She spent several years active in the leadership of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association and has given presentations, workshops and talks about the sport at Pecha Kecha Columbus, the Roller Derby World Summit, and Rollercon. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is in her second decade as a skater with Ohio Roller Derby. In her spare time, Sam loves protest, mutual aid, roller derby, and karaoke.Īmy Spears (she/her) graduated from Denison University with a degree in cinema and creative writing. Other essays have been published with Literary Hub, Columbus Alive, BUST, Brevity, and Guernica.
Her essay “Fountain Girls,” originally published in Ecotone, is a listed notable in Best American Essays 2017 and is anthologized in Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology.
Sam writes personal essays, memoir, and cultural critique, having earned her MFA and MA in creative nonfiction. Samantha Tucker (she/her) is an antiracist teacher, writer, and editor in Columbus, Ohio. In a full-contact, theatrical sport that some consider revolutionary, the authors show that gaining truly radical self-knowledge is an ongoing, difficult process that requires love, teamwork, discipline, critical consideration of one’s local and global societies, and-above all else-one’s place and action within them.
But even as the sport is often home for historically marginalized groups, such as the LGBTQ+ community, roller derby organizations and participants often mirror and experience the same inequities as those in the world surrounding them. This modern sport, with its alternative, punk rock culture, is often a place for those who’ve struggled within the mainstream. Part sports autobiography, part cultural critique, this book offers the collective experience of a tenacious group of nontraditional athletes who play, officiate, plan, schedule, market, and manage the business of a (mostly) women’s amateur sports team. A view into the continuing evolution of the niche-yet-global sport through the historical lens of Ohio Roller Derby, one of the founding leagues of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association
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