⁣⁣⁣i started INTRSXTN 👉🏽 @intrsxtn_surf 👈🏽to create a safe space for black girls + women and other WOC to enjoy surfing and the ocean.⁣ 🪐🖤🤎 ⁣ what does “a safe space” for that even mean❔⁣ ⁣ ✖️it means safety in the literal sense- safe from all forms of violence- whether physical or verbal. bc we don’t usually feel safe out in the water.⁣ ⁣ ✖️it means safe from the “black tax” of having to be EXCELLENT at any thing and all things, all the time, in order to be perceived as deserving of respect. but in this space, we can get in the water and try new things and try hard things, freely, without someone making us feel like if we don’t posses a certain level⁣ of skill with it then we aren’t welcome. ⁣ ⁣ ✖️it means safe from the frustration of being hyper visible but simultaneously invisible. ⁣ ⁣ ima say that again..⁣👇🏽 ⁣ ✖️it means being safe from the frustration of being hyper visible but simultaneously invisible❕ ⁣ ✖️it means a moment of safety from the gaslighting of fake love, support, work or “progress” toward 🗣actually protecting black women + WOC. out in the water or just out in the world. ⁣ ⁣ bc due to our intersectional identities, in so many of the spaces we occupy, we know how it feels to be unprotected, unsupported, unheard, unseen...⁣ underfunded, underpaid...⁣ overly worked, undervalued ⁣ overly qualified, underestimated...⁣ ⁣ but in this space.. we come⁣ together and take up space.. in the name of sisterhood. ⁣ in this space we can drop all the weight and just have fun, and just be together, and just be free.. and just be.⁣ ⁣ 🌊🌊🌊⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ 📷 @saltwater.mami @colleenaudrey @amarimdixon #intrsxtn #intrsxtnsurf #intrsxtnsurfmeetup #intersectionality #surfing #blacksurfers #surfer #ocean #waves #blackexcellence #blackgirlmagic #surfphotography #surflifestyle #losangeles #california #optoutside #womenofcolor #sisterhood #losangelesphotographer #surfergirl #optoutdoors #blackoutdoors #blackentrepreneurs #melanin #surfing #la