All tagged 2019
On October 6, 2019 we hosted our fifth event in Pittsburgh and met our goal of teaching 100 womxn to skateboard in one year. We decorated vegan cookies with social justice baker Jasmine Cho and a portion of the proceeds from the event were donated to The Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month.
At our August 2019 event, we heard from Betty Cruz the founder of All for All, an immigrant inclusion agency, and donated toiletry kits and wrote cards to womxn at the US/Mexico border with Worth Manifesto. A portion of the proceeds from the event were donated to Annunciation House in El Paso, TX.
In July we held our first international event in Toronto, Canada. We were inspired to come to Toronto after we met a group of skate moms from Impact Skate Club on Instagram. For this event, we partnered with Hijabi Ballers, an organization that celebrates visibly Muslim women in sports.
In June we held our first event outside of Pittsburgh, in Maya’s hometown. For this event we worked with the amazing organization, Skate Like a Girl, to provide equipment and instruction at the newly constructed Bay Area Derby Park in an old industrial building in Oakland, CA.
In May we partnered with the Wild Rose Collective as part of their “We Belong” series, highlighting events in spaces womxn haven’t historically been welcomed. Lindsey Smith and Quelcy Kogel introduced us to trailblazing women like Madame CJ Walker.
We kicked off 2019 by partnering with Ta’lor Pinkston, The Heart Advocate, who gave a talk on centered around self-love and getting uncomfortable to help attendees kick off the new year. “The more uncomfortable you are the more powerful you will see that you are.”
