The Great Skate Tour: Skate for a Voice
Photo credit: Jade Emilio Snell
From July to September 2024, Skeet Fighter will embark on a cross-country roller skating adventure, covering the distance from Washington State to Washington DC. But this is more than just a skating tour; it's a powerful initiative to raise awareness about the urgent and often overlooked issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP).
You can help support Skeet Fighter by purchasing a super awesome coloring book here: https://a.co/d/1xdglhZ
Or Click the link to the right and head over to Skeet Fighter's GoFundMe.
Skeet fighter socials:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/skeet_fighter
Instagram: @skeet_fighter
Facebook: Skeet Fighter
Tiktok: @skeet_fighter
The Coming Hot into the Box with Slice and Karnage: A Roller Derby Podcast Podcast
Mighty Millie Novak by Elizabeth Holden (AKA Auntie Matter) Available aug 20, 2024
Auntie's website: elizabeth-holden.com
Mighty Millie Novak : elizabeth-holden.com/millie links to purchase the book at various retailers, and a link to the pre-order swag form to get the trading cards--trading cards available until May 16, 2024.
Auntie's Instagram account: @ElizabethH_WI
Auntie's email: elizabeth.holden.author@gmail.com
Book purchasing info for derby leagues: If derby leagues want to sell copies of Mighty Millie Novak (as a fundraiser, as a team book club, as general merch, etc.) they can purchase a box of 13 copies (or more, of course :-) ) for a 46% discount (and free shipping) and then sell them at whatever price they'd like, to raise money for their league. (for reference, the book retails for 14.99 and with this discount, it would be $8.10, so that would be a profit of $6.89 per book) If your league is interested in doing this, contact Auntie at her email address (elizabeth.holden.author@gmail.com) and she can put you in touch with the person at the publisher who is handling this.
X-Files podcast: wewanttobelievepod.com and @wewanttobelievepod on Instagram
Blood City rollers by v.p. anderson and tatiana hill
Skates on. Fangs out. Let’s roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice skater who embraces the dark side and finds her light when she joins a vampire roller derby team is to die for.
Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and glory—that is, until she totally wipes out at her biggest competition, and is kinda-sorta-kidnapped by undead kids on roller skates. Sucked into the high stakes world of Paranormal Roller Derby, she finds herself "recruited" by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their team—just in time to save the league from losing it all.
Between learning to play derby well enough to kick butt on the track, crushing hard on the dreamy team captain, and navigating the spooky rules of the supernatural, how can Mina go from striving to be a ten alone, to becoming one of nine chaotic bodies forming a perfectly-imperfect team? Forget being the best. Will she be enough to help her new friends survive the season?
Veronica Park (VP) Anderson (she/they) is a neurodivergent, queer, feminist millennial writer with a resume that Victor Frankenstein would disown for being “a bit much.” V’s previous job titles include: award-winning community theater actor, professional lecturer on cruise ships, indie film producer, literary agent, and creative project manager; however, “writer” is the title that always fits. V plays competitive flat track roller derby as “Scarlet Five” #55 and prefers the pivot role, aka “surprise jamming.” Born in Alaska and raised in Oregon, she currently lives with her partner in Upstate NY and has two cats named Skeletor and Bo-Catan.
Tatiana Hill (she/her) is a Black and Latina illustrator by day and roller skater by night. Her art journey began alongside her love for anime in the early 2000s and culminated with a BA in Animation. Receiving awards for Best Art Direction, she would later apply her skill set in color and design to illustration. Born in Los Angeles and a member of the roller skate community there, Tatiana enjoys participating in a space that celebrates diversity, identity, and found family. She illustrated The Roller World Tarot deck and Blood City Rollers, her debut graphic novel as an illustrator.
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