She Wrestles

Women’s wrestling is now the fastest-growing youth sport around the world. She Wrestles artfully interweaves remarkable stories of young women in the American heartland who surmount trauma and find joy by embracing the ancient sport of wrestling. Though patriarchal societies have long discouraged women from wrestling, that dam is breaking just in time to give teenage girls a courage-building, deeply embodied, community-based antidote to social media, depression, and our always-online culture.