Body By Derby: Gender Non-Conforming

Body By Derby is a figure study of active derby athletes to show the different body types of active skaters and the physical effects derby has on the players. This entry features derby athletes who identify as butch, trans*, gender non-conforming, or intersex of any variance.  These skaters represent Ann Arbor Derby Dimes, Bleeding Heartland Roller Derby, Ohio Roller Girls, Providence Roller Derby, and our hosts Windy City Rollers. More pictures can be found at Cory's website. Get future updates on Facebook by following The Rollergirl Project.

From Left: Rogue Scholar, Melicious Mischief, Zoe Trocious, The Smacktivist, Trannie Oakley, June Gloom, Val Capone and Ms Dr Joseph L Simonis

	Name	Rogue Scholar
	League Affiliation	Bleeding Heartland Roller Derby
	Gender Identity	Genderqueer
	Age	23
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	145 lbs
	Weight before derby	140 lbs
	Started	2013
	Key Position	Jammer & Offensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	7 hours
	Other Workout	I do cardio, run occasionally, and weight training.
	Diet	Vegetarian. I try to get as much protein as I can but eat whatever I want.
	Laps in 5 minutes	30 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Mostly running. I started off with cross country and track, moved on to 1/2 marathons and one marathon.

	Name	Melicious Mischief
	League Affiliation	Ann Arbor Derby Dimes
	Gender Identity	I am a trans-women and derby has helped me make so much more of myself then I ever thought I would be.
	Age	25
	Children	2 kids, ages 6 and 5
	Height	5’ 9''
	Weight	200 lbs
	Weight before derby	220 lbs
	Started	August 2014
	Key Position	Jammer & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	10 hours
	Other Workout	Wait there are other ways to workout besides derby?
	Diet	Food.
	Laps in 5 minutes	28 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Does the military count as athletic experience?

	Name	Zoe Trocious
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Age	34
	Children	None
	Height	5' 6"
	Weight	140 lbs
	Weight before derby	130 lbs
	Started	2009
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	8 to 10 hours
	Other Workout	Weights, plyometrics, running.
	Diet	I eat as many calories as possible, in every variety.
	Laps in 5 minutes
	Previous Athletic Experience	I ran cross country and track in high school and played rugby in college.

	Name	The Smacktivist
	League Affiliation	Ohio Roller Girls
	Gender Identity	Non-binary, genderfluid. I use they/them pronouns. I am this AND that.
	Age	23
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	??
	Weight before derby	??
	Started	Fall of 2011
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	6 to 8 hours
	Other Workout	I'm a bike commuter, plus I hit the gym for weight lifting 5-6 times per week.
	Diet	I'm vegan and gluten free.
	Laps in 5 minutes	33 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Development swim team, youth soft ball, youth travel soccer, school cross country and track, roller hockey, tier I AAA travel ice hockey.

	Name	Trannie Oakley
	League Affiliation	Providence Roller Derby
	Gender Identity	I identify as a trans woman, and use the pronouns she, and her.
	Age	33
	Children	None
	Height	5' 10”
	Weight	190 lbs
	Weight before derby	175 lbs
	Started	Summer 2013
	Key Position	Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	11 hours
	Other Workout	Four hours cardio / week
	Diet	Ha. No.. I try to but I’m not very good about it.
	Laps in 5 minutes	32 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Soccer in childhood through high school, and I wrestled four years in high school.

	Name	June Gloom
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Gender Identity	I identify as transgender, exist as transfeminine, and am a trans lady. My pronouns are context specific: I'm generally indifferent, but in female spaces, I require female pronouns.
	Age	28
	Children	None
	Height	6’ 7”
	Weight	270 lbs
	Weight before derby	200 lbs
	Started	2011
	Key Position	Offensive Blocker & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	8 hours
	Other Workout	I attend a Kettlebells class, jump rope, and bike.
	Diet	N/A
	Laps in 5 minutes	29 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Not much beyond Junior Varsity Volleyball

	Name	Val Capone
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Age	36
	Children	None
	Height	5' 9"
	Weight	179 lbs
	Weight before derby	226 lbs
	Started	July 2004
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	Depending on work schedule, I skate 3-5 practices a week plus coach one
	Other Workout	I'm a gym rat and love the free weights. I also speed skate Saturday mornings before the sun comes up. It's a love/hate relationship, for sure.
	Diet	Well, because I have Crohn's I'm on a special "try it!" Basically it's a try it and see if it works diet? I used to be the queen of the all you can eat buffet, but now I get full before even finishing a sandwich. I can't have any red meat, which is a bit of a heartbreaker, but I can have cheese, thankfully. I was also told that I shouldn't have sushi, but that ban will be lifted on my birthday this Friday, per doctors orders, of course. I drink a lot of Muscle Milk protein shakes and eat a lot of applesauce squeezers. I'm, essentially, on a toddlers diet. Today's lunch at work consisted of half a grilled cheese sandwich, a few bites of mashed potatoes and about three green beans, ha. It's a work in progress to say the least...
	Laps in 5 minutes	n/a-I'll be redoing this soon once I get full clearance, but I couldn't tell you off the top of my head
	Previous Athletic Experience	I've been weight lifting since I was 14 years old and I've been a bowler my entire life, ha. I actually have a couple of giant trophies atop my fridge. I've also been roller skating since I was about 6 or 7 years old.

	Name	Ms Dr Joseph L Simonis
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Gender Identity	To be honest, I try to avoid giving people identity labels about my gender (ditto sexuality) as much as possible. I would much rather exist than try to describe my existence with necessarily limiting terms. But I also realize that most of society works from gender labels (and in particular, a binary set of options), and so I have a cultivated set of functional identity labels that I use to describe my gender, depending on the situation, including "myself", "woman", "transgender", "genderqueer", "queer", "genderfluid", "agender", "butch", "non-binary", and "neutrois", amongst others.
	Age	30
	Children	None
	Height	6' 2"
	Weight	~190 lbs
	Weight before derby	~190 lbs
	Started	May 2012
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	10 to 15 hours
	Other Workout	Lots of off skates workouts, interval training mostly. I like beach running and hill running.
	Diet	I'm a vegetarian and I'm pretty lactose intolerant.
	Laps in 5 minutes	I think it was 32 in 5? We don't test laps that often, I just 30.5 coming out of offseason.
	Previous Athletic Experience	I definitely grew up in an athletic household. I started playing organized sports when I was five years old (soccer and baseball, although I dropped soccer pretty quickly). I played baseball for 12 years, played football for 8 years, wrestled for 6 years, and also played a few seasons of basketball and track, as well. I was pretty serious with sports through high school and was recruited to wrestle in college (at a few D3 schools, not big programs), but stopped playing organized sports after high school. I was still physically active in college and grad school but mostly just worked out at the gym, although I did also play intramural soccer and picked up rock climbing.