There and Back Again, My Mask’s Tale
Spending so much time making gear for other people got me thinking back through the process of ordering my first mask and set of gear. These are the original concept […]
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2015 Wrap Up
‘Tis the season of twinkle lights, frosty weather, and hot toddies! The blog has been pretty dormant lately because 2015 has been wrapping up quietly. October through December tends to […]
StoryCorps: An Interview for Posterity
I’ll own up to this: I listen to NPR. With some regularity, in fact. With that in mind, you can imagine my glee when my coach said he’d lined up […]
Adventures in Sewing: Fun With Lycra
After the hours upon hours spent training, there is nothing more satisfying than donning the gaudy lycra that is your show gear and parading your hard-earned skills in front of […]
The Nacho Libre Complex
I have mixed feelings about Nacho Libre, most of them tending toward general dislike. I’ve never been overly fond of Jack Black’s humor to begin with, and for that reason alone […]
Recap: Lucha Libre at the Bridge
Last Sunday marks the fourth (yes, the fourth) year in a row that Lucha Libre Volcánica has put on a summer show in South Park, Seattle. Despite the usual complement […]
Looking Back on LdS II: Remembering My Debut
On March 9, 2013, nineteen masked men and one masked woman brought an all-out war between good and evil down upon a small, private, Liberal Arts College. It wasn’t the […]
My First Big College Adventure, Or, “How I was invited to try lucha libre”
Nobody enters their first semester of college knowing exactly what to expect. That said, I don’t think anyone goes in imagining that they’ll be invited to take up lucha […]
Where are the women?
A few questions I regularly get asked: “Are you the only woman?” “Do you wrestle men?” “And… there are no other women?” A bit redundant, no? Welcome to my life. […]
Third Time’s the Charm- The high points of “Titanes de la Lucha Libre”
On November 24th I found myself back in the ring with Rey Jaguar up against our old rivals, El Chicano and Faviola Astral. Needless to say I was a tad […]
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