Girl on girl: Staring down the male gaze
For about the first year and an half of my time practicing lucha libre, I was the only woman who trained at our gym. While I was limited by the […]
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So, you want to wear a mask?
As I mentioned briefly in my post about selecting a name, I am not Mexican. I am, in fact, a pretty common specimen of white (aside from the 1/8 of my […]
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 […]
Holding Out for a (Super) Hero
Brightly colored spandex, closely kept secret identities, powers like flight and super-strength. Sound familiar? Story of my life. I firmly maintain that being a luchador or luchadora is by far […]
Lucha: It does the body good. Or “The narcissistic photo post”
The amount of spandex worn whilst doing lucha libre is not for the faint of heart. However, given lucha’s history of barrel-shaped, corpulent, strong-bodied wrestlers, a lean figure is by […]
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. […]
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