Pushkin.

I've paddled out with people who had Confederate flag.

That was their surfboard.

This is Martina Durran.

As a black woman, learning to surf in Florida, she was always hyper aware of her identity.

I grew up in Miami and I like to say there's like this imaginary line like when you cross

the beach into the water where the diversity just drops and not just in racial diversity

but gender diversity as well.

You feel like an island out there, right?

You feel like all eyes are on you because you do stick out.

And this is Chelsea Woody.

I do think that I did try harder because I wanted to, you know, I wanted a fit in.

I wanted to be good at it.

I think it pushed me to want to create a space where others felt like they could join

in because I didn't feel like I had that.

I think as African-American women that were interested in surfing, we just didn't see

ourselves represented in the lineups that we frequented and we all had a shared experience

of wanting to change that.

Chelsea and Martina, along with Danielle Black Lions and Gigi Lucas, met on social media.

When you step out into the lineup, you don't typically see folks that look like you and

when you are looking through magazines, we don't typically see African-American women represented

or brown women represented in mainstream surfing.

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