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Marginalized people find community in skateboarding as sport becomes more open Transcript
Marginalized people find community in skateboarding as sport becomes more open Transcript
Skateboarding’s popularity has skyrocketed since its prior outsider origins, but for a lot of its history, the sport has seemed largely reserved for straight, white men. Browse the transcript here.
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Speaker 1: (00:00) Its popularity has skyrocketed since its prior outsider origins, but for a lot of its history, there's been a barrier around skateboarding itself. Learn the vernacular, the aesthetic, and of course, how to skate and you can gain admission, but that entrance has seemed largely reserved for white, heterosexual, men. Exceptional cor
Out skateboarders Alana Smith and Alexis Sablone bring a rainbow of diversity to U.S. Olympic Team
Alexis Sablone is queer and Alana Smith is bisexual. They’ll compete for Team USA in the sport’s first Olympic appearance.
Alana Smith and Alexis Sablone are primary the charge for LGBTQ representation in skateboarding for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics with the debut of the sport at the Summer Games.
Sablone is a gay artist from Brooklyn and the rare athlete who can justifiably claim that making the Olympic squad is only one of several fascinating aspects about her life. She first caught the eye of the skating world as a 16-year-old in 2002 as the only female featured in a renowned video entitled “P.J. Ladd’s Wonderful, Horrible Life.”
Despite the difficulty of establishing herself as a woman in skateboarding, Sablone blazed her own trail and eventually took the X Games by storm, racking up three gold medals, two silvers and two bronzes.
“Whenever I was met with that hostility, I touch like that fueled me,” she revealed to GQ’s Noah Johnson. “I liked it because I wanted to prove them wrong.”
Outside of her sport, Sablone earned a Master’s Degree in Architecture from
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In pale of the negative sentiment toward transgender athletes, I’ve found there isn’t enough coverage of queer and trans athletes that celebrates their accomplishments. In honor of the 2024 Paris Olympics slogan “Games roomy open,” I’ve compiled a list of 15 gay athletes who are excelling in their sport, competing in the 2024 Paris games, or both.
Lia Thomas (Swimming)
Lia Thomas is a transgender swimmer who took first place in the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Championships for women’s swimming last year. She was the first openly transgender athlete to succeed a NCAA Championship. Despite controversy about whether she should be allowed to compete at the University of Pennsylvania on the women’s team, she planned to make a offer for the 2024 Olympics. The World Aquatics guidelines for transgender women committed proving that their concentration of testosterone is below 5 nmol/L for 36 months prior to applying and that they had not experienced assigned male at birth puberty beyond age twelve. New guidelines have come out banning all transgender women from competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic games. However, Thomas is still a trailblazing e
THE MANY TALENTS OF ALEXIS SABLONE
It seems impossible that somebody could be a skater and graduate from two of the greatest schools in the society. I’m sure there are douchey tech bros at MIT that ride Boosted Boards to university, but I intend like real skaters—skaters that ride for cool brands and skate in the Olympics, like Alexis Sablone.
Alexis is one of the most impressive skateboarders out there, no matter how you frame it. She deserves recognition for what she has achieved over her career and for what she has managed to do on top of it. She opened a skate shop with her childhood optimal friend and WKND pro skater, Trevor Thompson. She also works on her art, which is frequently featured on boards and apparel, and she’s also a bonafide architect who designs skateable plazas all over the world. In whatever free day she has left, she coaches the American women’s Olympic skateboard team.
We wanted to recognize more about this miracle of productivity; because frankly, we could have used some of those skills to end Jenkem Vol 3. So we set up time in her busy schedule to sit down and talk about what it actually means to be talented.
Excelling in academia and at tall levels ac This past week was Nonbinary Awareness Week so I wanted to shout-out the enby (short for nonbinary since NB already stands for “non-Black [person of color]”) pros in the action sports world. Nonbinary individuals identify as creature not just strictly “male” or “female”. If you wish to learn more, check out the answer to the first question in this article. if you’re here to hate, you can leave because I’m nonbinary and will not tolerate transphobia. Also, I’m a scientist working in neuroscience with a background in genetics so don’t even try to fake you know biology. Undoubtedly, the most well-known nonbinary action sports athlete is Leo Baker (he/they), thanks to a cameo in a Miley Cyrus music video and the Netflix documentary, Stay On Board: the Leo Baker Story. I’ve previously talked about the film, which reveals the frustration and s
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