In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual group of skateboarders. The young Bolivian women who founded Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colorful, layered skirts ...

It’s a rather unusual skateboard lesson. Little girls are lined up to learn to balance on a board on a half-pipe ramp. The teachers are young women from Bolivia, in their teens and 20s, wearing ...

Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall,... In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual ...

Bolivian skateboarders show off their moves at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., in June. In addition to doing demos, they taught skateboard basics to kids as young as 3. (Ben de ...