story

"My name is Sima, she/her pronouns. I am the Program Manager for our Skateboarding Inclusivity Cooperative..."

"...also a fundraising and partnership administrator. My name's Alexa, I use she/her pronouns. I'm the program manager for the Seattle Chapter, and I also do content creation. Are you ready? I'm ready."

"Three, two, one. Dude. Aw, they look so good. This is a nice little touch. Let's go. The embroidery came out really nice too."

"In the design committee, there were a few of us that wanted to do corduroy so bad, and I'm really glad that we did. Especially the inside corduroy, I think is a really subtle thing."

"The Dunk toe box is just my favorite for skating, in any circumstance. And the Decon, specifically, I really like because they break in a lot faster. And I like the exposed edge on the tongue."

"The mission of Skate Like a Girl is to promote leadership, confidence and social justice through the platform of skateboarding. Doing anything like a girl, has been used in a derogatory sense. Yep."

"So even though people of our community don't identify like a girl, it's something that we're using to be like, "Anybody could skate like a girl, and that's not a bad thing." I stopped skating altogether when I came out as trans."

"Finding Skate Like a Girl was huge for me to get back involved in skateboarding because I was convinced there wasn't space left in it for me. So seeing a community thriving and existing outside of mainstream skateboarding, really helped me get back into it."

"Giving back to our community is the backbone of who we are. This Dunk is not only about Skate Like a Girl as an entity, but about our community as a whole. All right, we're going to go drop these shoes off to Stew and a few more people. Let's head out."

"This is for you. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. What is in here? What's in the bag? What's in the bag? Oh. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This is it."

"Skate Like a Girl has given so much to me, just personally, even as a skater. I've just been, I think, most impacted by just watching everybody develop into who they truly are."

"It doesn't matter who you are, what your skill level is. When they say, "all levels, all abilities," they mean it. Myself included, I'm a non-traditional skater. I wasn't that person who was out at the park, and Skate Like a Girl provided a sense of community and confidence."

"Thanks for coming, y'all. Thank you so much. Have a good rest of your day. Thank you! All right, Alexa, onto the next one."

"I have a surprise for you. What? This is for you. This bag is crazy. No way. This is so sick."

"I feel like this is really appropriate to what Skate Like a Girl is. Corduroy is so playful, it's very childish, almost."

"I remember maybe a year ago, I would go to a skate park and I wouldn't know anybody, and now I go to a skate park and I know at least one or two people because they know Skate like a Girl."

"I got friends who are older than me, friends who are younger than me, and I would've never expected that kind of diversity in friendship without skateboarding and specifically through Skate Like a Girl."

"Skateboarding is so vulnerable and so... You have to trust yourself. But if there are people around you, who support you and hype you up, it makes trusting yourself even easier."

The Drop-Off: SB Dunk Low x Skate Like a Girl