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"content": "\u003cp>The writer \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977843348/venture-aims-to-resurrect-and-reimagine-anti-slavery-newspaper-for-the-21st-cent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ibram X. Kendi\u003c/a> has been reading a lot of books to his five-year-old daughter, Imani. And when he chooses those books, he makes sure they include many kinds of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also really excited now because her favorite color right now is the rainbow,” he says. “And so I feel like we’re doing something right because I constantly emphasize this sort of human rainbow and appreciating it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendi is the author of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/14/814630039/a-history-book-that-isnt-finding-a-way-to-teach-racism-to-a-new-generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. He also produced a youth version of that work, a chapter book called \u003cem>Stamped for Kids\u003c/em>. So as we discuss summer reading on current events, we asked him to recommend some other books for younger readers on race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13894928']But because we’ll be talking about books on race for young people, I also wanted to ask Kendi about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1001055828/the-brewing-political-battle-over-critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unfolding debate over the teaching of race in schools\u003c/a>. “It’s been tragic for me to watch,” Kendi says. “Because we unfortunately live in a society where there’s racial inequity, and our kids are trying to figure out why. They see, you know, let’s say darker people who are more likely to be homeless or incarcerated or impoverished, and they’re trying to figure out why is that the case? And if we’re not actively teaching them it’s because of racism, then what are they going to conclude? The way we can protect them is by actively teaching them about racism. And so I think it’s dangerous to not teach kids about why inequality exists in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether anti-racist education means being told white equals terrible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any good teacher who’s going to teach about racism, and also its history, are going to teach about people of different races who were involved in abolitionist struggles, who were involved in the civil rights movement, who are trying to create an equitable and just society today. So what a white student will learn is, they’ll learn about a white slaveholder and a white abolitionist, and they’ll learn about why both said what they said and did what they did, and they’ll learn which one had the morally right and just position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether these lessons are better taught at home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think these lessons are better taught everywhere. And I think when our teachers are teaching it and the parents are teaching it and, you know, aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins and friends, and we’re just we’re so focused on ensuring that this next generation of Americans can view different-looking groups as equals and can ultimately eliminate this scourge of racism that this nation has faced. We’re collectively focused on that. I mean, to me that’s what sort of gets me excited. And that’s why I’m so excited about the books that are being produced today that can allow us as parents and caretakers and teachers to facilitate these conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kendi’s reading recommendations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899080 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81njqco8tzl_custom-941ed7bb4563e64fcb8e6a6a541f885042bc6a9a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81njqco8tzl_custom-941ed7bb4563e64fcb8e6a6a541f885042bc6a9a.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81njqco8tzl_custom-941ed7bb4563e64fcb8e6a6a541f885042bc6a9a-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Dear Martin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Dear Justyce\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, by Nic Stone\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dear Martin\u003c/em> is about a young African American teen who is going to a private school, and is really grappling with his his own identity. And so he ends up, in the book, writing a series of journal entries exploring the life of Martin Luther King to really understand his own identity. And, you know, I think teens everywhere—but especially black teens—are constantly trying to understand who they are. The second book, \u003cem>Dear Justyce\u003c/em>, which is one of Justyce’s friends who’s incarcerated, writing to Justyce … about what really happened, why he’s innocent, but even more importantly about the juvenile justice system. You know, I love when books encourage young people to write and to express themselves, and certainly these two books do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899081 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/91sqy8mp0dl_custom-d62ee53c19e88b952af220cd0f7550d9c4f8bb12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/91sqy8mp0dl_custom-d62ee53c19e88b952af220cd0f7550d9c4f8bb12.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/91sqy8mp0dl_custom-d62ee53c19e88b952af220cd0f7550d9c4f8bb12-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Brown Girl Dreaming\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, by Jacqueline Woodson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This book is really a memoir in verse about her life and her upbringing in South Carolina and in New York. And it’s really a book that allows a young person to really explore what it means to be a child, particularly a child in this world. But I think what I really found fascinating about this book and why I can’t wait ’til [my daughter] reads it one day, you know, is because you can just tell through this text just how much Jacqueline came to love stories and storytelling despite the fact that she struggled to read as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Poet X\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, by Elizabeth Acevedo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Acevedo is obviously one of the more gifted writers of our generation, and she writes about a character … Xiomara, who has all these frustrations as she’s growing into herself, and she learns to pour these frustrations and these passions into poems. And she recites them to herself and wants to perform them, and knows her overbearing caretakers would not approve, but this is her outlet, this is the way she wants to speak and share herself, and ultimately she refuses to be silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899083 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81isnktojul_custom-1ed14edaafdfcaab910f602fee4e179d48f32fc1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81isnktojul_custom-1ed14edaafdfcaab910f602fee4e179d48f32fc1.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81isnktojul_custom-1ed14edaafdfcaab910f602fee4e179d48f32fc1-160x239.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter\u003c/strong>,\u003c/em> by Erika L. 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And I think when our teachers are teaching it and the parents are teaching it and, you know, aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins and friends, and we’re just we’re so focused on ensuring that this next generation of Americans can view different-looking groups as equals and can ultimately eliminate this scourge of racism that this nation has faced. We’re collectively focused on that. I mean, to me that’s what sort of gets me excited. And that’s why I’m so excited about the books that are being produced today that can allow us as parents and caretakers and teachers to facilitate these conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Kendi’s reading recommendations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899080 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81njqco8tzl_custom-941ed7bb4563e64fcb8e6a6a541f885042bc6a9a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81njqco8tzl_custom-941ed7bb4563e64fcb8e6a6a541f885042bc6a9a.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/81njqco8tzl_custom-941ed7bb4563e64fcb8e6a6a541f885042bc6a9a-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Dear Martin\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Dear Justyce\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, by Nic Stone\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dear Martin\u003c/em> is about a young African American teen who is going to a private school, and is really grappling with his his own identity. 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You know, I love when books encourage young people to write and to express themselves, and certainly these two books do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13899081 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/91sqy8mp0dl_custom-d62ee53c19e88b952af220cd0f7550d9c4f8bb12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/91sqy8mp0dl_custom-d62ee53c19e88b952af220cd0f7550d9c4f8bb12.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/91sqy8mp0dl_custom-d62ee53c19e88b952af220cd0f7550d9c4f8bb12-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">Brown Girl Dreaming\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, by Jacqueline Woodson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This book is really a memoir in verse about her life and her upbringing in South Carolina and in New York. And it’s really a book that allows a young person to really explore what it means to be a child, particularly a child in this world. But I think what I really found fascinating about this book and why I can’t wait ’til [my daughter] reads it one day, you know, is because you can just tell through this text just how much Jacqueline came to love stories and storytelling despite the fact that she struggled to read as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Poet X\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>, by Elizabeth Acevedo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Acevedo is obviously one of the more gifted writers of our generation, and she writes about a character … Xiomara, who has all these frustrations as she’s growing into herself, and she learns to pour these frustrations and these passions into poems. 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Eventually Luca and Alberto make their way into town, which is gorgeously designed in a way we’ve come to expect from Pixar: The director Enrico Casarosa, working from a script by Jesse Andrews and Mike Jones, composes an exquisite visual love letter to Italy’s cobblestoned streets and scenic piazzas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luca and Alberto befriend an outgoing young girl named Giulia and enter a local triathlon where one of the events is—what else?—a pasta-eating contest. 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Ross\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_106765']Ross got very mopey over the show’s ten seasons, and he developed a temper at one point and started yelling at his co-workers, and he said Rachel’s name during his wedding to Emily, and it took him forever to stop resenting Susan for being married to Carol, and so forth and so on. But I must say, I was still impressed to see that Ross received 76 percent of the thousands of votes for Worst Friend that came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s so many! That means that if the other five Friends were statistically similar to our listeners, 3.8 of them would have thought he was the worst one in the group! Hopefully, Monica wouldn’t, since that’s his sister, so out of the four Friends he’s not related to, only .2 people—like, just Phoebe’s arm—picked anybody other than Ross as Worst Friend! Maybe he should have abandoned the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67RYI_0sc0&ab_channel=TheGodAccount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pivot Couch\u003c/a> earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"A pregnant Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) lies in a hospital bed, with Ross (David Schwimmer) at her bedside..\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-768x503.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-2048x1342.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/gettyimages-1132327_enl-ca60cd2925807382c606aae4620a08d83fabda91-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Ross (David Schwimmer). \u003ccite>(Warner Bros. 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I wouldn’t want to be there when the laughter stops.” Chandler’s position here, near the top, is probably a product of his sharp wit and the degree to which his sense of humor came to define the show’s voice, in spite of what I would argue was eventually his exhausting and relentless funny-guy neediness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDqE2MZiXCY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Phoebe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13897888']Of course it’s Phoebe! Phoebe didn’t nail down Best Friend with quite the emphatic stomping that Ross nailed down Worst Friend; she received 50 percent of the vote for Best Friend. But given that there are six Friends to choose from, it’s still a clear and resounding victory. Phoebe was always the gentlest and the nicest of these people, despite what had been a tough upbringing and a lot of pain. She found love with a couple of different lovely partners, including Hank Azaria’s David and then Paul Rudd’s wonderful Mike Hannigan, and nobody deserved true happiness more. She carried triplets for her brother, she played the guitar, and she would do anything she could for any of these goofballs, even when they were ridiculous. What’s not to love?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast panel includes Barrie Hardymon, Sam Sanders, and Bedatri D. Choudhury. The audio was produced by Jared M. Gair, and edited by Jessica Reedy. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Muslims are very rarely depicted in movies, and when they are, it’s usually as a stereotypical terrorist, \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/film/news/riz-ahmed-muslim-study-usc-annenberg-inclusion-initiative-pillars-fund-1234993247/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what Oscar nominated actor Riz Ahmed calls a “dangerous trope.”\u003c/a> Having spoken out about this issue for several years, he’s been looking for hard data. Now’s he got it. This week, The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative came out with the report he asked for. It’s titled \u003ca href=\"https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-muslim-rep-global-film-2021-06-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Missing and Maligned: The Reality of Muslims in Popular Global Movies.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC’s researchers combed through 200 popular films from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand from 2017 to 2019. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Muslims are very rarely depicted in movies, and when they are, it’s usually as a stereotypical terrorist, \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2021/film/news/riz-ahmed-muslim-study-usc-annenberg-inclusion-initiative-pillars-fund-1234993247/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what Oscar nominated actor Riz Ahmed calls a “dangerous trope.”\u003c/a> Having spoken out about this issue for several years, he’s been looking for hard data. Now’s he got it. This week, The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative came out with the report he asked for. It’s titled \u003ca href=\"https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-muslim-rep-global-film-2021-06-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Missing and Maligned: The Reality of Muslims in Popular Global Movies.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USC’s researchers combed through 200 popular films from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand from 2017 to 2019. They found that only six of them had a Muslim in a co-leading role, and only one of those was female. Of the nearly 9,000 speaking parts, fewer than two percent were Muslim. And there were none in animated movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being confronted with the hard stats themselves was in a way shocking to see how bad it was,” Ahmed told NPR. “Just the extent of Muslim erasure, the extent in particular of erasure of Black Muslims, and Muslim women, it was really shocking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The report pointed to several examples, including the film \u003cem>Hotel Mumbai\u003c/em>, which featured Muslims as terrorists. Movies such as \u003cem>Aladdin\u003c/em> depicted Muslim characters only in the past. Other films portrayed Muslims as outsiders or subservient to white characters. In 2017’s \u003cem>Wonder Woman\u003c/em>, the character Sameer had to play up a stereotype. He later complains about his limited opportunities. “Not everyone gets to be what they want to be all the time,” he says to the superhero. “Me? I am an actor. I love acting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed and the Inclusion Initiative also worked on the study with The Pillars Fund, a foundation for Muslims in the U.S. The group’s cofounder and president, Kashif Shaikh says that while the Muslim community is racially and ethnically diverse, it’s rarely shown that way in movies. He said Hollywood has created and reinforced dangerous portrayals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I recoiled when that MI5 agent said ‘did you become an actor to further the Muslim struggle?,'” he recalls, saying he’d much rather be acting than be a poster boy for this issue. But he says he realized later he had to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe I did become an actor to be seen and portrayed with empathy and dignity, to be seen as fully human as much as any other character.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes a “blueprint” for Muslim inclusion: solutions for film studios, film schools, and philanthropies. The Pillars Fund is awarding a new fellowship for Muslim artists. Ahmed is also teaming with Mahershala Ali, Ramy Youssef, Sana Amanat, Karim Amer, Rosa Attab, Nida Manzoor and Jehane Noujaim. They’re challenging film companies to secure deals with Muslim creators and to “sunset” the old tropes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Rose Friedman, and adapted for the web by Rose Friedman and Mandalit del Barco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Just+10%25+Of+Popular+Movies+Had+A+Muslim+Character.+Riz+Ahmed+Wants+To+Change+That&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Asha Gond first started skateboarding, neighbors in her village of Janwar in central India were aghast. They urged the teenager’s parents to keep her busy with housework or get her married. When she walked through the village, skateboard in hand, they would sneer at her and make disparaging comments. Skateboarding is for boys, Gond, now 21, recalls the villagers saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding isn’t common in Indian cities, let alone remote rural areas like where Gond lives. The skatepark in her village was built by a German social activist. It ignited in her a life-altering passion for skateboarding—a passion Gond has pursued despite the rigid patriarchal norms in her village and one that has taken her to championships overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an incredible story of how one skatepark can change a girl’s—and really an entire community’s—life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also happens to be the plot of a new Netflix movie called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a> releasing June 11. The movie chronicles the journey of a rural Indian teenage girl who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding after a Westerner builds a skatepark in her village but faces obstacles when she tries to chase her dream of competing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers say it’s a fictionalized account of stories of skateboarding girls in India. But Gond says it’s her story and that the filmmakers never got her permission—even though they met her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that they’ve shown in the trailer have actually happened to me,” she told NPR in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why A Rural Village Got A Skatepark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janwar is a tiny village of about 1,200 located at the edge of a tiger reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Tribal communities called Adivasis make up about \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2309_PART_B_DCHB_PANNA.pdf__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-4EhXZs%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a> of its population. India’s ancient caste system relegates Adivasis to the bottom of the social hierarchy and they typically live segregated from the rest of the community. When Gond was growing up, Adivasi children like her weren’t allowed to mix or play with their higher caste peers. Girls tended to marry early and the literacy rate was extremely low—especially among women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the skatepark, built by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ulrikereinhard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike Reinhard\u003c/a>, a German business consultant and activist. Reinhard has been mostly living in India since 2012 and much of her work focuses on empowering youth in rural areas. She had been toying with the idea of building a school in rural India. But inspired by \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateistan.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U0HWm-GM%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skateistan\u003c/a>, an international nonprofit organization that promotes education and gender equality through skateboarding, Reinhard decided to build a skatepark in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experiment,” Reinhard says. “I thought, can a skatepark trigger change in such a stiff and old-traditioned community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise money for the project, Reinhard reached out to artists across the world to convert skateboards into artboards which she then auctioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11733418']When she had the funding, she encouraged skating enthusiasts from around the world to come to Janwar to help build the park. About a dozen came and constructed the skatepark with assistance from laborers in the village. The skatepark opened in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end result was something most of the people in the village had never seen—or even heard of. Gond said her initial reaction was that it “looked very weird.” Some people thought it was a swimming pool, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids came around quickly and thought the skatepark was cool, says Reinhard. But some adults were skeptical of Reinhard’s intentions and started spreading rumors that she was involved in human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond’s mother was scared for her. “People would say [Reinhard] is going to sell your daughter and you won’t be able to see her again ever,” says Kamala Gond, who has since come around to support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The German nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.skate-aid.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skate-aid\u003c/a> provided the first batch of 20 skateboards. Reinhard doesn’t know how to skateboard so she showed the kids YouTube videos on a tablet to get them started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, it was difficult to maintain balance, Gond says.”The skateboard would go ahead when I stepped on it. I thought I would fall over and smash my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once she got the hang of it, it was all Gond could think of. “I would lie in bed at night and think about how to maneuver the skateboard to do a particular trick,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Girls Get Priority. And Leave Your Caste At the Door\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skatepark is free and open to all the children in the village, irrespective of caste. Encouraging Adivasi children and Yadav kids (a higher caste) to skate together is blurring caste divisions in the community, Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While members of higher castes don’t get special treatment, girls do. One of the skatepark’s rules is “Girls first”—meaning if there are no skateboards free, a girl can ask a skateboarding boy to give his skateboard to her and he has to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_85006']“The girls’ destiny is sealed the day they are born,” says Reinhard, adding that they are typically put to work at a young age and married off early. “So this was a way to tackle the gender [inequality] issue without naming it explicitly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was happy to see girls skateboarding, much less Adivasi girls like Gond. Villagers would gossip that Gond would be better off learning to cook instead of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used to say to my parents, ‘What is she going to do after she goes to her husband’s home?'” says Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mornings, Gond recalls, she arrived at the skatepark to threatening messages written on the concrete. “They said they would burn me if I did skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off. \u003ccite>(Vicky Roy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gond continued to skate and quickly became a rising star in Janwar. Over the years, she’s traveled across India to participate in skateboarding contests. In 2018, she represented India in the World Skateboarding Championship in Nanjing, China. She came in nearly last, but she was the only Indian in the women’s games, competing against many who came from countries with long traditions of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond is also co-founder and director of the nonprofit organization Barefoot Skateboarders, which focuses on the education and development of the children in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother says she’s proud of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel wonderful, I had never imagined that my daughter could do this or achieve what she has achieved,” says Kamala Gond, who says she regrets that she never had the opportunity to go to school and was married when she was a young teen. “What I couldn’t do, my daughter is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘No School. No Skateboarding’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second rule at the skatepark is, “No school. No skateboarding.” When the kids skip school or are kept home by their parents, they aren’t allowed to skateboard. And to make school a better experience, Reinhard partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/prakriti.edu.in/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-jK3Wug%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prakriti School\u003c/a>, an organization that focuses on innovative learning, to organize workshops for teachers in Janwar to improve their teaching skills. As a result, school attendance has gone up considerably, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13891248']“We really have created an eagerness to learn,” Reinhard says, adding that they’ve built a second skatepark and a community center that Gond manages where kids can take part in a variety of activities, including painting and karate. “We have a computer lab and the kids are sitting in front of computer screens learning Hindi poems or math.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard says skateboarding is the oil that keeps the whole machine running. It’s a model that’s been successful in many countries. The nonprofit Skateistan now runs programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Skate After School, an \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateafterschool.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U8BlZH3T%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arizona-based nonprofit\u003c/a>, teaches skateboarding to nurture children from underserved communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How does it work? Sports as a means of social change is powerful, says \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/malala.org/champions/jyotsna-jha__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UzBEPwlp%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jyotsna Jha\u003c/a>, director of the Indian think tank Center for Budget and Policy Studies. “Especially something like skating, which is novel and thrilling, can really create a sense of achievement among children that they had perhaps never experienced otherwise,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sports has always been a gendered act, she says. “But when a sport is introduced for girls that is not traditionally associated with girls, it helps in breaking many stereotypes and also generating new ways of thinking,” Jha says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/aslam_saiyad_03_20191_custom-debc61ed55d4bcd408e274b6ef182e9c0ee6aab8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond rides over an obstacle known as a volcano at the Janwar Castle skatepark in her village. \u003ccite>(Aslam Saiyad/Barefoot Skateboarders Organization)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Inspiring Movie And A Controversy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact that skateboarding is creating in different communities is what director Manjari Makijany says inspired her movie \u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>. But after watching the trailer, some people on social media familiar with Reinhard’s work and Gond’s story assumed the movie was about Gond and the skatepark in Janwar. But Gond says the filmmakers never got permission to tell her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why don’t you ask me that you are going to tell my story?” Gond \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/NetflixFamily/posts/1182671495505173?comment_id=163450362388313__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U2jrrCCu%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a comment to a Netflix post sharing the trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to NPR, Makijany denied that the movie was about Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em> is not a biopic based on anyone’s life story nor is it a documentary,” Makijany says. “It is not [Gond or Reinhard’s] story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the movie, as in Janwar, the rule is “No school, No skateboarding” and it’s a Westerner—like Reinhard—who introduces the village to skateboarding and builds a skatepark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond says the filmmakers met with her in Janwar and spoke to her about how skateboarding had changed her life and transformed her village. The director says Gond was just one of many girls they met during the making of the movie. The movie was also not shot in Janwar but in a village in Rajasthan state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard had a contract to be a research consultant on the movie but says she quit early because of differences over the storytelling approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It turned out to be this kitschy, cheesy kind of thing,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhard also says from an ethical point of view, the filmmakers should have made a contract with Gond and the other children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13898211']Reinhard’s name and the Janwar skatepark appear in the end credits of the movie, along with the names of other skateboarders in India and around the world. The director says Gond and the other Janwar children were given a chance to be a part of the movie’s climax scene, but they declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We said if this is our story we want to be seen and tell our story. We don’t want to be only in the background of the last scene,” Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her misgivings, Reinhard says overall, the movie will benefit Janwar and raise awareness about their work and about skateboarding. A new \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.desertdolphinskatepark.com/about__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-UysxWPbE%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skatepark\u003c/a> was built in Khempur village where the movie was shot and is now being used by the community there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Gond, she says she is curious to see the full movie. All she has to do now is get a Netflix account, a luxury most people in her village do not have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Skateboarding+Gives+Freedom+To+Rural+Indian+Teen+In+Netflix+Film+%E2%80%94+And+In+Real+Life&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Asha Gond first started skateboarding, neighbors in her village of Janwar in central India were aghast. They urged the teenager’s parents to keep her busy with housework or get her married. When she walked through the village, skateboard in hand, they would sneer at her and make disparaging comments. Skateboarding is for boys, Gond, now 21, recalls the villagers saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skateboarding isn’t common in Indian cities, let alone remote rural areas like where Gond lives. The skatepark in her village was built by a German social activist. It ignited in her a life-altering passion for skateboarding—a passion Gond has pursued despite the rigid patriarchal norms in her village and one that has taken her to championships overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an incredible story of how one skatepark can change a girl’s—and really an entire community’s—life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also happens to be the plot of a new Netflix movie called \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Fn99wmFCQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Skater Girl\u003c/em>\u003c/a> releasing June 11. The movie chronicles the journey of a rural Indian teenage girl who discovers a life-changing passion for skateboarding after a Westerner builds a skatepark in her village but faces obstacles when she tries to chase her dream of competing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers say it’s a fictionalized account of stories of skateboarding girls in India. But Gond says it’s her story and that the filmmakers never got her permission—even though they met her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The things that they’ve shown in the trailer have actually happened to me,” she told NPR in a phone interview.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/k5Fn99wmFCQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/k5Fn99wmFCQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why A Rural Village Got A Skatepark\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janwar is a tiny village of about 1,200 located at the edge of a tiger reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Tribal communities called Adivasis make up about \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2309_PART_B_DCHB_PANNA.pdf__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-4EhXZs%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half\u003c/a> of its population. India’s ancient caste system relegates Adivasis to the bottom of the social hierarchy and they typically live segregated from the rest of the community. When Gond was growing up, Adivasi children like her weren’t allowed to mix or play with their higher caste peers. Girls tended to marry early and the literacy rate was extremely low—especially among women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the skatepark, built by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ulrikereinhard.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike Reinhard\u003c/a>, a German business consultant and activist. Reinhard has been mostly living in India since 2012 and much of her work focuses on empowering youth in rural areas. She had been toying with the idea of building a school in rural India. But inspired by \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.skateistan.org/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U0HWm-GM%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skateistan\u003c/a>, an international nonprofit organization that promotes education and gender equality through skateboarding, Reinhard decided to build a skatepark in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an experiment,” Reinhard says. “I thought, can a skatepark trigger change in such a stiff and old-traditioned community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To raise money for the project, Reinhard reached out to artists across the world to convert skateboards into artboards which she then auctioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When she had the funding, she encouraged skating enthusiasts from around the world to come to Janwar to help build the park. About a dozen came and constructed the skatepark with assistance from laborers in the village. The skatepark opened in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end result was something most of the people in the village had never seen—or even heard of. Gond said her initial reaction was that it “looked very weird.” Some people thought it was a swimming pool, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids came around quickly and thought the skatepark was cool, says Reinhard. But some adults were skeptical of Reinhard’s intentions and started spreading rumors that she was involved in human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond’s mother was scared for her. “People would say [Reinhard] is going to sell your daughter and you won’t be able to see her again ever,” says Kamala Gond, who has since come around to support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The German nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.skate-aid.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skate-aid\u003c/a> provided the first batch of 20 skateboards. Reinhard doesn’t know how to skateboard so she showed the kids YouTube videos on a tablet to get them started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, it was difficult to maintain balance, Gond says.”The skateboard would go ahead when I stepped on it. I thought I would fall over and smash my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once she got the hang of it, it was all Gond could think of. “I would lie in bed at night and think about how to maneuver the skateboard to do a particular trick,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Girls Get Priority. And Leave Your Caste At the Door\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The skatepark is free and open to all the children in the village, irrespective of caste. Encouraging Adivasi children and Yadav kids (a higher caste) to skate together is blurring caste divisions in the community, Gond says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While members of higher castes don’t get special treatment, girls do. One of the skatepark’s rules is “Girls first”—meaning if there are no skateboards free, a girl can ask a skateboarding boy to give his skateboard to her and he has to agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The girls’ destiny is sealed the day they are born,” says Reinhard, adding that they are typically put to work at a young age and married off early. “So this was a way to tackle the gender [inequality] issue without naming it explicitly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone was happy to see girls skateboarding, much less Adivasi girls like Gond. Villagers would gossip that Gond would be better off learning to cook instead of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used to say to my parents, ‘What is she going to do after she goes to her husband’s home?'” says Gond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some mornings, Gond recalls, she arrived at the skatepark to threatening messages written on the concrete. “They said they would burn me if I did skateboarding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/vicky_roy_2016_mptourism_tour_custom-719f5eb5f4daeb7d4746d960d7e2ac0038389a6d.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asha Gond (center right) rides her skateboard. When she first began skating, neighbors would shout that skateboarding is for boys and urge her parents to marry her off. \u003ccite>(Vicky Roy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Gond continued to skate and quickly became a rising star in Janwar. Over the years, she’s traveled across India to participate in skateboarding contests. In 2018, she represented India in the World Skateboarding Championship in Nanjing, China. She came in nearly last, but she was the only Indian in the women’s games, competing against many who came from countries with long traditions of skateboarding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gond is also co-founder and director of the nonprofit organization Barefoot Skateboarders, which focuses on the education and development of the children in Janwar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mother says she’s proud of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel wonderful, I had never imagined that my daughter could do this or achieve what she has achieved,” says Kamala Gond, who says she regrets that she never had the opportunity to go to school and was married when she was a young teen. “What I couldn’t do, my daughter is doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘No School. No Skateboarding’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second rule at the skatepark is, “No school. No skateboarding.” When the kids skip school or are kept home by their parents, they aren’t allowed to skateboard. And to make school a better experience, Reinhard partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/prakriti.edu.in/__;!!Iwwt!H9Zt-H4FSAPu868Vthr_4VOFMUM6NAcTjzf_khY0Ocwc-GBvGkc-U-jK3Wug%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prakriti School\u003c/a>, an organization that focuses on innovative learning, to organize workshops for teachers in Janwar to improve their teaching skills. As a result, school attendance has gone up considerably, Reinhard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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While my two-decade journey is wrapping up, the friendships I’ve made will last a lifetime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from ABC, Warner Horizon and Harrison did not otherwise respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website Deadline \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2021/06/chris-harrison-leaving-the-bachelor-franchise-controversy-1234771200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported Harrison’s ouster\u003c/a>, saying it came after intense negotiations culminating in a “midrange, eight-figure payoff” which would ensure the former host said little about the issue after the news was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison has hosted \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> and its spinoff shows since the series debuted in 2002. 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James wound up rejecting Kirkconnell during the program’s \u003cem>After the Rose\u003c/em> special, which was hosted by former NFL player and author Emmanuel Acho. (he has since told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine he is once again “\u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/matt-james-says-hes-pursuing-a-relationship-with-rachael-kirkconnell-focusing-on-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pursuing a relationship\u003c/a>” with her.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s departure was initially characterized as a temporary stepping aside. 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