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Beyond Boards | Dr. Indigo Willing

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Episode 62 with Dr. Indigo Willing, skateboarder, sociology researcher, community leader and author from Brisbane, Australia, also known as occupied Yugarra and Turrbal Aboriginal tribes’ territory.

Together they discuss her Vietnamese origins and settling down in Sydney, Australia with her adoptive family as a young child, how her interest for sociology began and eventually led to completing her PhD, starting to skateboard in 2014 at the age of 41, building communities through various groups such as the Adopted Vietnamese International Initiative (AVI), the Asian Australian Films, Forum and Network (AAFFN), the We Skate QLD network (formerly known as Girls Skate Brisbane), the Consent is rad campaign or more recently the SSHRED Research and Community Network, her most recent book “Skateboarding, Power and Change” written with co-author Anthony Pappalardo, her upcoming projects in Sydney in 2024.

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