Olive Bowers is not exactly a veteran of the ocean, but at 13 she has enough experience to know what she likes and what she doesn’t when it comes to surfing. Best is catching a clean wave in the summer; worst is some of the sexism that still lingers in the sport.
What she encountered when she picked up a copy of Tracks magazine, which bills itself as ”the surfers’ bible”, prompted her to write a fierce letter to its editor, Luke Kennedy, objecting to the way it portrays women.
As Bowers flicked through the pages, she was surprised to encounter only one picture of a woman: ”She was called … More
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