Calling b.s. on the women’s sport revolution and how boobs showed us science is failing women.
What I’m reading this week about #WomenInSport
All this talk about us being in a golden age of women’s sport, a revolution… well, it’s kinda bullshit. This has all happened before and it will all happen again if we don’t do something build on our ‘gains’. “What does the presence of this celebratory discourse mean (and do) for gender, sport and the possibility for social change?”
“Although capturing the ‘right’ feminine sporting ‘look’ is not of itself a job requirement for being a sportswoman, investigating how aesthetic labour is undertaken by elite athletes can provide a clearer picture of how the athletic labour of femininity governs modes of female athletic self-expression online.”
Monash University partners with Collingwood FC to create Australia’s leading sports research hub. Let’s hope they specifically address the gap in sport research on female bodies because currently, sports science is failing women and we all saw how a viral image of breasts exposed science’s obsession with the male body.
This week it was Lesbian Visibility Day. Six (white) women working in sports media share their takes on the awareness day, role models, and the advice they would give their younger selves. If anyone has seen any similar stories from lesbians of colour working in sport, please send my way so I can read and share.
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