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The path to the @socialskatesummit was paved, in-part, by @pushingboarders whose co-founder and organiser @chomtallan features in @dubinphoto’s dispatch.

In years since the first Pushing Boarders at @thebartlettucl and House of Vans (2018) and its subsequent event at @bryggerietskateorg (2019), alternative forms of knowledge exchange in skateboarding have become more common.

The likes of in @ryan_lay’s @slowimpactaz in Tempe, Arizona, @leovallsconnected’s @connect.skaturbanism.festival in Bordeaux, France, @adjacencybias’ upstart ‘Adjacent’ in Portland, Oregon or @skatenottingham’s ‘Skateboarding and the City’ festival are, like the summit, just a few of the global opportunities for both the activity and cerebral discussion of skateboarding to take place.

Find Lee Dubin’s photo diary of the Social Skate Summit at skatebylines.com (link in bio) or listen to a primer on their story wherever you get your podcasts.

📝 + 📸 @dubinphoto

@socialskatesummit @citymillskate @keeprolling_co @thegoodpush

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Those who believe in skateboarding as a vehicle for social good conveyed from far and wide for the first @socialskatesummit in late May.

“What emerged was a global gathering of people who believe, to varying degrees and in many forms, that skateboarding has the power to change the world,” writes Lee Dubin who was on the ground across a then unprecedented (and now seemingly commonplace 🥵) heatwave of a weekend in London.

Across @UCL’s East Campus and venturing to @longlivesouthbank and beyond, ideas were shared and moments cherished in this gathering of some of skateboarding’s most progressively-minded individuals and groups, organised by @keeprolling_co, @citymillskate and @thegoodpush.

In a thoughtful photo essay for Skate Bylines, Dubin explores the emergent word of “social skateboarding” organisations and individual where the joy of the endeavour is the whole point.

Live now at skatebylines.com (link in bio) and available in wherever you get your podcasts

📝 🎙️ 📸 written, read and photographed by @dubinphoto
📻 audio editing and production by @farrangolding

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Book co-edited by the wonderful @peejhk (who coined the term grey spaces in this context), myself, @benjamin_duester and Sander Holsgens.

Contributors include:
@chris_guymariano
@skate.or.phi
@anchovy_everything
@bryce.noe
@skateparkstraceandculture
and more

Such care is taken by the authors in each chapter to think about the world as connected and needing deep dives into where we play and how we can navigate our ‘polluted leisure’ as @journal_of_slide conceptualized our worlds. The answer isn’t greenwashing but a deeper understanding of co-existence and creative adaptation.

These are strong research-based chapters on skateboarding, BMX, playgrounds, surfing and more and nods to the foundations of where their work is in conversation, not isolation with the growing number of research peers and earlier pivotal works. Authors from Indigenous philosophy to women scholars studying BMX in China to the wave pools in Korea share insight.

We can forge new ways of thinking and doing what we love with maximum benefit for all.

Am thankful for such colleagues here who act out of a love of both ideas and people. Especially in an era of increasing entrepreneurial stampeding over meaningful reflection, and popularity over principles in skating.

Especially refreshing being around original thinkers like @peejhk who are ethical and genuinely innovate, and respectfully collaborate and are offering ways for us to all create and regenerate.

Book is partly open access and while typically expensive ( as often is with Routledge), hopefully can be purchased by libraries to make them free to public in ebook form and hardback. Talk to your library 📖❤️ and us.

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Happy 25th Anniversary @skatelikeagirl 🎉🛹 and thankful for the organization’s support and collaborative outreach from day 1 of our #consentisrad campaign launch at @pushingboarders in Malmo to our evolving initiatives at @respectisrad

Since our launch in @pushingboarders in 2019 @skatelikeagirl has collaborated with us through their stencil and pop up art zones, community talks, in zines, skate magazines and through all kinds of communication and education work at large skatepark events, retreats, camps and awareness tee collabs. We also are thankful to their mentoring and solidarity across our efforts to keep skating rad 🛹🙏🏽

Images:

25th Anniversary event for @skatelikeagirl in Oakland

Kristin Ebeling Kim Woozy
Ash Masters with Consent is Rad on their board, a sign and stickers

@skatelikeagirl x @respectisrad x @tactics tee fundraiser collab

Skate Like a Girl Social Project of the Year nominees 2023

Equal first place award shared in a tie with @nationskateyouth

Thank you from @respectisrad team: @goodwillinghunting @miljabubba @evieryder and all our volunteers, collaborators and other #consentisrad co-founding team members

📷 @goodwillinghunting and @skatelikeagirl

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The new issue of Goblin Magazine has a 10-page article about the Notts scene, @skatenottingham, @tramlinespot & aspirations for the future of our city, written a little while back by SN co-founder and director, Chris Lawton (@glawter_snacks).⁣
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Here we’ve pulled out a few key quotes covering a variety of the different themes discussed in the piece - get yourself a copy via @goblinskatemag_ to read the full article, and scroll through this post to catch a classic line from Chris in Copenhagen! 💥⁣
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Big thanks to Phili & the team for including big Notts in this one. 👊💚⁣
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#nottinghamskateboarding #ukskateboarding #skatenottingham #socialenterprise #skateandcreate #tramlinespot #sneintonmarket #nottingham #skateurbanism #goblinskatemag

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Some of my free articles from 2014 - 2024 on remarkable women, non-binary and non-traditional skateboarders.

Topics vary from the interviews with Chloe Covell, Evie Ryder and Kat Williams on the value of fun, community care and inclusion that unfolds alongside the Olympics, a sneaker exhibit by Ligaya Salazar, how Dogtown and Skate HoF inductee Peggy Oki, Dine Navajo skater Cecely Todacheene of Enchantment shop, Decks for Change and designer Kirby Clark, Girl Skate India founder and DJ Atita Verghese and ecologist and marine biology grad Tora Waldren are thinking about the environment, 32 women, non-binary and queer change-makers from the Pushing Boarders conference (3 part series), rapper K-May, Aunty Skates, skate agent Yulin Olliver, Dine Navajo artist and skater Di’orr Greenwood and change-maker Kim Woozy who was pivotal to leading women’s skate media platforms by founding Mahfia and social skate development her years as part of Skate Like a Girl

Some of my academic articles are paywalled (email me for any not free access) but all my journalism articles are free online except for a Skateism article with collective focus on Spinifex Skateboards, Death to Discrimination, Bloom Skateboarding and Lil Grl Art (print only).

All of my 76 in total publications/other outputs (academic, journalism, books, chapters, blogs and reports and #SkateCER video series) are listed on my website / writing section / link in bio or www.indigowilling.com

@abc_sport @siren_sport
@yeahgirlskateboarding
@quellskate
@skateism
@360info_global
@broadagenda5050
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@lapir0 Pushing Boarders
@peter_roborg_sondergaard
@linneabullion
and more (credits in images)

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We skate and create - clips from our original launch at @pushingboarders 2019 by @goodwillinghunting and 1st year #consentisrad - in 2024 we are transforming into the broader campaign @respectisrad

Resources on our web - link in bio

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Eight years ago I interviewed @iainborden for a short film on the link between skateboarding and urban design, with @lukemonisse and @masonbrown. This week I spoke to him again for an episode on the same topic for Monocle On Design. A nice full circle moment. 📸 @hannieratz

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@pushingboarders talk in August 2019 in Malmö.

A bit of history on how #Bordeauxcity dealt with skateboarders/skateboarding from early 2000 to 2016 and the disruptive change of strategy since 2017 triggered by @leovallsconnected and which had been inspired by @skatemalmo.se way of working via #skateurbanism.

Link of the full video in Bio.

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A huge thank you to everyone who completed our 2023 Social Skate Survey! 🎊

We received an incredible 135 responses from 42 countries 🌍🛹

Now time to start analysing the results...Stay tuned! 🤔

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Você sabia... nossa pesquisa sobre projetos sociais de skate está disponível para preenchimento em português? 🧐

É verdade! O prazo final é 15 de outubro, então aja rápido! (link in bio!) 🛹🌺

@pushingboarders
@skateistan
@cbskskate

Huge thank you to @cibelepersonal for the translation 🙏🏼

#socialskateboarding #skateboarding #survey

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