Portraying roller derby

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Abstract:

As I watch to the end of the news clip, an ambivalent ball grows within: enthusiastic triumph that ‘we’ have made it, the women I know and love finally being represented in mainstream news reporting, coupled with a growing sense of trepidation that the reporter seems once again to be employing the ‘superhero’ approach to roller derby women – ‘mild-mannered reporter by day, hard-hitting derby girl by night’.

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