For These Black Women, Roller-Skating Allows Them to Take Up Space

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The feeling that roller-skating creates is like flying. Magical, unforgettable, impossible ✨

With the advent of COVID-19, support systems and skating routines have been reshuffled. “Quarantine really pushed me to get back into skating every day,” says, a UCI college student born and raised in Long Beach, who was sent home from on-campus student housing a few months ago. Bravo now skates every day, whether it's in front of her house or even inside while cooking.

The pandemic has also brought an upsurge in skating interest and exposure, which reveals its contemporary racial politics across the United States. Skate-dedicated social media accounts kept blowing up and “everything was sold out,” says Bravo, including skates, wheels, and accessories. News media outlets called it a “,” writing about approximations of Black style while writing around the Black history of roller-skating, a cultural practice that has never gone away.

 

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