'As I learned how to push myself up and glide one foot in front of the other into an awkward sumo stance, perfectly timed with the rise of the ocean’s kinetic energy, I thought of Ghana. Communities of the African diaspora have been surfing for centuries.'
, a health educator and CEO of the community-based education center LOOM, told me that “the baseline for Black womxn is stress." She adds that"Living in a Black body and how society perceives [that] body makes very mundane, very routine activities have an underpinning of extreme discomfort.”
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