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Yes! UK - free skate panels, films and art program and excited I get to join in as overseas video speaker alongside so many of my heroes 😍❤️🛹 Convened by Dr Esther Sayers eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-groun…

"Baby Boomers again expressed their disapproval, 36% saying that the inclusion of skateboarding has made them less likely to watch the Olympics." - the drive to make the Olympics appeal to youth is turning off the older generation? mumbrella.com.au/breakdancing-a…

This is a nice bit of grey leisure - kick the cars out walk, cycle, skate and scoot. Re-enchant the city. #greyspaces theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I started my career working in regional development, employment & skills research & policy, then jumped to academia, then to sport-for-development. This was a labour of love (and a fair amount of righteous fury) that rolled together 20+ years of work (& 28 years of skateboarding)

Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue out now in Leisure Sciences for "understanding, critiquing, and (re)imagining relationships between leisure and the Anthropocene" with papers by Journal_of_Slide Monica Nadegger Eva Soares Moura and my skate ecosophy paper. tandfonline.com/eprint/QVQPWCP…

45% of children in the north east live more than a 10-min walk from a playground according to Fields in Trust 💚, almost half. And that’s not even taking into account the accessibility/safety of that walk, or whether it’d be possible unaccompanied. More here: fieldsintrust.org/insights/green…

Good to see these stories, mostly for the comments from all the older skaters... anyone UK older skaters are welcome to reach out to me regarding my research here instagram.com/olderskaterboa…

Getting ontological about kicks... 'Oski's video part is both an ad for an essentially imaginary shoe and an ad for shoes in general.

Would you do a skateboarding GCSE? 🛹 Find out more (via BBC Newsround) ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/newsround/arti…

In @wonkhe - Plans for defunding BTEC qualifications is a stealth way in which HE access and participation can be undone, with a pending large consequence for young men too... wonkhe.com/blogs/defundin…

Tomorrow: Clifton Evers Journal_of_Slide is the next to present on the SSHRED seminar series. He is discussing Polluted Leisure and Just Transitions... more details on the SSHRED site and Insta (New York 7am / London 12pm / Berlin 1pm/ Sydney 9pm) sshredblog.wordpress.com/sshred-seminar…

Okay - I think this one is a masterpiece. One spot, one trick, five years. If anyone is looking for a keen sense of the relationship skater's have to urban space Quartersnacks & Farran Golding 's series provides a superb answer, and this one especially so.

Now available online... "The Fetishization of Sport: Exploring the Effects of Fetishistic Disavowal in Sportswashing". Published in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… | Gary Sinclair

A question for #skatetwitter has anyone ever found that a dream helped them land a trick. This happened to me once, wondering how common it is.

Had the great pleasure of chatting to Quentin from Beyond Boards recently. We spoke about my academic career, skateboarding, and jazz. Big thanks to all the friends who chipped in with their questions. open.spotify.com/episode/2Xwlcx…