Our Mission
Girlz+ Skate is dedicated to supporting the non-traditional skateboarding community (incl. girls/women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, queer folks and BIPOC2S+ who skate) through events, workshops, and media. Our programming is designed to help connect skaters to their local communities and facilitate opportunities for collaboration between organizations and individuals from across the world who are working to promote access and inclusion in skateboarding.
Our History
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!
Our programs
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our events
FEATURED ZINE
Skating With Shes & Hers
Created by Smash the Skatriarchy founder and Portland-based zinemaker Amelia Bjesse-Puffin, Skating with Shes and Hers takes a personal approach to exploring the representation of women in skateboarding culture. The series collects the stories and photographs of nearly every woman and non-binary skateboarder Bjesse-Puffin shared a session with over a one-year period beginning in the spring of 2017. Each of its six parts illustrate the richness and diversity of the burgeoning non-traditional skate community.
As Bjesse-Puffin writes in the opening to SWSH #1:
“My initial hypothesis, based on my feelings of nearly always being the only female at the park, was that the end product would be a set of photos so small that it would visually illustrate the absence of women in skating. […] But, as it turns out, I actually do skate with loads of women in a year, proving a null hypothesis. I was wrong. I’m very okay with having proved myself wrong.
The absence of women is very large, no doubt about that, but the presence of females is also large. And that’s what this project celebrates: The presence of girls and women.”
Get In TOUCH
Interested in participating in upcoming events, donating your zine to our catalog, or becoming a Girlz+ Skate Global Ambassador? Contact us!
