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29/10/2017 - Five members of the MC Caramel Curves pose with their motorcycle in New Orleans

29/10/2017 - Tru and her fiance Brandon, aka Roca B, a DJ, in New Orleans

29/10/2017 - The heels of a Caramel Curves member

29/10/2017 - Tru's motorcycle. She's the co-founder of the Caramel Curves.

29/10/2017 - Tru, co-founder of the Caramel Curves, pose on her bike in New Orleans

Karma and Icy Baby, near the Pelican Bay, where the club meets, in New Orleans

Karma, of the Caramel Curves MC.

The Caramel Curves on the way to a Second Line.

Coco, the other co-founder, arrive at the Women of Class Second Line

The Caramel Curves arrive at the Women of Class Second Line

The Caramel Curves at the Women of Class Second Line

Karma, of the Caramel Curves at the Women of Class Second Line

The Caramel Curves at the Women of Class Second Line

A Caramel Curves helmet

A Caramel Curves member speaks to a kid at a Second Line

A mural is a hommage to the Caramel Curves

Coco, co-founder of the Caramel Curves, here in her nail salon in New Orleans

Quiet Storm, Caramel Curves member, during a distribution of warm clothes to families in need, in New Orleans

Coco, co-Founder of the Caramel Curves,during a distribution of warm clothes to families in need, in New Orleans

Icy Baby wears the Caramel Curves jacket.

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In the notorious streets of jazzy New Orleans, their engines thunder like a brass band. The “Caramel Curves” is the wildest biker club of the old south. With their 12 centimeters heels, assertive curves, pink lipstick, skinny jeans and decorated helmets, these freewheelin’ feminists have built around them a community of solidarity and empowerment.

After working to help their sisters of bikes, scattered by the winds of Katrina, they now encourage the vocations of girls bikers, bruised by a society where Barbie is the queen. On the hot asphalt of the streets of the French Quarter or the merciless interchanges that pass through the neighborhoods, the Caramel Curves build day after day a more beautiful New Orleans.

[Published in Paris Match, August 2018]

Juliette Robert – Photographer

Queens of the asphalt