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Get Writing with the Skate Witches x Vans Workshops

Stoked to be part of the writing team in the new @theskatewitches x @vans @vansskate free workshops – all are now live to watch. Edited by Shari White. Scroll down to watch Workshop #3 with Kristin Ebeling, Alex White, me, … Continue reading

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Support Black Skateboarders

Skateboarders, many faces from many places. See @ryan_lay original post for fundraisers for bail for protesters for Black Lives Matter This has been a hell of a year and now is the time to be energising to support and stand up for … Continue reading

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Black Lives Matter – overseas and on Aboriginal Land

Black Lives Matter in the USA, globally and also locally and it is important to identify and dismantle systemic racism and enduring forms of colonialism at all levels of society and big institutions. Over at Twitter @aaffn the network has … Continue reading

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SAGE Network Launched: Includes Equity in Skateboarding Research

This year has been full of unforeseen changes and challenges but also some fresh and adaptive approaches to continue things we are all passionate about. For me, this includes continuing to promote skateboarding as both an increasingly inclusive activity and … Continue reading

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Good times at GSB, now We Skate QLD, new roles and new projects xo

Had a super fun 4 years as co-founder at Girls Skate Brisbane (GSB) but in 2020 a lot changed in the world,. From July 2020 GSB will now be known as We Skate QLD with Tora and Evie continuing as … Continue reading

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Pushing Boarders Reflection Part 3

The article 2020 Skate Visions’: Pushing Boarders Reflections 3 was published at Yeah Girl Media at the end of January this year and so much has changed since then. We are now in a global pandemic and in most countries and … Continue reading

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SBS Story on a Bridge Across Skating, Academia and Vietnamese Community

Thanks to SBS News #myaustralia series and Naveen Razik for breaking stereotypes and doing this story on skateboarding, Asian Australian academic and Viet adoptee communities and how me and others carve a sense of home and belonging in them. Posted … Continue reading

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Art Fundraiser for Oz Bush Fires Appeals

  The past couple of months Australia has been facing a national emergency due to an unprecedented number of bush fires right across the country.  In January I am selling art works to raise money for two organisations – The … Continue reading

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Pushing Boarders article 2 for Yeah Girl

The second article (part 2 of 3) I wrote up featuring the perspectives of womxn and non-binary individuals who were at Pushing Boarders in Malmo, Sweden is now up at Yeah Girl. Photos by Norma Ibarra. Edited by Sarah Huston. ‘Get … Continue reading

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Pushing Boarders Videos of Talks Released – University of Skate: Support Your Local Academic

All the videos and audio of the talks at Pushing Boarders – an academic skateboarding conference held in Malmo, Sweden in August 2019 – have now been released. Was such an honour to be invited to talk on the Panel ‘The University … Continue reading

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