Mindy Pennybacker

Apr 11, 2024 | fluxhawaii.com | Mindy Pennybacker |Arriana Veloso

Images by Christa FunkBorn and raised in the ahupua‘a of Waikīkī, near the fabled shoreline once graced by the beach homes of Hawaiian chiefs, I took up surfing in the late 1960s as a young teen and have been obsessed with it ever since.

Mar 7, 2024 | wsj.com | Mindy Pennybacker

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Sep 6, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Mindy Pennybacker

When I first started surfing, as a teenager in Honolulu in 1966, my uncle would clear a way for me through the big, intimidating men on long, heavy surfboards—men who vastly outnumbered women in the fabled waves at Queen’s surf break in Waikiki. Back then, I didn’t see the irony in men dominating a break named for a powerful woman—Queen Lydia Lili‘uokalani, whose cottage had once stood on that very beach.

Sep 6, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Mindy Pennybacker

When I first started surfing, as a teenager in Honolulu in 1966, my uncle would clear a way for me through the big, intimidating men on long, heavy surfboards—men who vastly outnumbered women in the fabled waves at Queen’s surf break in Waikiki. Back then, I didn’t see the irony in men dominating a break named for a powerful woman—Queen Lydia Lili‘uokalani, whose cottage had once stood on that very beach.

Jul 5, 2023 | staradvertiser.com | Mindy Pennybacker