So many great shots taken by @aldousheaven of the @sk8babes event we sponsored at the @vans Skate Space 198 in Brooklyn! So stoked for the lucky people who got some Housewife goodies and for everyone who had a great time skating & makin new friends 💓🖤
We are so stoked to announce that our boards are now stocked at Boardary.com! Boardary is a skateboard retailer highlighting brands launched by women. It is located in Ixelles, Belgium. They carry all of our graphics and shapes, so if you are in Belgium or want to buy our gear within Europe, check em out!
Ixelles, Belgium
Housewife is now available at Blowout Skateshop in Würzburg, Germany!
I’ve shipped a couple boxes of boards out to Germany over the past year (the Germans really dig the brand!) but I am super stoked to finally have a shop carry our decks!
I setup (with help from my girlfriend) a booth at Los Feliz Flea market and sold some boards, apparel, and met some new faces! Hoping to come back every now and again so people can purchase some goods in person!
Owner of Housewife Skateboards: Charlotte Tegen featured in The New Skaters of New York article written by Jazmine Hughes and photographed by Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times.
Super stoked to be sponsoring a couple of upcoming competitions events on Saturday, July 10th! The first one is at Pier 62 Skate Park in Manhattan (23rd Street, Chelsea) with the NYC Skateboard Coalition and the second one is at Van Cortlandt Skate Park in the Bronx with Bronx Girls Skate!
This weekend we sponsored a competion at Cooper Skatepark in Brooklyn with Skate For Changes which is an NYC-based #Sk84BlackLives group! We gave away a board and some goodies to some shredders!
Growing up, I would go to the skate shop as an 8 year old girl, and be so excited to see all the board graphics on the wall. It was better than being a kid in the candy shop.
But, what made me immediately so uncomfortable was brands like Hookups or other companies that would un-creatively and un-thoughtfully put naked women or some form of sexualization of women as a board graphic. I don’t think I really was exposed to that kind of imagery until I started going to the skate shop.
So, in creating Housewife Skateboards graphics, I attempt to create witty, thoughtful and empowering graphics of women, that the 8 year old me would have thought were totally badass, and would have saved up in my piggy bank for.
Examples of the graphics still being created today by skate companies:
