Maija quit her job to pursue the adventure of a solo traveler. She tells her story about over coming her fears and learning to travel alone as a young women.

Crushing Collab with the Withitgirl podcast TalkAboutIt series, interviewing people who are CRUSHING on something rad and CRUSHING IT.

THE STATUS QUO: WHAT WOMEN WHO SURF HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT ALL Bikini Blonde Recap: Parts 1, 2, 3 I have discussed the past history of women in surfing from the 1960s to the 1990s in the last three parts in order to better understand the present and future of women’s surfing. I noticed that the materialization of the patriarchy in the 1960s transcended to the 1990s. Instead of literally keeping women from achieving athletic prowess and accomplishment in the sport like in the 1960s, and...

Women surfers were not depicted as athletes in television, songs, and other media in the slightest during the 1960s.

“I sat for many days in the New York Public Library...I found a change in the image of the American woman, and in the boundaries of the woman’s world, as sharp and puzzling as the changes revealed in cores of ocean sediment.” Betty Friedan, "The Happy Housewife Heroine,” The Feminine Mystique In order to best understand the present-day representation of women surfers in the media, it is critical to understand the past history of women’s representation in the sport. While social media...

During my senior year of high school (2018-2019), I participated in a capstone program called Senior Scholars. For my project, I chose to research the history of the representation of women who surf in popular culture and surf-media in the past century. At the end of the year, I wrote a paper summarizing my research. Two years later, with the help of the WithitGirl editorial team, we have together adapted the original paper into a four-part series for the WithitGirl platform. The language and...