“Women have skateboarded consistently throughout the decades, but they were forced underground in the 1980s when the skateboarding industry rebranded itself as a pursuit exclusively for boys, despite an equitable origin story in the 1960s and ’70s.
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“Women have skateboarded consistently throughout the decades, but they were forced underground in the 1980s when the skateboarding industry rebranded itself as a pursuit exclusively for boys, despite an equitable origin story in the 1960s and ’70s.
In retaliation, a group called the Women’s Skateboard Club was founded in 1986. It expanded into the Women’s Skateboard Network in 1988.”
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/03/06/Joyful-Wrath-Skater-Librarian/
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“Women have skateboarded consistently throughout the decades, but they were forced underground in the 1980s when the skateboarding industry rebranded itself as a pursuit exclusively for boys, despite an equitable origin story in the 1960s and ’70s.
In retaliation, a group called the Women’s Skateboard Club was founded in 1986. It expanded into the Women’s Skateboard Network in 1988.”
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/03/06/Joyful-Wrath-Skater-Librarian/
I’m so in love with the idea of rogue librarians and archivists.
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“Women have skateboarded consistently throughout the decades, but they were forced underground in the 1980s when the skateboarding industry rebranded itself as a pursuit exclusively for boys, despite an equitable origin story in the 1960s and ’70s.
In retaliation, a group called the Women’s Skateboard Club was founded in 1986. It expanded into the Women’s Skateboard Network in 1988.”
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/03/06/Joyful-Wrath-Skater-Librarian/
"Librarians are a mysterious coven. We sometimes go rogue when faced with book bans and often have secret identities."
https://thewalrus.ca/meet-the-librarian-resurrecting-the-lost-women-of-skateboarding/
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"Librarians are a mysterious coven. We sometimes go rogue when faced with book bans and often have secret identities."
https://thewalrus.ca/meet-the-librarian-resurrecting-the-lost-women-of-skateboarding/
@UnconventionalEmma We do not speak of the Order of St Jerome. But we will lend you these books about it.
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I’m so in love with the idea of rogue librarians and archivists.
@UnconventionalEmma I wrote a whole story about people like that.
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@UnconventionalEmma I wrote a whole story about people like that.
@felix And where would we find that?
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@felix And where would we find that?
@UnconventionalEmma Right here: https://felix.plesoianu.ro/sci-fi/short/autumn-festival.html tough it's not exactly what you describe.
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