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Though Raygun certainly caught viewers by surprise, she didn’t fall out of coconut tree and find herself at the Paris Olympics. Here’s everything we know about the B-Girl behind the memes.
She’s a lecturer at Macquarie University, where she researches breaking culture.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Dr. Rachael Gunn earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Macquarie University in 2017 after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Music in 2009. She now works at Macquarie as a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature.
According to her official Olympic bio, her research interests are “dance, gender politics, and the dynamics between theoretical and practical methodologies.” In 2016, she published an article titled “Don’t Worry, it’s Just a Girl!”: Negotiating and Challenging Gendered Assumptions in Sydney’s Breakdancing Scene” for the Journal of World Popular Music.
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Raygun was introduced to breaking by her husband and coach, Samuel Free.
According to her Olympic profile, Raygun is a former jazz and ballroom dancer. “I got into breaking through my boyfriend, who’s now my husband, but he was always very encouraging of me to try it out and to learn the moves,” she said in an interview with the Australia and New Zealand online fashion retailer, The Iconic, in April.
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