B.A.D. Girls

Iva Vendetta, Miss Moxxxie, Ghoulina, and the other Bay Area Derby Girls are into piercings, tattoos, partying, sexual innuendo, and whatever they decide roller derby is going to be

A A A Comments By Ron Russell Wednesday, Jun 1 2005

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Gabriela Hasbun

The Derby Girls skate late at night in a converted hangar because it's the only time they can secure a rink to themselves.

Gabriela Hasbun

A "jammer" (Ghoulina) whizzes up from behind another skater.

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She asks for her purse, pulls out a camera phone, and snaps pictures of the damage to her mouth as calmly as if checking her makeup. Sandra Daly (Sandra Dee Molish) drives her to a hospital emergency room while another Derby Girl follows in the injured skater's car. Another skater, who lives nearby, offers to put Jeromin up for the night. But Jeromin is intent on driving home to San Jose, where, the next morning, a dentist extracts her two front pearly whites. By afternoon, the photos she has taken of herself are posted on the Derby Girls' Web site, along with a plea for donations to help her buy new teeth. She's told that they may cost $6,000, but Mad Maxine seems just as concerned about something else: "They say I may not be able to skate for a few days."

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