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Little Heroes: sugar, spice, and roller derby
thanks shockie, this is the cutest thing ever. i can only aspire to be as cool as these girls!
Posted on February 22, 2010
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my very first derby injury :D
Posted on February 20, 2010
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i just want to run around in leggings, short shorts and knee highs all day. and my skates, cant forget the skates!
Posted on January 28, 2010
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Whatever it is, or isn’t, roller derby provides a venue for exploring identity and breaking down social assumptions about what women are capable of. A place where players will, as one skater described, “tear your head off on the track, and come over and bake you a pie after.
The Escapist : Hit’em Hard and Make’em Bleed
we could scrapbook after if that is more your style.
Posted on January 2, 2010
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For the women who participate, roller derby provides a unique opportunity to dress up, ham it up and play rough. Really rough.
Posted on January 2, 2010
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Chicks with fishnets and tattoos in a moshpit on wheels
how i describe derbyPosted on January 2, 2010
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Roller derby finds you at the right time in your life.
Posted on December 28, 2009
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Because Sometimes Feminists Aren't Nice: A Rant Against Roller Derby
if it’s primarily about playing with sexual norms and doing some kind of Suicide Girls type performance with a little bit of violence added in for spice, well then I think we should stop pretending it’s feminist and empowering.
i play because im a bad ass. not because im a wanna be suicide bitch, i mean girl.
Posted on December 28, 2009
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the beginning…
Posted on December 20, 2009
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i have 37 bruises of various shapes and colors all over my body. how many are from roller derby and how many are from the best show ive been to in a few years?
Posted on November 26, 2009
"an elegant tapestry of quotations, musings, aphorisms, and autobiographical reflections"
and lots of bad music.
I'm interested in the interactions of mediated culture and psychological constructions of the self, obsessed with mental disorders and psychology while being painfully aware of my own inadequacies. I am a prototypical non-conformist with a vaguely leftist doctrine of beliefs. I'm guiltily self-absorbed and I quietly compete with others for brief moments of self-aggrandizing brilliance. I'm a slave to the capitalist dogma I spend every moment of my waking life bitching about. Also, I'm an up-talker?
Currently, I'm a graduate student in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. My research interests encompass many areas of media studies and psychology:
- the role of the internet on everyday life
- the way increasingly mediated lifestyles change social relations
- psychosocial uses and effects of media on identity construction among adolescents and young adults
I graduated with honors from the University at Buffalo in 2006, receiving a BS in Psychology and a BA in Film Studies. I used to work as Project Director for a youth media program and as Senior Research Analyst for a couples study.
In my spare time, I can be found making all sorts of crafts and listening to music.
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