Zoom: In Bolivia, Cochabamba’s rebel women skateboarders

Who said skateboarding was a man’s sport, performed in jeans and a hoodie? Certainly not the women skaters of the ImillaSkate collective, who recklessly careen down the slopes of Cochabamba, Bolivia’s third-largest city. Since the group was founded in 2019, they have chosen to practice the sport wearing polleras, voluminous traditional skirts. Introduced during the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, the skirt eventually became an integral part of the identity of the cholitas, indigenous women of the Andean highlands.