All posts tagged "Sports"
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How Nike’s Neoliberal Feminism Came to Rule the Global South
By Maria Hengeveld The first time Nike tried to convince American consumers that it cared about women’s equality was in 1987, when the shoe giant aired...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Everyday Athlete
By Mariah Conn Start workout. My shoe feels loose. Glance behind. This hill is too steep. Nailed it. Oh, the tunnel. Better take out...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival DUE 6/1/15
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share...
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ELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: Being a Feminist at Fourteen
By Olivia Emin I go to a school where the boys outnumber the girls. This isn’t a small difference; there are pretty much two and...
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Op-Ed: The NFL’s Response to Violence Against Women: Why One Fan Won’t Watch This Year
This is an issue of basic human dignity and respect. I, as a man, am perfectly capable of not beating up my wife and children....
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On Michael Sam Coming Out
By Cheryl Cooky Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal...
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On Disability and Cartographies of Difference
By Wilfredo Gomez I recently returned to my alma mater to encounter a rather peculiar and interesting narrative about my legacy. While interacting with former...
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Feminists We Love: Michael Kimmel (Video)
Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University, is a nationally-recognized scholar and activist committed to the study of manhood...
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“We Ball Harder”: Talking About Sports, Race, Gender, and Pleasure
By Tamura A. Lomax, David J. Leonard, Darnell L. Moore, Heather Laine Talley, and Monica J. Casper A few months ago, at the exhilarating height...
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Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The...
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Urgent: Press Release: An Open Letter to President Susan Herbst, the UConn Community, Barstool Sports, and others on Behalf of Carolyn Luby
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2013 In light of the recent vitriolic, anti-feminist, misogynist, and malevolent backlash directed at UConn senior Carolyn Luby in response...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to UConn President Susan Herbst
Dear President Susan Herbst, I write to you today as a UConn student, but more specifically as a UConn woman and feminist. I want to...
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On Mistreating Female Athletes
By Allison Javors and Wade Davis, II I fell in love with Women’s College Basketball in 1993. I can remember watching Sheryl Swoopes score 47...
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Op-Ed: Jack Johnson and the Racial Politics of a Presidential Pardon
On March 5, U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), William “Mo” Cowan (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Peter King (R-NY) put forth a resolution...
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Wade Davis: On Sports and Masculinity
An activist, commentator, and change agent, Davis has emerged as one of the most prominent voices of his generation. Davis is a former NFL football...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About American Indian Imagery in Sports: Thoughts on Mascots and Racialized Masculinity
By C. Richard King When we talk about Native American mascots, we are talking about the entanglements of race and gender. It is easy to...
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Oscar Pistorius: Salvaging the Super Crip Narrative
That prosecutors have charged double-amputee track athlete Oscar Pistorius with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp has made headlines throughout the world. Together with...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
