Drop in

The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding

Deborah Stoll

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HarperCollins
16 July 2024

Biography: sport; Sociology: sport & leisure; Sports & outdoor recreation; Rollerblading, skateboarding, etc

The bad
*ss story of the female, queer, bi, and nonbinary skaters who charted a path to the Olympics and changed the face of skateboarding.

Who gets to tell the story of skateboarding? Drop In is the first book to recognize and historicize the female, queer, bi, and nonbinary humans who blazed the path that led to today's more equitable skate culture. It wasn't easy getting here.

Like the rest of the world, skateboarding has long been patriarchal. In the 70s, it personified the punk rock, lock-up-your-daughters, middle-finger-to-the-man ethos. In the 80s, it was Miami Vice soundtracks and parachute pants, neon graphics and fingerless gloves. In the 90s it was New York City--graffiti, hip-hop, and skating in the street. Rarely did you see a woman's name in a skate video--either on a deck or behind the lens.

The four skateboarders at the heart of Drop In defied expectations of gender, talent, physical ability, and mental capacity to fight the status quo: Alana as the first openly nonbinary athlete in Olympic history; Vanessa as a record breaking runaway; Marbie as an accidental boundary-breaking trans icon; and Victoria as the skate rookie turned social media sensation. Drop In spotlights their paths from rebellious outsiders to recognized pioneers on the historic stage of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, where skateboarding made its debut. Their experiences reveal a side of skateboarding that's never been recorded, amplifying voices that have, for too long, gone unheard.

By: Deborah Stoll
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798874621940
Publication Date: 16 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Deborah Stoll is a journalist, lyricist, writer, and animator. Her work has appeared in The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, and the San Francisco Chronicle, Slake, Swivel and Fresh Yarn. Her band's music has been heard on TV shows like Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Glee, and CSI Miami, and in the movie For a Good Time, Call and the upcoming, Space Cadet. Her first book, Unvarnished, was written with Eric Alperin. Drop In is her second book/first as a solo author. She may hire a ghostwriter for the third.