On Saturday night, I walked into the Austin Convention Center to see a flat roller derby track for the first time. It wasn’t long before groups of uniformed, geared-up women appeared on roller skates to take center stage. My senses were bombarded by the Texas Rollergirls experience. A fan on the sidelines waved a checkered […]
Texas Rollergirls Star in Austinot Podcast, Ep. #7
Flat track roller derby was invented in Austin, so you better believe that the Texas Rollergirls are experts. You know who else is an expert? Austinot Eric Highland. Well, at least that’s what he’d like you to believe. The reality is that Eric has never been to a bout before, but he’s going to get […]
Big Girls Don’t Cry: Texas Rollergirls This Saturday at ACC
I grew up on the straight-laced side of Texas, where getting my ears pierced for a second time was stretching the boundaries just a bit. So should it be all that surprising that when I first heard about Rollergirls, they scared me? I was living up in Seattle at the time, and all the tattoos […]