.Best Safe Space for Queer Skateboarders: Unity Mart in Oakland

Jeff Chung is a well-known artist and skater in the Bay Area. He launched “Unity Skateboarding” — a skate company for queer skaters — as a way to create room for radical new voices and form a community. This year Unity Mart opened, which is the store connected to Unity Skateboarding, and it now serves as a home for queer skaters and artists in the Bay Area. They offer open events and skate sessions for queer youth. On multiple Saturdays, they have had free Risograph printing for Black and brown artists in the bay. Their new location opened in March and is the best place to grab a new skateboard or a screen-printed T-shirt. It’s a safe space for skaters who don’t otherwise have a place that feels non-judgmental and open. The spot is also home to Lower Grand Radio, a small radio station that plays sick tunes every week. With art up on all the walls and a huge printer to make sick zines, the ‘mart’ is an awesome place to visit and meet some skaters cut from their own cloth.
644 40th St. #208 Oakland, Instagram.com/UnityMart and Instagram.com /UnitySkateboarding.

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