![]() In his book Mythologies, critic Roland Barthes writes about “The World of Wrestling.” In one of the earliest dissections of pro wrestling as cultural artifact, Barthes describes how a wrestling match “demands an immediate reading of the juxtaposed meanings, so that there is no need to connect them” (18). This is the truth of both the relationship between the speaker and her mother and between wrestlers and their audiences. The transition from the speaker’s story to Dog’s blinding isn’t seamless, but it doesn’t have to be - these are two stories of parents and their children, of believing what you’re told happened and refusing to believe the story unfolding in front of your eyes. The blinding wasn’t real, but wrestling fans believed it was, which got Junkyard Dog over as a fan favorite and made the Freebirds the most hated men in the territory. However changed, is one she still picturesĪrrand juxtaposes the mother’s inability to acknowledge the trans body with a story about the time pro wrestler Junkyard Dog was attacked by the Fabulous Freebirds and blinded with a handful of hair cream, which caused Dog to miss seeing the birth of his daughter. My voice is still her son’s voice, my body, Arrand begins: My mother says that she hasn’t adjustedīecause she has no evidence of my womanhood. The opening poem, “The Use of Roland Barthes to Justify One’s Love of Wrestling,” lets us know precisely what the book is about. These poems are ambitious and dizzyingly good. They triangulate hypermasculinity, queerness, and homophobia in wrestling, conveying the painful experience of encountering these things as Arrand’s speaker comes to terms with her own trans identity. Her poems portray and confront the ways masculinity is performed and learned through professional wrestling. For Arrand’s speaker, wrestling is more than two dudes duking it out wearing just their briefs and a pair of boots. Rack and fender mounts, E.D.Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon is a poetry book about professional wrestling because Colette Arrand refuses any distinction between high and low culture. TranzX Dropper, 30.9, 80mm travel, 31.8 trigger clamp WTB 32h, Shimano driver, 6 bolt rotor mount Externally tapered, ovalized, and dimpled chain stays, tapered seat stays, replaceable derailleur hanger.Ĥ130 CroMoly tapered fork blades, mountain lugged crown & thru-axle dropouts, straight steertube, IS disc brake tabs Here’s the max ring sizes for each setup: 1X = 38T, 2X = 28/42, 3X = 26/36/48.Ħ12 Select CroMoly steel. 700c x 38 keeps the BB about the same.Īs for building it up, there are three cable mounts on the downtube, giving you the option of adding a front derailleur or a dropper post. If you want to run a 700c tire the max is a 42mm tire which will raise your BB by 8mm. The resulting slightly lower BB gives the bike excellent manners when riding with a load and is fully endorsed by us. Some of you will want to throw 650b x 47c’s in it and that’s cool. For on and off-road touring duties, it is the jam. They believe that nothing soaks up bumps or is as durable as a high quality steel fork. The Gorilla is made from All-City's 612 Select tubing and features a lovely bi-plane crown steel fork. coating for rust prevention, and three water bottle mounts. Peep the features: Front and rear thru-axles, front and rear rack and fender mounts, compatibility with Surly-8 and 24-Pack racks, stealth dropper post routing, 27.5 x 2.4” tire clearance (650b x 48 with fenders), signature All-City dropouts, E.D. Want to do mixed pavement and single track rides? Put in long days off-road? Do some fire road touring? Camping? Ride across the continent? No problem. ![]() ![]() All-City's most densely featured bike ever, fully hitting everything on their checklist for a steed that can take you far into the unknown in comfort, style, and elegance. They've taken the capabilities of their famed cross bikes and built a Monster. A sweet beast whose only limits are your imagination and will power. Taking their love of riding drop bar bikes off-road to its logical conclusion, All-City presents you with the Gorilla Monsoon.
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