As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, “Drop In” chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable. And so it is that the male-dominated history of skateboarding has been written by men, is about men, and celebrates men, with a few delightful women popping up hither and yon. Like the rest of the world, skateboarding considered anyone who wasn’t straight an aberration. So before things go any further and the history of skateboarding is forever cemented in myopia, here are some stories that tell a different tale. “Often, if you want to write about women in history, you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts,” said historical novelist Hilary Mantel.