While reporting Long Lead's feature TITLE WAVES in Hawaii, writer Kim Cross had the opportunity to go on a paddle out and spread some of her mother's ashes. The journalist recalls that she had the "best surf of my life" with her mother's mana surfing with her.
"And I started looking at the patterns that were developing over time of the fight to for codification and enforcement and vigilance and how there was this pattern that without constant vigilance and a fight to enforce this law, we backslide. So over the years, you know, women are fighting for these rights and they get codified into law, but enforcement is totally a different story. And often enforcement doesn't happen without a fight. And I had grown up not really, I guess I had grown up taking a lot of my rights as a female athlete for granted. I grew up water skiing on a catfish pond in Alabama. Oh, okay. We felt like big brothers and they like, we rough housed and they, you know, they would slam dunk me in the pond and I didn't, it wasn't abuse. It was just, they treated me like one of the boys and to me, that was a great gift. So I think because of them, I grew up moving through the world like, you know, I don't know, behaving like an average male athlete. And I, that was a gift. So learning all of this history made me feel a debt of gratitude for the women who paved the way and fought the fights to change the world that I inherited and how every generation fights from ground gained by the generation before in their fights. This is Long Lead."
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While reporting Long Lead's feature TITLE WAVES in Hawaii, writer Kim Cross had the opportunity to go on a paddle out and spread some of her mother's ashes. The journalist recalls that she had the "best surf of my life" with her mother's mana surfing with her.
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