All posts tagged "Sports"
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In Defense of Pole Dancing
By Kira Jane Admitting to it causes the first onset of swine flu-like symptoms: the beads of sweat, searchlight eyeballs, shivers to rival a damp...
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On “America’s New Sweetheart”: Gabby Douglas, Black Performance, and Belonging
By John Murillo III Meditations on African performance and subjectivity are always already spoken by this grammar and haunted by these ghosts. For whatever...
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The Hijab on the Pitch
By Laurent Dubois On Friday, July 6, the French Football Federation announced that it would ban the wearing of hijab during all organized competitions held...
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"Shooting For My Own Hand”: A Review of Brave
By Willa Kirsch-Stancliff and Mason Casper-Milam Merida is the main character in the new Disney Pixar movie Brave. She is a strong-willed female lead and...
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Reflections on Manny-gayte
By Theresa Runstedtler I’ve been a fervent Pacquiao fan for many years but “Manny-gayte” has left me feeling uneasy about my loyalty to him in...
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Still Mama's Baby–The Continued Relevance of the American Grammar Book: A Prologue
I have always been awful at football. And for that, I give thanks. The first thing I want to do is to thank my mother,...
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Masculinity, the NFL, and Concussions
The defenders of the National Football League (NFL) have been busy. In the wake of the suicide of Junior Seau, on the heels of several...
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When Injured Brains Speak
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper Last year in TFW, we wrote about the gendered aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting stark differences between...
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NY Boy Wants to Stay on Girls Field Hockey Squad
A 13-year-old New York boy who played field hockey growing up in Ireland has been told that after two years as a member of the...
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Why Roland Martin's Homophobic Tweets Shouldn't Be Ignored, Even Now
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow Over and over again as racially-conscious, Black feminist lesbian and gay people, we find ourselves...
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"Truth to Power:"? No Truth or Empowerment in Jason Whitlock's Tweet
By the Collective (see below) The Feminist Wire | New Black Man We come together to express our collective disappointment over Jason Whitlock’s recent tweet about Jeremy Lin. ...
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A Super Failure: Domestic Violence and Football's Big Game
For the longest time I have heard that Super Bowl Sunday was a day of heightened domestic violence. Linked to alcohol consumption, frustrations over the...
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“Oh Hello No”: Homophobia and those t-shirts ain’t no joke
By David J. Leonard The college football season came to an end last night. It marked the conclusion of a bowl season that has been...
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Media, Sports and Black Queer Youth: Tayshana Murphy and the Dimming of Stars
I didn’t know Tayshana Murphy was gay. I’m from Harlem, and I like to think I’m tapped into important conversations among New York’s LGBTQ people...
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It Matters what Team You Play For: Heteronormativity in Sports
Oscar Wilde once described the game of Rugby as “a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.” While Wilde...
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Penn State Evil
By Charles E. Bowie As a former athlete and football player I struggled in coming to terms with what happened at Penn State. The cult...
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Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?
By Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper In the words of American poet Adrienne Rich, “All wars are useless to the dead.” Yet, while...