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The Vocal Local: I’m joining women in calling out misogyny in skateboarding

The Vocal Local: I’m joining women in calling out misogyny in skateboarding

Tim Christian recently returned to his own teenage pastime with his young daughter and he's shocked at the misogynistic attitudes some female skaters endure. In his response to SLAG Collective's Vocal Local piece on the backlash they have received for speaking out against it, he argues that the personal is political and calls for male allyship for women and girls who skate. I’m something of an old man of the Blackpool skate scene these days, having first picked up a board as a young lad in the dim and distant days of around 1999/2000 and, after a significant hiatus to…
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The Vocal Local: Why we still need to Reclaim SLAG

The Vocal Local: Why we still need to Reclaim SLAG

The Skate Like a Girl Collective joined forces with Reclaim Blackpool to call out misogyny and empower women, but are now facing backlash from the skate community. Here, the founder of Reclaim, Antonia Charlesworth Stack, shares three of their stories I’m dancing in the small hours. My friends playing a joyous DJ set of empowering songs. One of them, the female-born drag queen Ava King Cyanosure, has been entertaining us for hours with her incredible moves on stage. Some outstanding local female musical talent - Imogen Evans and Daisy Atkinson - warmed us up earlier, both of them brandishing their…
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