Glen Thompson

I wave-slide / Write on history, gender, race and the cultural politics of surfing and beach cultures in southern Africa / PhD in History

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

I’m looking forward to chatting with you about your short story collection at the launch @defendtherealm

[Stephen Symons @defendtherealm]

✨ Join Stephen Symons in conversation with Glen Thompson as they discuss Of Salt, Dust & Love.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
⏰. Time: 18:00 - 18:30
📍Venue: Wordsworth Gardens Centre
📧 RSVP: [email protected]

@wordsworthbooks @glent_za @KaravanPress

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

@defendtherealm @KaravanPress @KarinaMSzczurek @pen_southafrica I look forward to seeing your new collection of short stories in print @defendtherealm

[Matthew Taylor @matthew_mtaylor]

Great to see World of Sport out today. Of interest to students (and scholars) of transnational/ global history as well as those interested in sports history and the origins of C21st global sport #sportshistory #globalhistory

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

In the next episode of the podcast we discuss how queering surfing spaces makes for a more inclusive surfing culture and reflect on how, due the history of mainstream surfing, some surfing organizations do not provide safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ surfers. ⬇️

[TheDeepDuckDivePodcast @DeepDuckDivePod]

Episode 5: Queering surf spaces is live. We discuss the heteronormative culture in surfing, its history, & often unwelcoming spaces for anyone not cisgendered & heterosexual. We look at how queer surf groups have made their own safe spaces & how most surf orgs fail to do this.

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

@_futbolprof this scholarly podcast offers a view on the history of surfing in Africa to add to the sports historiography curriculum.

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

My co-host, Karen Graaff, and I explore the waves of surfing's history in Africa from colonial times to the present in these next two episodes of the The Deep Duck Dive Podcast ⬇️. We take a Africanist approach to the oceanic turn in tracing surfing's history. #surfhistory

[TheDeepDuckDivePodcast @DeepDuckDivePod]

We have just dropped two episodes on the history of surfing in Africa. Part 1 covers surfing in West Africa in the colonial era (from c.1500) and part 2 reviews the diffusion of surfing in Africa from c.1900 to the Olympic present. Listen here https://t.co/wAztoxRBN2

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

Remove Abu Dhabi from World Surf League Tour Calendar - Support your LGBTQIA+ Community - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/xKHLXStb25 via @ChangeorgSA

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

In this new podcast episode ⬇️ Karen Graaff and I discuss surfing’s history in Africa during colonial times. This is part 1 of a 2 part installment. In part 2, out in 2 week’s time, we’ll look to surfing in Africa from 1900 to the present Olympic moment.

[TheDeepDuckDivePodcast @DeepDuckDivePod]

New episode is out: Episode 3 dives into the history of surfing in Africa during the colonial era, focusing on African surfing practices in West Africa, as part of wider scholarly work in critical surf studies and the blue humanities. Listen at https://t.co/wAztoxRBN2

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

I just backed Comrades! Verso Needs Your Support for Radical Publishing on @Kickstarter https://t.co/kmQv6Ps7T7

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

@bernieshelly Appreciate your feedback on the episode @bernieshelly

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

Check out the next episode of The Deep Duck Dive Podcast - a critical surf studies and hydrofeminist public scholarship project thinking with/in surfing.

[TheDeepDuckDivePodcast @DeepDuckDivePod]

Podcast Episode 3 has dropped: in “The Waves Don’r Discriminate” we discuss the issue of fairness in the sport of surfing, and how a term that sounds neutral is in fact heavily politicised. Listen ⬇️
https://t.co/20wnJEqlaY

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

For those interested in critical surf studies and blue humanities, my co-host Karen Graaff and I have launched a podcast focusing on thinking with surfing in the global South, focusing on Africa. Intro and episode 1 are now live, see ⬇️

[TheDeepDuckDivePodcast @DeepDuckDivePod]

We are live! The Deep Duck Dive Podcast intro episode outlines our public scholarship project focusing on surfing in the South. To listen, go to https://t.co/wAztoxRBN2

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

Thanks @KaravanPress for documenting the reading and joining for the evening.

[Karavan Press @KaravanPress]

Last night at the Tokai Library: @defendtherealm & @glent_za reading poetry about the ocean at The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective!

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

I look forward to reading this oceanic story in print @defendtherealm 😎

[Stephen Symons @defendtherealm]

Many thanks to, @kerry_hammerton , for including "The Fable of the Merboy" in the "In Other Stories" flash fiction anthology, published by @karavanpress. @Heckitty @glent_za @TheMindStudio

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

I’ll be joining @defendtherealm at The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Collective to read some of my ocean-minded and other poems at the end of July in Cape Town. Invite details 👇

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

Apologies - should read: Surf Simply Magazine

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

An interview just out: I chat to Simply Surf Magazine on surfing and politics during COVID pandemic in South Africa. It is based on my work in Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times, eds: David Andrews, @hollythorpe_nz, Joshua Newman. See https://t.co/m9ldnBYbhI

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

Cool readings on surfing and wild swimming effects and affects in South Africa. Catching the wave with Byron Loker, @KaravanPress, Tammy Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek, Nike Romano & Karen Graaff. Thanks @Heckitty for hosting. Details - https://t.co/DMpBlGMj6v

[Glen Thompson @glent_za]

See you there for the swell literature happening @Heckitty

[Dr Helen Moffett @Heckitty]

If you're in Cape Town, this happens TOMORROW! Come get your feet wet! @KaravanPress @MelissaAVolker @glent_za https://t.co/n4Te9bLPoE