Photographer Chantal Pinzi travelled the globe to take shots of female skateboarders who defy cultural norms, including this one of Asha GondFor the past few years the Italian photographer Chantal Pinzi has been documenting the rebel spirit of female skateboarders, in a project she calls Shred the Patriarchy. Her original focus was on girls who skated in Morocco, in defiance of cultural norms. She continued that project in rural India, where a handful of women have used skateboarding to stake out public spaces for themselves.One pioneer of this is Asha Gond, who grew up in a farming family in the village of Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. In 2014 a charitable organisation, the Rural Changemakers, helped to fund a skatepark in the village, built with the help of the community as a way of driving social and cultural development. Gond, one inspiration for the Netflix series Skater Girl, learned her skills at the park and became India’s only female competitor at the world skateboarding champ...
Photographer Chantal Pinzi documented Asha Gond, an Indian skater girl and inspiration for the Netflix series *Skater Girl*, as part of her project "Shred the Patriarchy," which focuses on female skateboarders defying cultural norms. Gond, who became India's only female competitor at the world skateboarding championship, used skateboarding to escape arranged marriage and societal expectations, learning her skills at a park with rules prioritizing girls' education and access to the sport.
