This women’s surf collective has made it their mission to bring greater inclusion and camaraderie to the water.
underwritten by the women’s surf and swimwear company Seea. Seea initiated the partnership last year and gave Textured Waves full creative control, allowing them a platform to share their own message. “The film was a storyline that I developed a few years ago,” Woody explains. “It’s based on the historical imagery you see of surfing. Just by sharing [our own] imagery, we hope folks will question who they have seen in these spaces and why we don’t see a ton of Black beach culture images.
, all of which have been personally vetted—a practice they hope is not lost in the current rush towards allyship.Photo: Courtesy of Nick LaVecchia /At the core of Textured Waves’ mission is the oft-forgotten importance of image culture and image-making. “We all had a shared experience—when you search for Black surfers, there was one image that popped up,” Black Lyons explains. “It was a White savior pushing an African American child into the wave, and that wasn’t our experience surfing.
But symbolism is only one aspect of what Textured Waves hopes to achieve. There is a particular urgency behind creating more pathways to water sports for Black youth. “Black children are five times more likely to drown than white children, ,” Black Lyons shares, in part because of a lack of access to training and a prevalent Western assumption that Black people do not belong in the sea.Photo: Courtesy of Nick LaVecchia /Most of Textured Waves’ founders came to surfing later in life. Besides the more systemic impediments, including hierarchy in the lineup in California and Hawaii and Confederate flag surfboards in Florida, a lot of this delay had to do with hair: Most of them chemically straightened their hair as teens.
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