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Collected Item: “World-Wide Roller Skate Shortage”

Give your story a title.

World-Wide Roller Skate Shortage

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

news article, Vogue

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Roller-skating has recently become a viral trend, to the point that major skate companies have been sold out for weeks. While the hobby has been alive and well within Black and skate communities, it has had a massive resurgence in popularity in the mainstream.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

roller skate, skate, shortage, HST396

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.vogue.com/article/roller-skate-sold-out

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Sarah Spellings

Give this story a date.

2020-07-02
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