Sports
Woman, man or a little bit of both? How deciding Caster Semenya’s gender is more complex than you might think
This post was originally published at Mail Online. The family and friends of the teenager who struck gold in the women’s…
By Curated Content
Video: Who Says Sports Aren’t for Women? | The Swaddle
Society finds a million different ways to tell us that sports are not for women but why? In popular culture, it is mostly men who are shown to be excelling at sports. Athletic women are shown as out-of-place ‘tomboys’ and outcasts.
By Curated Content
April 6, 2023
Video: Grown-up Girls
They use sports, technology, arts, and media to express themselves and to build the confidence to exercise choice and negotiate decisions about their bodies, health and life.
April 21, 2023
Un/dress codes in sport
Lack of women’s representation in policy-making institutions has allowed men, often with minimal understanding and empathy, to decide what women in sports can or cannot wear. As a result, these policies have ended up undermining women’s comfort as well as agency.
By Isha Saxena and Tariqa Tandon
April 6, 2023
The Goal Program – Naz Foundation
Bare feet, dry brown hair, shabby clothes, a girl not older than 12 years stared out from her terrace at…
By Jaya Tiwari
September 1, 2014
The Editorial: Sports and Sexuality
Sports and Sexuality: many who hear the two terms together wonder how they are connected and what sexuality has got…
By TARSHI
September 1, 2014
Sports: Hegemonic Masculinities And The Feminist Conundrum
As a teenager, I played tennis with friends, both male and female. Mostly we played with whoever was available to…
By Shweta Krishnan
September 1, 2014
Sports and Sexuality
When I first read the title of the September issue – Sports and Sexuality – I was a little taken…
By Aditi Rajgopal
September 1, 2014
Sport is slowly catching up with transgender realities
“The UFC was appalled by the transphobic comments made by heavyweight Matt Mitrione,” stated the mixed martial arts governing body, which recently suspended…
By Curated Content
September 15, 2014
Sport and LGBTQ+ rights – a fantasy?
The spotlight that the world’s biggest sporting event (arguably) has along with the inherent gender and sexuality bias in sport come together in how sportspersons and athletes are both perceived and perceive themselves in mainstream and social media.
By Tanya Kini
April 6, 2023
Serving Looks: Encounters with the Aesthetics of Tennis
I discovered that tennis is not only about having the privilege to buy a racquet and specialised tennis shoes and access a tennis court. It is also about how one performs and expresses oneself, requiring players to follow a particular aesthetic that enforces gender binaries.
By Chitrangi Kakoti
April 21, 2023
Reel review: Bend it like Beckham
‘All I have to say is sporty spice is the only one without a bloke’ is the warning given by…
By Debanuj DasGupta
September 1, 2014
Playing ball
The gendered assumption that girls are generally disinterested in sports, could be easily refuted by the fact that the principal’s office shelf was adorned with multiple trophies awarded to the girls’ hockey team for winning championships.”
By Bijayalaxmi Biswal and Karen Coelho
April 21, 2023
One-sided Relationships in Sports
The fans invest emotional energy, and time, knowing very well that the players may never know of their existence or reciprocate the same emotions. That, however, does not deter them from feeling and living those emotions.
By Shriya Roy
April 21, 2023
Lost and Found
From today’s vantage point I see that I missed an opportunity to use PT and sports in school as a way to get to know and move my body. This in turn held me back from viewing myself as a sexual being.
By Kajol Hinduja
April 6, 2023