Moscow( CNN) By day, Aurelie is a public “teachers ” in Moscow, but after run, she escapes to the outskirts of the Russian capital to a bare Soviet-era gymnasium, where she is known as “La Debouche, ” the rebel.
“I finally gratified women similar to me, ” says Aurelie, who moved here from France five years ago. “We are all different, and we accept that you can be different. In school, girls learn to be nice and pretty. But “were not” about that.”
Roller derby has attracted females across the globe keen on breaking gender norms. In Russia, the idea of women playing a contact athletic is still something to get used to.
