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Rollergirls - The Story of Flat Track Derby (Hardcover)
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Rollergirls - The Story of Flat Track Derby (Hardcover)
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Flat track roller derby is one of the country’s fastest growing
sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple
of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with
nearly two thousand leagues around the world. Rollergirls captures
the spirit of the game, which is poised to become an Olympic sport,
and highlights the women who have become known as the godmothers of
modern-day roller derby. Documentary photographer Felicia Graham
takes readers on a visual tour of more than 160 black-and-white
images, showcasing the confidence it takes to become a rollergirl
and the camaraderie that develops among the players. Focusing on
the Texas League, where it all began, Graham celebrates the culture
and personality of flat track derby everywhere. Despite their
different reasons for joining the sport, women of varying
professions, ages, and lifestyles have made roller derby uniquely
their own. With tongue-in-cheek team names like the Hotrod Honeys
and personas like Sparkle Plenty and Buckshot Betty, the players
use their brains and brawn to master the strategic game while also
expanding the sport internationally. It’s all done with bravado
and a brash sense of humor unique to full-contact sports. Graham
has been photographing the Texas Rollergirls on and off the track,
in Texas and on the international circuit, for more than a decade.
Spending untold hours with the league and collecting thousands of
photographs of pivots and blockers, adoring crowds, and the sweat
of the bench, she has created a visual narrative of women who
embody the freedom of flying around the track. In these pages,
readers learn how regular girls become rollergirls--determined,
athletic, intimidating, and powerful, all on their own terms.
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