Skaters and hosts: click here to register

What is International Girls Skate Day?

International Girls Skate Day is a movement for often disenfranchised skaters (girls/women/non-binary/non-dudes) to support one another by skating on the same day in solidarity, regardless of where they live/shred in the world!

In April 2019, we launched the first International Girls Skate Day and the Girls Skate Day digital map! This map allows skaters, skate shops, and supporters to register and place a pin on our Google map helping skaters from all around the world connect. Our goals are to invite girls, women, and non-binary people to shred, to help them connect with each other, and to encourage them to build their own communities. All ages/skill levels are encouraged to participate, treating people like poop is not!

In 2019, events took place in Boston and Worcester, MA (USA), Montpellier (France), Kathmandu (Nepal). Boston’s event included:

Free admissions by renting out a local park (Acorns)

Free lessons

Free skateboard rental

Free raffle (w/ boards and gear donated by OneGig)

A talk about the Neuroscience of Skateboarding given by one of our organizers in collaboration with the Cambridge Science Festival.

Science, like skateboarding, has a tendency to shut out women/girls-- which is why we teamed up with CSF for Boston GSD! Our main goal is to build inclusive spaces where women/girls/non-binary people are able to explore interests more freely.

This year the event will take place on:

Saturday, April 18th, 2020!!

How can I participate?

* Register here as a skater or host for International Girls Skate Day 2020

* Sign up to volunteer the day of the event ~ email: girlsskateday@gmail.com

* Donate! All our events are free so your donations will help make GSD as far reaching and inclusive as possible.

* Loan/donate boards/protective gear (pick up/drop off can be arranged)

* Host your own International GSD 2020 event! Skate in solidarity with women, girls, and non-binaries on April 18, 2020!

~Please feel free to email us with your thoughts!~

International Girls Skate Day is made possible by;

our friends at Papercut Zine Library, ERA, Sciencepunx, NeuroBoston & community support from shops like OneGig

Registration (for skaters and hosts)

Digital Map

Instagram

Flyer (pdf)

Donate

Zine (pdf)

~~~~~GSD wants to celebrate Fall with you!~~~~~

Meet us at Papercut! Sunday Sept. 29th
located in the Democracy Center on 45 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge Come @4:30pm and we roll out at 5pm!

Memorial Drive is closed off on Sundays until 7pm so we thought it would be a perfect time to skate along the Charles!

Let's pick up where we left off ;) We want to know how yr summer went! Girls and Nb people of all skill levels are welcome! ~

Bring yourself and your wheels // if you have an extra board and are able to bring it along for anyone who doesn't have one that would be great too! See you there :D

~ Hello friends! ~

LOCALS // Do you live in the Boston area? Our local event will be taking place at Riverside Press Park Basketball Courts located at 2 Blackstone Street on the corner of River Street and Memorial Drive. Here’s a link to the fbevent page

We have some updates on Girls Skate Day… but first things first, what is it?

Would you like to support by making a donation? Click here

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WHEN // April 21st 2019 12pm-4:30pm

WHAT // Skate in solidarity!

This is not just a day 2 shred yr spot (it’s that too) but to carve out a space for women & girls of all ages & skill levels… free from judgement or sexualization.

Find ppl in your community through outreach or by filling out info in our survey. You can choose to / or not to have specifics about your contact info show up on a map. The map can be used to find collaborators for your own Girls Skare Day event! (:

These could include; performances, lessons, workshops + panels, skill shares, art + DIY stuff….

WHERE // Based on how you envision skate day where you are, it could be anywhere! Rent out a local park, plan a cookout in yr grandma’s backyard & skate the parking lot… literally anything!

LOCALS // Do you live in the Boston area? Our local event will be taking place at Riverside Press Park Basketball Courts located at 2 Blackstone Street on the corner of River Street and Memorial Drive. Here’s a link to the fbevent page.

This is an international day to skate together! Invite loved ones + friends in far away places to participate! Below is a link to a pdf for the zine, share it!

PDF download:  International Girls Skate Day Zine

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GET INVOLVED //

*Click here to register*

Volunteer Flyer + outreach, table an event, give lessons, set up & break down event…

Sponsor Loan/donate boards, helmets + protective gear + funds, food & water

Be in the next zine! Document what you do on skate day & send it to us!

Draw something, transcribe a workshop or interview, write something, take photos, any medium is welcome! Sky Brown (8yr old pro-skater) will be featured in the upcoming zine! A pdf will be made publicly available.

Email for info / 2 submit girlsskateday@gmail.com

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HOST YR OWN //

2016 Girls Skate Day @ POP Allston (Boston, Massachusetts)

The first Girls Skate Day was in 2016, it was rad (: POP Allston was a community space with an indoor skatepark. We rented it out for our event. People under 18 had to sign a waiver and we created a registration system for loaning/borrowing gear!

Also featuring Free Skate lessons Free rentals Raffle prizes Zine-making & benefit rock show (every band had at least one lady skater musician)

2019 Collaborators

Cambridge Science Festival April 21, 2019

Curiosity drives us to learn more, but what happens when the sign on the door says “No girls allowed”? Much like skateboarding, science doesn’t always feel like a place we are welcomed, let’s change that! CSF aims to make science “accessible, interactive and fun”. The festival will be held all over Cambridge (check back here for updates on our location). Come learn about neuroscience + yr brain (ie can skating shape the way you think?)

Papercut Zine Library

Pzl is a free, volunteer-run browsing library with a collection consisting of 16,000+ zines & independent media. We operate on a non-hierarchal consensus based model. Papercut is involved with a variety of community outreach projects from workshops on harm reduction to zine-making at public libraries and schools.

PZL is also a meeting space for folx to meet, organize, and collab. era his a group that collabs with PZL to bring you events like anarchofest, sciencepunx harm reduction literature, and GSD + other fun community goodies.

Sciencepunx

A spawn of ERA, SciencePunx has worked with PZL to bring you harm reduction literature, anarchofest, GSD + other fun community goodies. Other collaborators and friends include:

Big Sister Association of Boston

NeuroBoston

Boston GIrls Rock Camp

4.

CONNECT //

Click here to register

Click here to download the zine

Click here to make a donation.

girlsskateday@gmail.com

insta: girlsskateday

girlsskateday.org

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REGISTER HERE:
https://qtrial2019q1az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1HzSIzbwbTllSmh
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A day to make space for girls/women/non-dudes to shred their spot.
To participate, register (link above) and skate on April 21 wherever you are. Everyone who is registered will be added to an archive of girl/non dude skaters on a google map. When you register, let us know which city, state, country or city, country you'll be skating in.That's it!

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FYI: Your contact email will not be listed unless you opt in and want other skaters/sponsors/local skatespots to contact you. Yes, you can use an alias! Check back a few days after you register to see yourself on the GSD map/archive of non-dude skaters.

BOSTON LOCALS:
Our event will be part of the Cambridge Science Festival on April 21, 2019. There will be free skate lessons from 12-4pm then at 4pm we will be sharing info on the neuroscience of skateboarding and how it alters your brain and physiology. (We will also share some socio/anthro tidbits on how skating is a revolutionary act for girls and women). Location TBD, check back April 10!!


Your skate instructors will be:
Cathy Cathodic
Lucy Green
The Green Giant
Abigail White

(Want to join the skate instructor team? Let us know, we have two more spots open)

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Boston, are you a dude who wants to support? Lend us your board on 4/21 from 12pm - 4pm! Or do you live outside of Boston and want to list your own GSD event? Get your park listed on the GSD map as a host by registering (same link) and sharing this event page.

REGISTER HERE:
https://qtrial2019q1az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1HzSIzbwbTllSmh
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REGISTRATION DETAILS:
* You can register as an individual skater, team, and/or host
* When you register, let us know which city, state, country or city, country you'll be skating in and your name/alias will be displayed on the GSD map (these will be uploaded by hand so coming soon)
* If you're a skatepark, skate shop, or have a half pipe/parking lot and want to host a GSD event (or maybe you want to find other girls/women to skate with in your area?) be sure to opt to display your contact info when you register. Default settings will hide all information other than alias/city unless you opt in to share contact info. There are only two requirements if you'd like to host. 1) the space is made available to girls/women only and that entry is completely FREE.
* If you'd like to find other skaters or hosts in your area, check the GSD map for folx with contact info
* If you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, you can RSVP for the FREE Cambridge Science Festival GSD event (12pm - 4pm on April 21st) during registration. Location TBD (probably Lynch Family Skatepark but we're still waiting for the offical okay). At 4pm we will have a little blurb/chat about how skateboarding can change your brain and physiology. If you are not in the area, keep an eye out for out next zine that will include the neuroscience of skateboarding and maybe a pic of you shredding? I mean, if you want
* to be in the next GSD zine, you can post or send a pic, art work, GSD international feels or don't! =D

To learn more or download the first zine, go to girlsskateday.org and in the menu, choose the GSD tab. Questions? Message us, don't be shy we wanna help you shred regardless of your skill level or age




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Since this is an international event, start/end times should be adjusted to whatever makes most sense in your city ♥
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