Episode Details

Are you willing to lose your privilege in the lineup to uplift someone else? Is surf etiquette linked to the patriarchy? In today’s episode we explore these questions and more. Holly chats with Lizelle Jackson, co-founder of the non-profit Color the Water, a community for BIPOC to reclaim space in the ocean through joyful, defiant anti-racist surf lessons, celebrations, education, and media. Lizelle talks about her childhood, growing up queer and black and what it was like to enter the lineup, among other outdoor spaces, and find very few people who looked like her. Holly and Lizelle chat about rewriting the unwritten rules of surf etiquette and culture, allyship and further explore how our identities shape our ocean experiences.

https://www.colorthewater.org/

Surf With Amigas runs surf coaching and yoga retreats for women in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Morocco, and Indonesia — http://surfwithamigas.com

Episodes produced and edited by Emma Roggenkamp.