‘People need a reason to fight’, Angela (pictured) tells Brazilian photographer Luisa Dörr, ‘and mine is my [12-year-old] son.’ Dörr spent 10 days in El Alto, Bolivia, with a group of indigenous women wrestlers known as the Flying Cholitas. They perform every Sunday, often in mixed-gender matches, and train twice a week – polleras (skirts) and plaits flying high. Recognizable by their iconic attire, Bolivia’s indigenous Aymara and Quechua women have been socially ostracized for decades. Dörr, born in Lajeado, Brazil, discovered photography at 22. Her work has been published in TIME, National Geographic and The New Yorker, among others.
