Collective Chaos by Tucker, Samantha; Spears, Amy;

A Roller Derby Team Memoir

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Product details:

Edition number 1
Publisher Swallow Press
Date of Publication 11 April 2023
Number of Volumes Print PDF

ISBN 9780804012423
Binding Paperback
No. of pages180 pages
Size 216x152 mm
Weight 312 g
Language English

Short description:

Through stories about playing this full-contact, theatrical, and revolutionary sport, Collective Chaos shows the value of gaining a truly radical self-knowledge through teamwork, love, discipline, and critical consideration of our local and global societies and of our roles and responsibilities within them.

Long description:

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

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.

This modern sport, with its alternative, punk rock culture, is often a place for those who?ve struggled within the mainstream. 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. 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.

?Collective Chaos is an informative, witty, hilarious collision of all things roller derby. It has everything from a history of the sport to player profiles and even personal narrative. Samantha Tucker and Amy Spears have unique voices and an important message that anyone, regardless of skating experience, would benefit from reading.?

Introduction

The Basics: What the Heck Is Roller Derby Anyway?

1 These United Skates

Ohio Player Profile: The Tiny Dictator

A Word from Amy Spears, Ohio Native

2 Small to Get Big

Ohio Player Profile: The Humbly Great

A Word from Amy Spears, Slightly Famous in Roller Derby

3 False Start

Ohio Player Profile: The Wizard

A Word from Amy Spears, Roller Derby Historian

4 Fresh Meat

Ohio Player Profile: The Next Generation

A Word from Amy Spears, Who Invented Roller Derby

5 Pivot

Ohio Player Profile: The Mastermind

A Word from Amy Spears, Married, Divorced, Remarried to Roller Derby

6 Mindful Jockdom

Ohio Player Profile: The Inspiration

A Word from Amy Spears, Washed-Up Roller Derby Skater

7 O-H-I-O

Ohio Player Profile: The Force

A Word from Amy Spears, Derby Lifer

8 Derby Veteran

Ohio Player Profile: The Forever Rookies

A Word from Amy Spears: The Season That Never Happened

9 We Got Tired

Ohio Player Profile: Kegel’s Wife

A Word from Amy Spears: Democracy and Protest

10 Racism in Roller Derby

Ohio Player Profile: A Word from Pain Train

A Word from Amy Spears: Roller Derby in the Future

Epilogue

Acknowledgments