Members of 580 Roller Girls meet twice a week at Laughing Out Loud to perfect their roller derby skills while building ...

Twenty years ago, Kim “Rocket Mean” Stegeman put an ad on the back page of the Portland Mercury. She didn’t have a business to advertise. She had nothing to sell. “My phone number was on the back of ...

In the parking lot of a Redwood City sports complex, more than a dozen athletes arrived from Los Angeles, carrying roller skates in seemingly every color imaginable. Smiling volunteers awaited them at ...

The concept of female empowerment has been an essential part of the sport of roller derby since its Chicago origins in the early 20th century. It started with gender-neutral rules and evolved to ...

Colorado’s roller derby squads are evolving — again — to provide competition and community as other sports roll back the ...

On Sundays, cool women in colorful jerseys zoom through this Westside park on four wheels. Here's what's going on.

For 20 years, Philly Roller Derby skaters, who go by names like Woolly Slammoth, TrailBlazeHer and Reba Smackentire, have jammed and blocked their way around oval skating rinks in the spirit of ...

This story is jointly published by nonprofits Amplify Utah and The Salt Lake Tribune, to elevate diverse perspectives in local media through student journalism. At Salt Lake City’s Derby Depot, where ...

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