Episode 2.4 Pt I : Shovel AKA Fat_Girl_Has_Moxi + QueerGirlStraightSkates

Rebel and Shove, AKA Shovel  are a skating couple that would be hard to miss if you spend any time on skate IG or Youtube! You might know them better by their IG handles @queergirlstraightskates & @fat_girl_has_moxi. If you haven’t heard, they’re two recently engaged down to earth and yet over the top skating fat femmes in love! With different approaches to skating that compliment one another, and a life in which they’re each other’s biggest cheerleader. 

In this chat we get inside their heads about what it’s like to have such a vast online audience, and how they cope with balancing the concept of their brands with who they are as individuals. 

Both of them open up about their current goals ranging from strength training to leveling up their chops via dance skating gigs (Including skating with P!NK for the AMAs!). 

They also share revelatory anecdotes of how they’ve taught each other so much about life, you’ll have to listen to really grasp this bit! 

We chat about their mutual passion for community building online and IRL, as they’ve hosted some of the most successful Roll Outs in Long Beach that bring body positivity and queer identity to the forefront. 

We delve into their experiences as young people, and they reflect on their shared struggles with eating disorders and later learning to celebrate their bodies. 

They both experienced immense growth through the pandemic, in their professional skills in and outside of Roller Skating. We explore how the pandemic skate boom is leveling out, and the importance of fostering community as a skate brand to remain vital as a roller skating business. 

We get into the transformative role that fashion, adornment, and expanding options in plus sized fashion play in their lives and how it has impacted how they show up in community. 

In short, we cover a lot of ground, and it’s an absolute laugh riot of FUN!


Check out Rebel's shop loaded with queer and roller skate treasures from skate accessories to cute sunnies!
 

https://www.cheerstothequeers.com/

Follow their podcast on IG: 

https://www.instagram.com/skatedatepod/?hl=en

Listen to their podcast, Skate Date! What's better than two roller skaters in love?: 

https://open.spotify.com/show/36B0jBzrCjYKkHXBTEKy9f

Follow Shove on IG! :


https://www.instagram.com/fat_girl_has_moxi/?hl=en

Follow Rebel on IG! :


https://www.instagram.com/queergirlstraightskates/?hl=en

Thanks to Shove, we've got some killer playlists for ya! :

The Basics So you Won’t be Basic 

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