She Explores · Ravel Media

Examining Skiing, with Love - Heather Hansman & Tori Duhaime

February 16, 2022·44 min·3 clips
Heather Hansman argues that ski culture's 'anti-citizenship' ethos — skating by, not paying in — is ultimately what will destroy the thing ski bums claim to love.
Gail opens on a simple question.

As heard by us

A ski conversation about belonging, access, and the uneasy line between critique and care.

She Explores treats skiing as a question of belonging. It asks who gets folded into the culture, who gets laughed at from the sidelines, and how a sport built on expertise can still sting people who arrive from outside it.

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Why you'd press play

For when you want skiing culture treated as a question of belonging, not just speed.

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