These women are challenging stereotypes about surfing, saying brands and the community need to do more to make people of all body sizes feel welcome in the sport
Kanoa Greene was born into a surfing family – but for a long while, she didn’t think she belonged in the ocean. “I’m Hawaiian, and surfing has been part of my family from the beginning. My uncle is a well known surfer in Hawaii, and so I was immersed in that world,” she told CNN Sport. Growing up in Orlando, Florida, Greene spent a lot of time at the beach surrounded by surf culture. But despite longing to surf, she grew up thinking surfing wasn’t a place where she belonged.
“I saw a lot of women passively posed in bikinis at least partially nude they were almost always White. They were almost always skinny and hairless,” added Hill. “They often had blond hair and blue eyes and were very much a heteronormative imagining of what a woman is – and that excludes most women.” These types of attitudes even initially deterred a champion surfer like Risa Mara Machuca. “The boys always made fun of me.
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