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A tangle of ten women careers down the wooden track at the Austin Sports Center in South Austin. The two teams, demarcated by their distinctly different uniforms of gingham tops and denim cutoffs versus the pleated skirts and white tie-front button-downs of a Catholic schoolgirl Halloween costume, ram into and shove each other as Pat Benatar blares and the audience goes wild from the stands.For years, Felicia Graham found herself right beside the action, seated on the ground next to the players’ bench, taking photo after photo with her Nikon. “I got addicted from the get-go,” says Graham, who first encountered flat-track roller derby in 2005, when she was a graduate student studying photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin. “It was just empowering…
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