Gay baker3
Week in Review: Pushing Boarders is a Wrap, Stella is on Real, and We’re Still Waiting on Gay Baker 3
Here at SKATEISM, we’re not satisfied with simply being the world’s best (and only) diversity skateboarding magazine. We also want to be the world’s best diversity skate blog. Eventually, we hope both of those things will just gentle of fade into existence a normal magazine with a cool blog, because this is just what skateboarding will look fancy , but for now we’re going to be doing all we can to highlight the underground and overlooked, as per our motto. To that complete, I’m launching this weekly news roundup, which will highlight of all that shit we do love and roast all of that shit we don’t. My goal is to make it something fond Quartersnacks’ Monday Links — funny, informative, and necessary — but just a little less horny for Etienne Gagne. Enjoy!
Words by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue
Okay, speaking of Quartersnacks, Summer Trip to New York ©®™ season is coming to a seal, and while we really enjoyed Ronnie Sandoval doing doubles with Allysha Le in the Chaka Khan AirBnB ad, the Modern York content we really want is still not here. Volcom’s
Saluting Our Sisters: Josephine Baker
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Shuffling Along
Hailed as the world’s first black female superstar, Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906, in segregated St. Louis, Missouri. Baker's parents were formerly enslaved and she grew up on the impoverished streets, often going hungry. It was her strong-willed innateness that drove her to getting recruited for the St. Louis Chorus Vaudeville show, and at the age of 13, she was on her way to New York City. Performing during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Baker soon became an established part of the chorus line of a touring production of the groundbreaking Shuffle Along (1921), often drawing attention to herself by demonstrating improvised, comedic bits on stage.
Baker made the journey to Paris in 1925, opening La Revue Nègre at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and became an instant hit for her unique style of dancing. Swinging her hips and using her entire body in ways Parisian audiences had never seen before, her cultural influence instantly spread throughout the country, and in turn, the earth. In fact, Baker's influence was so widespread, historical boogie te
HOW “BAKER 3” BANGED US OVER THE HEAD
When I was a kid, my parents granted me a bit too much freedom. They’d let me display out at strip malls and depart to local shows put on by shitty bands in dingy all ages venues in the town over. They were a strange mix of dorky tweens, burnouts, and straight edge kids with nothing improved to do, but in the parking lot of one of those shows is where I saw my first Baker board.
As soon as I got home that night I ran to my family’s shared computer to Google “Baker skateboards” and found some Baker 3 parts on YouTube. I was hooked. Watching that video for the first moment gave me the same giddy feeling you get from asking an unwitting classmate to spell “I CUP” or Googling “big boobs” during computer class in middle academy. It felt love I was doing something I wasn’t supposed to, even though I was just watching a skateboard video.
From then on, I rated every skate video based on how it compared to Baker 3: “Not enough hijinx. Not enough hammers. Not enough quotable lines. Not enough Spanky or Ellington.”
Now, Baker 3 is on the brink of turning 15 years old, and its long awaited follow up is nearly here. But over t