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Inside the dreams of the skateboarding girls of Sweden

Video: Mimmi Leckius — The latest in Phil Evans' trippy Lightbox series explores the drive behind a dedicated female skater from Malmo.

Written by: Shelley Jones

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Swedish skate video showcases all the best analogue photo formats

35mm, Large Format, Hassleblad — A new video by Phil Evans pays tribute to analogue photography formats and shows a slice of the Malmö street skating scene.

Written by: Shelley Jones

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Emily Earring skates to avoid the traps of her First Nation reservation

Dispatches from Pine Ridge — In the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, Emily Earring has taken skateboarding by the scruff of the neck and made it her own story.

Written by: Kevin Wilkins

Art

Video: Artist who transformed 100-year-old church into a rainbow skatepark

Okuda x The Church Brigade — Madrid street artist Okuda teams up with The Church Brigade to create a 'Sistine Chapel' for skateboarding.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Skate

How skateboarding is helping to revitalise a village in rural India

Skating, educating and building community — Author, futurist and community activist Ulrike Reinhard founded Janwaar Castle to reinvigorate a rural village through skateboarding.

Written by: Alex King

Film

Teenage Utopia: Skating Through the Lockdown

Skateboarding and unity in Brussels — The Paris attacks pushed Brussels into the centre of Europe's debate about immigration, intolerance and radicalisation. Ursulines skatepark offers a refreshing counterpoint, here kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Video: Skateistan's new year's resolution is to bring skateboards to kids everywhere

Become a 'Citizen of Skateistan' — Groundbreaking NGO Skateistan has shown how skateboarding can be a force for social change in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Now they need your help to keep moving forward.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Mimi Knoop is paving the way to gold for women’s skateboarding

Our day will come — The potential inclusion of skateboarding in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics divides opinion. But the potential benefits for women’s skateboarding could be huge, explains Mimi Knoop.

Written by: Hannah Bailey

Photography

Meet the Brussels skaters overcoming cultural barriers to create their own utopia

Skateboarding and integration — The media has painted Brussels as a city of immigrant ghettos, intolerance and radicalisation. But at Les Ursulines skate park, kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Meet the pioneers of Palestine’s skateboarding scene

Skateboarding knows no religion — Can non-profit project Skatepal help unite the youth in a divided land?

Written by: King Adz

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