Archive for September, 2011

In no particular order, these are five elements of roller derby that make it awesome: 5.The novelty of the game is unlike anything you’ve seen. You have tough females skating fast, hitting each other, often in revealing uniforms. Even if you don’t know the first thing about the strategy behind the game, it’s just plain […]

Roller derby is a passion, it’s all consuming, a love for something that can destroy your body, and ignite the soul. Unfortunately, we don’t get paid to do it, if we did, let’s be honest, I’d happily accept minimum wage and live on ramen and carnage. When we’re on the track, we’re athletes: calculating, strategizing, […]

The Chicago Outfit has just finished our own It Gets Better video. If you’re unfamiliar, the It Gets Better campaign is an anti-bullying campaign that originally focused on preventing LGBT youth suicide related to LGBT youth being bullied at school. It has now grown into a movement fighting bullying in all of its forms by having […]

On September 19, 2009 I was a derby infant who was trying to learn how to skate and having a blast attending the WFTDA North Central Regional Tournament (“Brawl of America”) in Minneapolis. I still wasn’t clear on all of the rules of the sport, and whenever a skater performed a turn around toe stop […]

With the beginning of September comes the end of summer, back to school, back to business, and only about a month of glorious fall before we all know that dreaded Chicago winter hits us like a punch in the beanie capped head. But before the dead of winter, the Outfit has a few more fall […]