Brown Girl Surf gets an interview on Time Travel Plans

logo-final 12 18 2011Named in honor of Polynesia’s first female surfers, Brown Girl Surf ™ is dedicated to fostering a diverse, alternative women’s surf community in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world.

We do this by offering surf lessons locally, to introduce women and girls of all ages and backgrounds to the great sport of surfing. We sponsor community events and create media which celebrates female surf culture, highlights the achievements of diverse female surf pioneers, and challenges many of the pervasive media norms surrounding women’s surfing. Through the sale of our products and gear, we sponsor, support, and empower surfing women around the world who are working towards social change.

Mission:

Our mission is to elevate the historical significance of trailblazing female surfers, and to connect them with resources and support (and each other!) so they can continue making waves of change in their communities now and for generations to come.

Read the interview with Brown Girl Surf at Time Travel Plans.

 

 

A Film about Women who surf the cold waters of Ocean Beach

It Ain’t Pretty is a film about women who surf in San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. Over the next year we plan to follow and document these Bay Area women. We want to explore what drives their passion. We will be talking with a variety of women with a range of surfing ability and skills, from the passionate beginner to the professional big wave surfer and find what it is that draws all of these women to surf these unforgiving waters.

 

Read more about It Ain’t Pretty.

It Ain’t Pretty talks with KALW about the real ‘surfer girl’ experience

Not your stereotypical ‘Surfer Girls’ at Ocean Beach

 

 

There’s no denying that the media has latched onto a stereotype of what it is to be a “surfer girl.”

DAYLA SOUL: Like they’re bikini-clad, jumping off of waterfalls and listening to cool girly music, you know? And I wanted something a little more edgy, something a little more of the reality of who we are at Ocean Beach.

Filmmaker Dayla Soul and her team want to challenge those stereotypes by making a surf movie featuring many of the women who regularly surf the gnarly waves of Ocean Beach. It’s called “It Ain’t Pretty.” Hear excerpts from a roundtable discussion between some big-wave female surfers in the film talking about what they face in the water.

To hear the audio for this story, click on the player above.