto

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From over at Bec’s place: Ages ago, a friend described a photo to me that she had seen somewhere, sometime. She said it was of a Hawi’ian woman dropping her board through the… Read More

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