Within minutes of meeting Arianna Gil, one of the founders of the all-girls skate collective Brujas, she's pulling up her shirt and showing me the twin scars that hover about the small dimples on her lower back. She earned her war wounds, she explains, the very first time she stepped on a skateboard in New York's Tompkins Square Park, when she was 13 years old. "That was kind of gnarly," she said. "But after my first day skating, I skated every day for the next four years. It became a total addi...
Meet Brujas: The Feminist Skate Crew from the Bronx We've All Been Waiting For
Vogue - 1 Jul 2016 18:32
Within minutes of meeting Arianna Gil, one of the founders of the all-girls skate collective Brujas, she's pulling up her shirt and showing me the twin scars that hover about the small dimples on her lower back. She earned her war wounds, she explains, the very first time she stepped on a skateboard in New York's Tompkins Square Park, when she was 13 years old. "That was kind of gnarly," she said. "But after my first day skating, I skated every day for the next four years. It became a total addi...
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