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Iain Borden

Iain Borden

Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, UCL

Freed from the confines of California, having cast aside narrow stereotypes as to who a rider should be, skateboarding’s newfound diversity is its greatest stren

How Skateboarding Flipped Its White Male Image and Welcomed the Whole World

5 min read Jun 8, 2018

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