Georgia Gowing

Paris is the city of romance, the City of Light, of the Can-Can and absinthe and art, of sky-high heels and croissants and coffee. But for the unashamedly ghoulish or even just the mildly melancholy, it is not hard to look beneath all that glamour and find a city of darkness. Welcome to dead Paris. […]

The women are fast and fabulous, tutus and tattoos go together like bread and butter, and a lurid purple bruise is a badge of honour. Welcome to roller derby. Derby has taken off like a retro rocket since its rebirth in Texas in 2006. Every state in Australia now has at least one league. In […]