About
BANDIT is a home for skaters & creators. Period.
BANDITxAPPAREL is geared towards skaters, artists, and other individualist types. We seek to create a home for the “categorically impossible” or those who do not fit into preconceived notions of humanity. No one here is just one thing.
We are BANDITS because we have stolen back our own personhood. This is more than just the mere feeling of alienation, but the truth of expectation: what people see vs who we really are. There is the box they want to put you in and there are the wings on your back that just won’t fit.
And that means that EVERYONE is welcome, provided that you enter this space with an open heart. And you will see all faces here; this is not a place for exclusion. But do know that the focus of our content is the underrepresented. We just want to even out the playing field, shining a spotlight on the diversity of this community in hopes that we all may derive inspiration from one another.
Because we are alive. We are whole. And we have burned under the gaze of a watchful, resentful eye and risen from the ashes. There is strength in our sensitivity, our honesty, and our nobility because we are joyful, and above all else, free. Free from any and all everyone has told us about us, as if we do not know who we are. Because we do know who we are. We are color and light; we are promise and hope; we are forgiveness; we are open hearts.
We are bandit.
and we exist.
So, thank you for hanging out! We’re glad you’re here 🙂
– Shelby
[the art bandit]
Mission
To make visible the skaters & creators you don’t see. In short, representation.
Vision
We envision space, a place where people can go to create, to meet, to collaborate, to learn, to share, home away from home. This is merely the beginning.
Values
To name a few:
- The Fruits of the Spirit
- Acceptance
- Understanding
- Minding your own business...