Mike Smith, Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys, charged with sexual assault

It was not the post about an X Games vert champion or someone catapulting themselves down multiple sets of stairs on a skateboard that received immediate support from followers on my Instagram account. The post featured Liz Bevington (RIP)—a German-born, Venice Beach misfit who learned to skateboard at age fifty-two in 1976. She wasn’t content to sit around and watch her son have all the fun, and when Bevington was eventually widowed, skateboarding became her core social outlet. The history of women in skateboarding is the focus of my account, and the popular post included photos of...