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Natalie Porter

Goodreads Author

Born

Canada

Website

https://womxnskatehistory.ca

Genre

Nonfiction, Sports, Memoir

Member Since

July 2020

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/natalieporter

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Natalie is a skater librarian and writer living with gratitude on the traditional territory of the Tla'amin First Nation. She is the founder of the Womxn Skateboard History archive and Instagram account, and was interviewed in Thrasher magazine (May 2025) and Bust magazine (Winter 2023).

In 2003, Natalie wrote a thesis paper called "Female Skateboarders and their Negotiation of Space and Identity" from the perspective of women in skateboarding - a first in academia. Natalie is now a subject expert for the Smithsonian Museum's skateboarding advisory board, and a columnist for Closer Skateboarding magazine.

Natalie has been skateboarding since 1995 and became a librarian in 2009. ...more

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Natalie Porter’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 41 ratings · 8 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Girl Gangs, Zines , and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America by Arielle Greenberg (Goodreads Author), Natalie Porter (Goodreads Author) 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Women in Skateboarding 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Control: the concrete art of skateboarding by Patrik Andersson (Editor), Natalie Porter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kiriko Watanabe (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to the Editors: a journal by Anna M. Szaflarski (Editor), Natalie Porter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Natalie Porter made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please align my book with author profile topic " Hello, I would be grateful if my upcoming book "Girl Gangs, Zines and Powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders" be listed under my author ...more "
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