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If you are in Cape Town, Salon Hecate is hosting a kiff event showcasing a new novel where surfing drives the plot as well as new academic work on surfing, wild swimming and social / ecological justice in South Africa. Details from Dr Helen Moffett 👇

CFP: Human/multispecies conflict in sport & leisure. Aims to consider human/multispecies encounters that are a source of conflict, and think beyond nature as a place of therapeutic encounter for humans. Excited to work on this with Benjamin Cooke @RMIT_CUR tinyurl.com/3skjus6s

See you there for the swell literature happening Dr Helen Moffett

Cool readings on surfing and wild swimming effects and affects in South Africa. Catching the wave with Byron Loker, Karavan Press, Tammy Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, Nike Romano & Karen Graaff. Thanks Dr Helen Moffett for hosting. Details - noordhoekartpoint.co.za/2024/05/24/cat…

I’ll be joining Stephen Symons at The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective to read some of my ocean-minded and other poems at the end of July in Cape Town. Invite details 👇

I look forward to reading this oceanic story in print Stephen Symons 😎

Thanks Karavan Press for documenting the reading and joining for the evening.

For those interested in critical surf studies and blue humanities, my co-host Karen Graaff and I have launched a podcast focusing on thinking with surfing in the global South, focusing on Africa. Intro and episode 1 are now live, see ⬇️

Check out the next episode of The Deep Duck Dive Podcast - a critical surf studies and hydrofeminist public scholarship project thinking with/in surfing.

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In this new podcast episode ⬇️ Karen Graaff and I discuss surfing’s history in Africa during colonial times. This is part 1 of a 2 part installment. In part 2, out in 2 week’s time, we’ll look to surfing in Africa from 1900 to the present Olympic moment.

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In the next episode of the podcast we discuss how queering surfing spaces makes for a more inclusive surfing culture and reflect on how, due the history of mainstream surfing, some surfing organizations do not provide safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ surfers. ⬇️

Great to see World of Sport out today. Of interest to students (and scholars) of transnational/ global history as well as those interested in sports history and the origins of C21st global sport #sportshistory #globalhistory

I’m looking forward to chatting with you about your short story collection at the launch Stephen Symons