In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual group of skateboarders. The young Bolivian women who founded Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colorful, layered ...

Brooke Johnson, 29, became the first woman to skateboard across the U.S. after arriving in Virginia Beach on Friday.

Brooke set out to become the first woman to skateboard across the country and she says she did it all for her stepfather ...

The traditional bowler hats, bright blouses and long, plaited “pollera” skirts of the young women contrast with the skateboards under their feet as they swoop back and forth on the skate ramp ...

What’s next for women’s skateboarding? There is a call for the return of the Women’s Vert competition to the X Games lineup, it last appeared in 2010.

Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall, you have the power to get back up.