France After an incredible week of serendipitous, fulfilling encounters and experiences in London - long bike rides with new friends, exploring the city with skaters from Girls Can’t Skate crew, soaking in lessons from Pushing Boarders, and catching up on some much needed rest and artmaking, I took an 8 hour bus from London to …
Pushing Boarders 2018: The Beginning of a Movement
The Decision I found out about Pushing Boarders through my dear friend M. Dabbadie (they/them), who was invited to the inaugural conference in London to speak at a panel titled Not just some homogenised bullshit': Skateboarding and the Gender-Identity Evolution. M. asked me to come support them due to their discomfort with public speaking and …
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Coin Flips and Contemplations
When I was visiting Angkor Wat near Siem Reap, Cambodia, I flipped a a 50-cent coin my mother gave me prior to leaving the States in June 2017. I used this coin throughout my Watson year to make decisions in moments, especially in moments of indecision or when I simply felt unattached to any one …
