Derby is life

I play roller derby. I kick ass, and I intend to prove it to myself every day.

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NEW VIDEO UP!

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Straight up girl gang rollin’ ⚙️💀🤘

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I think my makeup was on point

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When I accidentally re-enter illegally straight from the box

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[weh-tun]

“So, what are you, like, alternative now?” “Alternative to what?”

Whip It (2009), Dir. Drew Barrymore

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no

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Got my travel team jersey! This is for real y'all!!

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Roller derby legend Bonnie Thunders, aka Nicole Williams, explains move to rival Rose City.

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/18495872/roller-derby-legend-bonnie-thunders-aka-nicole-williams-leaves-gotham-rose-city

[npr]

In Egypt, Saturday nights are for staying in — the workweek starts on Sunday. But for the members of CaiRollers, Egypt’s first all-female roller derby team, it’s for skating.

The team’s 20 members meet for three hours every week, at the Cairo International Stadium’s outdoor handball courts, to practice. It’s an aggressive game, requiring full body contact like hip and shoulder checks. But that’s why players like Lina El-Gohary, 27, love it.

“It makes you believe that you’re still able to learn at any age. It empowers you,” she says.

Two American women, Shaneikiah Bickham and Angie Malone-Kaster, brought the sport to Egypt in 2012. They were working in Cairo as teachers and had previous experience playing roller derby in the U.S. They had a hunch their Egyptian girlfriends would dig the game, so they organized a team and started practicing in the school’s parking lot.

The American women were right: Roller derby was a hit. While the game is not commonly known in Egypt — more than half the world’s amateur roller derby teams are from the U.S. — the CaiRollers managed to keep running even after the two co-founders left the country in 2014.

Egypt’s All-Woman Roller Derby Team Is Skating Past Stereotypes

Photos: Marwa Sameer Morgan for NPR

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roller derby legs

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Roller Derby Names That Should Be Used

Pain Austen

Janet Snakehole

Scrape-ril Ludgate

Opalescent Tree Shark

Michelle Crowbar-ma

Peggy Martyr

Artillery Clinton

Tina Slay

Amy Poleaxe

Prickly Minaj

Captain Scarvel

Mariah Scary

Hate Middleton

Ghastly Knope/Grisly Knope/Deadly Knope

Beyonce

[quentintearintoyou]

I GET TO BE ON A POSTER FOR MY LEAGUES HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!

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The falling whip gif that’s taking the internet by storm! Watching some fascinating/hilarious debate about the legality of this move, but mostly I just enjoy it for the audacity and aesthetics.

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THAT ONE SKATER WHO’S IN EVERY JAM.