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All the feels on 8 wheels: A roller derby podcast with all the history, advice, interviews, and feelings you could ever want--and without the smell!
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Monday Oct 22, 2018
Monday Oct 22, 2018
Let's talk about...racism in roller derby!
This may not sound like your idea of a good time, but the thing is, it's very necessary. This episode is largely directed at our fellow white folks within the sport, but may be interesting and/or useful to anyone looking to build a better roller derby (and world). This is just the start of a conversation, by the way, as we look to bring in more diverse voices and ideas to the podcast, in the service of 1) white folks doing real, intentional, anti-racist work within their teams, leagues, and communities, and 2) all of us becoming better friends, humans, advocates, etc. in the effort to dismantle all of the nasty isms that plague our society.
Easy peasy, right? ;)
We aimed to make this episode chalk-full of real life, accessible resources for anyone looking to educate themselves and/or their leagues, too. Below the timestamps, you'll find a list of handy dandy links, book titles, and more to dig into (and that are referenced in the episode).
We also open and close the show with some fun WFTDA Champs news and speculation, what's making us happy this week, where the heck we've been this year, and more.
As always, if you have questions, comments, or constructive criticism for us (we ain't perfect) please holler via email or social medias: ssderbypodcast@gmail.com / Twitter / Facebook.
EPISODE 6 TIMESTAMPS:
- 00:00 Intro
- 12:25 Let's talk about racism
- 1:01:30 Musical interlude with The Loud Soft Loud
- 1:06:16 What's making us happy this week / outro
EPISODE 6 RESOURCES:
Listen to Podcasts:
Off the Track (Mick Swagger): http://www.wispsports.com/listen/off-the-track
- Oppression In Roller Derby
- Team Indigenous Talk Politics
- The experiences and stories from POC (Rollercon 2018 recording)
- Allyship seminar (Rollercon 2018 recording)
https://www.facebook.com/teamindigenousrollerderby/
https://www.instagram.com/teamindigenousrollerderby/
Interviews to listen to: https://www.wnyc.org/story/reading-reckoning-ijeoma-oluo/
https://www.wnyc.org/story/guidebook-talking-about-race/
Watch: "5 ways to be an Ally": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0
Further reading:
Ermagergh, berks!
In-depth look at how the post-Civil War period shaped modern race relations and racist narratives in America: “Race and Reunion” by David W. Blight
"So You Want To Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo (a great primer for white folks especially)
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
"Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race" by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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An incomplete index of things Ham mispronounced or slurred her way thru in this episode:
- "Dragon burlesque show" (aka "drag and burlesque show, but now we kind of want to see an actual dragon burlesque show)
- CRAY-PER (i.e. creeper)
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Welcome to our brand new roller derby podcast! Your hosts (Hammer Abby and Allie Gator) are super excited to bring this project to life, and we hope you'll enjoy it, maybe learn a few things, tell your friends, and keep listening.
In this episode, we 1) introduce ourselves and talk a bit about our own skating backgrounds, as well as hopes and dreams for the future of this podcast, 2) dig into RollerCon 2017 and its highlights, 3) give a little advice for dealing with the skating struggle, and 4) *interview longtime skater Mouse about her background, and some of the interesting history of the wild and wooly early days of WFTDA roller derby.
*We hope you'll forgive a little audio trouble we had with Mouse's interview. There is some distortion where her microphone clipped, and we PROMISE we'll have that issue fixed for future episodes. We hope it doesn't impede your enjoyment of her really stellar interview too much! Thanks for being patient as we get our podcast sea legs under us.
As always, if you have comments, compliments, questions, and/or have music you'd like to submit for us to consider for inclusion on future podcasts, hit us up at ssderbypodcast@gmail.com.
We're online at Facebook and Twitter, too! And Hammer has a Tumblr.
Supplementary links from this episode:
- Damsel Trash (Hammer's band, theme song)
- Mouse's 608 Skate Shop
- The Invisible Illness/Pain Support Network
- The Gimp Crew (for people with old, nagging injury issues)
- Mental health support in derby
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