Feminism needs women’s sports: a female athlete’s take
Last night’s World Cup final between USA and Japan was incredibly exciting to me, not just for the game itself or for the fact that the US Women’s National Team […]
Tag Archives: sports
Let me help you be sexy while playing sports!
Hey ladies! Do you feel feel unattractive and undesirable when you line up at the local 5K? Does playing basketball make you feel wistful for the other balls you’d really […]
‘The 99ers’ and why it was great to be a girl athlete in the 1990s
Yesterday, when I found myself listening to a bunch of 90s ladycentric rock on YouTube – Veruca Salt, Throwing Muses, Breeders, Lush, etc. – I thought that maybe I was […]
My relationship to sports viewership is complicated
It was the headline that launched a million headdesks. The article in question – “Wives watch sports for husbands’ sake, study reports” – hit the series of tubes, only to […]
Weekend Randomness – March 16
The Chicago Zine Fest has come and gone, and with that I now find myself with plenty of time to regularly update this blog. Seriously, if only we could rearrange […]
The accidental athlete (guest post)
I’ve only recently accepted being “athletic” as part of my identity. As a kid, even though I was encouraged to go out and play, I preferred to stay inside and […]
A short list of lady athletes I admire
This weekend I was watching the Prefontaine Classic on TV and marveling over the speed, power and elegance of the ladies who were competing. There’s something about watching supremely trained, […]
