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THE JUKE JOINT FLIRT’N’GRIND CASTS ITS CHARACTERS ON SIGHT, BUT SKATES LET YOU SWITCH SIDES AND TIGHTROPE BETWEEN THOSE WELL-WORN GROOVES.
BIG MASC BOYS&BOIS SHUFFLE AND SWITCHFEET DELICATE, WEARING TALL TEES THAT DON’T HIDE THEIR HIPS ROLLING, BALANCE HANDS SWIMMING IN THE AIR WITH WRISTS UNSTRAIGHTENED IF NOT LIMP. THEY LINK ARMS WITH THEIR BOYS AND INTERLACE TO FORM TRAINS CHAINS DAISY-CHAINS, TOUCHING SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER ALMOST CHEST-TO-CHEST, AND PUSHPULL TOGETHER, PUSHPULL GLIDING, HOLDING TIGHT
THICK FEMMES WITH HIGH-PONIES AND TOPKNOT BRAIDS SWINGING IN EACH TWIRL, UNFURL LIKE FLAGS, LIKE THEY COULD STRETCH LIKE RIBBONS AND WRAP THE WHOLE RINK UP, WAVING WITH EACH SMOOTH TURN. NEON BODYCON FISHNET FLORAL ATHLEISURE CROP DEEP-V DAISY DUKE BOOTYSHORT LEOTARD LEOPARD PRINT FENTYPARK SET FITTED FITTED FITTED FLY FLEX FLOW
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DeeJays United Atlanta Skating @ Sparkles Smyrna
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IDENTITY ON SKATES IS POSES, CHARACTERS, FLASHES, SIGNALS
A FUGITIVE UTOPIA OF KALEIDOSCOPE ENCOUNTERS
A FUGITIVE UTOPIA
RUNNING ON 8 WHEELS FEELS LIKE ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE FEELS
A FUGITIVE UTOPIA
IN THE RING OF SWIRLING BODIES EACH BODY IS UNCLOCKABLE IN MOTION, FREELY BLURRED, IMPOSSIBLY EVASIVE
YET THE SINGLE SKATER IS LEGIBLE ALONE CUT HYPERVISIBLE
THE SKTERFUGITVEALTRN IS INSEPARABLE FROM THE COLLECTIVE CIRCUITSYSTOPIA
THE RINK
THE RINK IS SUSTAINED BY CONTACT
TOUCHES TO STEADY, TOUCHES TO LINK, TOUCHES TO FLIRT, TOUCHES TO DANCE
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ROLLER SKATING IS NONBINARY PLAY FOR ALL AND WHEN I DO IT IT’S WORSHIP
I WANT TO BE UTTERLY UNCLOCKABLE
ROLLER SKATING MAKES ALL BODIES FLUID
ALL MOVEMENTS BOTH FAMILIAR AND UNFAMILIAR, BOTH EFFORTLESS AND EXHAUSTIVELY PRACTICED
REINSCRIBED GENDER SIGNIFIERS GETS MESSY WHEN MASTERY IS LOOKING SILKY SMOOTH WITH IT, BUTTERY, THE BODY ROLLING RECEPTIVE, JOINTS FLOURISHING AND MAYBE FLAMING, FEMME AS FUCK NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU PEPPER IN BICEP FLEXES AND GAS FACES
ALL FORMS OF STEPPIN LOOK LIKE STROLLIN WHEN YOU ROCK 8 WHEELS AND THERE IS NOTHING TO BE DONE ABOUT IT
WHEN YOU HIT THE DEATH DROP ON SKATES YOU CAN GLIDE BACK UP IN THE SAME MOTION
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CAN’T READ A MOVING TARGET
CAN’T READ A ROLLING BODY
AND WE’RE ALL ROLLING BODIES
LIGHTS OFF FOR A SECOND EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY
BEAT DROP FOR A SECOND EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY
BLINK ONCE FOR A SECOND EVERYBODY LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY
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ON THE STREET, SUNLIGHT, NO PADS, CUTE HELMET, SKATE THE WRONG WAY UP A ONE-WAY AND BOUNCE WITH IT LIKE AND WHAT
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LACE UP TO GET FREE. LACE UP MORE TO GO THAN TO GET SOMEWHERE
LET THE BALANCING ACT UNFREEZE YOUR HIPS
WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT WHY THEY’RE ALWAYS FROZEN
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THE ROLLER RINK IS A LOOP
LOOPING TRACK
NOSTALGIA, MEMORY, OVERLAPPING LIBRARIES
UNRULY AURAL ARCHIVES
NEW DANCES TO OLD SONGS
GROWN FOLKS MUSIC AND THAT STUFF YOU GREW UP WITH AND THAT NEW NEW SHIT
ALL AGES VENUE
LAYER AND REMIX, NEW TRACKS OVER OLD
THE WOOD MARKS MEMORY
THIS PLACE HAS ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THIS
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SKATE UNTIL OUR LEGS SORE SKATE UNTIL OUR ANKLES BRUISE SKATE UNTIL WE ALMOST FALL SKATE UNTIL WE GET ENOUGH SKATE UNTIL THE VENUE CLOSES SKATE UNTIL WE HEAR OUR SONG SKATE UNTIL THE DAMN THING BREAKS SKATE UNTIL WE CAN’T HOLD ON SKATE UNTIL THE FLOOR IS WORN SKATE UNTIL THE WHEELS ARE FUCKED SKATE UNTIL WE WANT TO STOP SKATE HOME SKATE HOME SKATE HOME
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“valentine’s day. 2005. he clicked the lock and opened it, and took out the strangest, most singular pair of roller skates I had ever seen. they were clear skates that lit up, and when you skate the friction of the wheels to the ground shoots rainbow sparks into your trail. he took them out and did a big lap around the rink. and the nigga could skate!!!!! man. he could skate like he could sing."
"We could rent some roller skates / We could skate around the lake" (Steppin, 1991)
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Jim Crow skates. Skates on big-ass ugly gray polyurethane wheels that tear up the floor finishing, too. Roller rinks paralleled dancehalls as spaces for young people to meet and flirt and bump and grind, and therefore became targets for heightened fears about interracial getting downs. Way back CORE recruited skaters from the black Savoy rink to play the “tripping game” at the white rinks. When violent whites attempted to trip the Savoy skaters, the protesters skated down their hateful asses and kept it bumping, despite the hard-felt absence of their home turf deejays. Rinks still ban “saggy pants” and “hip hop music” today. But really what all that’s saying is if niggas can skate we might be fucking irresistible, like we generate gravity on every loop around the floor and every revolution is a revolution like the uncles say, and they don’t want all of this over there, and honestly look at all this swag left over from us scraping and making our own way in our own spaces ALL THIS DAMN SWAG
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