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Learn more about coaching with MaiaI think will be very beneficial for everybody to take a look at the ocean, smell it, listen to if you're brave enough stick your toes in it. It will surprise you. There are some people who have a lot of fears about it but I believe in in learning about dangerous things that you deem fearful. You can go far. With knowledge there comes power. so a healthy education about the ocean with would definitely be a first step I would suggest. Theres a lot of learning to do but comes with steps or waves, if you if you will.
~Brad Turner
Photos of Brad courtesy of Lesley Gourley at https://www.photohunter.net/
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Show Notes
Black Girls Surf on Instagram
Surfrider Foundation Activist Spotlight on Rhonda Harper and Black Girls/Inkwell Surf
Brad Turner on Instagram
Reuters Article on Solidarity In Surf
Historian Alison Rose Jefferson Article about The Inkwell– a historically black beach in Santa Monica
2021 NY Times Article about how black-owned coastal property and generational wealth were stolen
Brief blog post (from the wonderful ‘Color of Water’ series) by historian David Cecelski about The Freeman Family
Psychology Today article about the benefits of Surf Therapy for PTSD
“On Being White and Other Lies” 1984 Essay by James Baldwin
A thought-provoking article on whiteness by a white woman
Blue Mind Research and References
Interview with Blue Mind instigator Dr. Wallace J Nichols on The Unmistakable Creative
Proposal- Surfrider Position
*An update on Brad’s important work:
Brad has gone on temporary hiatus in his work with Black Girls Surf and Inkwell Surf. Check his Instagram for updates! In the meanwhile, this organization and the others listed above continue the inspiring and empowering work of addressing historical inequities and bringing equal access to the waves.
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Transcript
Brad:
I think will be very beneficial for everybody to take a look at the ocean, smell it, listen to if you’re brave enough stick your toes in it. It will surprise you. There are some people who have a lot of fears about it but I believe in in learning about dangerous things that you deem fearful. You can go far. With knowledge there comes power. so a healthy education about the ocean with would definitely be a first step I would suggest. Theres a lot of learning to do but comes with steps or waves, if you if you will.
Intro
Maia: We are deep in the winter of the Great Pandemic. We are losing so much but we are also learning and growing in ways that seem long overdue and right on time. The same week in which I’m recording this introduction, Brad Turner and I did what a zillion other people did, we logged onto a Zoom call. It was a conversation that came about because Brad was and is a generous teacher and collaborator. He’s also walking around with one of the biggest hearts I’ve encountered in the world of ocean-loving humans. The particular Zoom was the latest step in a journey we’d just begun earlier this year, when we recorded this interview. On my Zoom screen were members of the Surfrider Foundation from all over the country logged on for a discussion with historian Scott Laderman author of the book Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing. For those of you who don’t know much about Surfrider, here is the organization’s mission statement:
The Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network.
This conversation with Dr. Laderman was the second in an ongoing series Brad and I are organizing through our local Surfrider chapter and putting up on a YouTube channel...