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:
Anyone can be a Housewife skater regardless of the color of your hairy legs.
We reprinted limited copies of the Hairy Legs graphic with various multi-colored legs. We also have unlimited quantities of the hairy legs stickers in three different colors: beige, caramel, and brown. Order a graphic sticker pack to receive a random assortment!
I started Housewife because I wanted to critique the oppression of 1950’s American Housewives. I didn’t want to critique black Housewives because didn’t feel it is my place to make that critique as a white woman. That is why I make all my graphics in black, white, and yellow. The Hairy Legs graphic was the only one that I made with a skin tone and the addition of the color red. I decided to create diverse editions so anyone could identify with the graphic.
