Jaala Shaw Articles

All photos by GORUCK Did you see me crying at that fire?  I was dejected in my friend’s arms, sobbing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. Do you wonder what I was thinking about during that moment I couldn’t speak and Jason shooed the camera away asking to give me...

As a child it was my dream to swim in the Olympics. I had watched the US women, specifically the tiny Janet Evans, crush a drugged East German team in 1988 and set multiple world records; I was in awe. I wanted to be just like Janet Evans, and all of the other...