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On Ashima Shiraishi: Tank top, $35, by The North Face. Pants, her own. Her own shoes by Ashima x Brain Dead Zenist for Evolv. On Hisatoshi Shiraishi: Jacket, $445, and pants, $340, by Homme Plissé Issey Miyake. Sweater, $1,080, by Vivienne Westwood x Andreas Kronthaler. Boots, $165, by The North Face. His own socks by Gold Toe. Glasses, his own.
Ashima and Hisatoshi Shiraishi
“There’s a strong connection between psychological wellness and climbing,” says Ashima. “A lot of it has to do with trusting other people when they’re belaying you and your life is in their hands.”
Harris tells me he made the decision to start the organization when he learned about a teenager who started a fire in Coney Island that ended up killing a police officer. “When the police found out it was a 16-year-old Black kid, they said to him, ‘Why did you do it?’ And he said that he was bored,” recounts Harris. “That blew my mind. This police officer would be alive if only this kid had an activity.” He knows that making himself and the people around him visible—whether that’s grinding out long days in the community or posting constantly on social media—is important if he hopes to change tired old ideas of who gets to be seen as a surfer. “When I first started giving surf lessons, there was this one lady on the phone who didn’t know I was Black,” says Harris. “When she got to the lesson, she was looking for the instructor. I said, ‘It’s me!’ And she said, ‘No, you’re not Louis!’ ”
These days, the BSA is a motley yet tight-knit cluster of friends who, with Harris at the forefront,
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