This week on Good Luck With That, Ashley sits down with Natalie Porter — skateboarder, librarian, historian, and author of Girl Gangs, Zines & Power Slides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.

Natalie’s work spans more than two decades of research documenting women’s skateboarding history not as a footnote, but as a through-line. We talk about rage as fuel, the power of self-documentation, why every generation thinks they’re “the first,” and what it actually takes to preserve culture when the industry won’t do it for you.If you care about skateboarding, culture, history, or who gets remembered, this one matters.Girl Gangs, Zines & Power Slides is available now through indie bookstores and libraries. Explore Natalie’s living archive at womensskatehistory.ca.

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This week, it’s a host-only catch-up that accidentally turns into a State of the Union for women’s progression across everything: skateboarding, surfing, and the weird new reality where the podium is basically a youth movement.

Nora takes us inside Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch (secret-ish Red Bull project, plus a quick detour into Blue Crush lore and why “Pipeline’s for the f**king girls” still hits. Then Mimi reports back from Kitakyushu, Japan, where the World Skate street stop looked like the future: 12–16-year-olds landing ender-level tricks on command, an East Asia sweep, and a competitive field that’s leveling up faster than anyone can handle.

We also get into the messy middle of Soty. Why social media is getting banned for under-16s in Australia (and what that means for young pros) And yes, we end in Tasmania, looking for a Christmas tree branch and celebrating a rewilded Bennett’s wallaby named Annie, because this is Good Luck With That.

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Live from La Paloma Theater during Exposure weekend, we time-travel through the heroic history of women’s skate contests from the 1960s to 2025: babysitting offers instead of sponsors, Judi Oyama bombing hills at 70, CB era, winning a car and immediately crashing it, X Games walkouts, equal pay fights, All Girl Skate Jam, WOF, Exposure, the absolute stunning fashion of it all, and so much more. It’s an appreciation letter, a roast, and a reminder that no one came to save women’s skateboarding; we just did it ourselves.

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