Girls Skateboarding

A stunningly photographed tribute to female skaters of all ages and backgrounds, from novice to pro—plus an illustrated history of the skateboard, skating tips and tricks, and more.

Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) is the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write-and skateboard-in Kabul. "A dozen small hands shoot up. The girls' answers quickly converge. "Going to school and learning," says one. It's only a handful of years since going to school and learning was forbidden outright for Afghani girls, despite the fact that, as one teacher points out, God himself says (in the Qur'an) that it is everyone's duty to pursue knowledge. Now that the Taliban have been driven back, at least for the meantime, the government says that everyone should go to school, but many children from disadvantaged families don't. Girls, in particular, are often kept at home all of the time.

A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.