How Roller Derby Challenges Stereotypes of Women in Sports (Re-Post)

This Thursday and Friday, I have the great privilege to be attending the Womensphere Emerging Leaders Summit (of which I’ll be writing a solid retrospective next week), so rather than suspend posting, I’ll be putting up two of my favorite posts from the past about women, leadership, and busting stereotypes. Enjoy! This weekend, I had […]

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Nerd Girl Inc: Learning to Skate

Today, breaking from my regularly scheduled life, I went for a skating lesson downtown. My morning was spent navigating the Village first to acquaint myself with the obscure location of Mercer Playground, which has no fixed address, but is instead wedged between other addresses and cannot easily be located on Hopstop… Then, I got lost […]

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Nerd Girl Inc: My Favorite Sport

Roller derby is my football.I attended my first bout last weekend on Saturday – two NYC teams (Manhattan Mayhem and Brooklyn Bombers) against two outsiders (Suburbia and Providence Pigeons). New York cleaned it up with some amazing wins – Brooklyn creamed the Pigeons and Manhattan pulled a close win in the second period against Suburbia.But, […]

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Rollin’ Rollin’…

I have returned to Seattle! And so have my boxes (finally).I feel as if I am still in transition from New York to Seattle; I wouldn’t say that I had major jet lag, but I definitely woke up at 6:30am everyday since I touched ground and am only now getting on to a reasonable 8am. […]

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