The Healing Black Joy of Rollerskating

Its popularity during the pandemic reminds of how much it’s been safety and self-care for me and my people for decades

Ruth Terry
ZORA
Published in
4 min readJul 20, 2020

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Photo: Tasneem Howa/Getty Images

Thanks to the pandemic, roller skating is trending so hard that stores are running out of skates. #Rollerskating has over two billion views on Tik Tok, the social platform that kicked off the nostalgic…

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Ruth Terry
ZORA
Writer for

American freelancer in Istanbul writing about culture, mental health, race & travel. Bylines everywhere from Al Jazeera to Zora. Tw: @Ruth_Terry | IG: @ruth.ist