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March is International Women’s Month and the 8th of March is the one day a year where women, queers, non-conforming bodies and allies internationally march, protest and revolt against the social and political struggles faced by ‘woman’ identities. It’s loud, disruptive, public, d…

Photography by Charles Pigneul It’s one and a half days until I have to send this issue to the printer (a very common sentence in any skateboarding magazine) and I still have to transcribe this interview. You see, when I visited Thibault Gortina and his companion Charles Pigneul…

Archival photos by Friedjof Feye plus interview, originally published in Essay #15.

When a skater finds an obstacle that works well with their style, speed and trick of choice, it can quickly turn into their dream spot. Dutch skate spots are known to be rough and hard to manoeuvre, so it’s only on rare occasions that a skater truly connects with a spot. I’ve dec…