April 03, 2021
The National Women's Soccer League released its Policy on Transgender Athletes
on March 31, 2021 -- on Trans Day of Visibility. This choice, and the policy
itself, highlight both the problem with "visibility" for its own sake and trans
inclusion policies as currently envisioned by
March 23, 2021
As 2020's Black Lives Matter protests brought greater and wider attention to
matters of systemic racism and injustice around the globe, cultural institutions
reflected more broadly on their policies and practices around race, diversity,
and inclusion. Athletes and sports organizations were often at the forefront
December 19, 2020
2020 will probably long be remembered as a year of reckoning in North American
professional sports, but it will leave behind a question of what that reckoning
was actually about, or if anything came of it. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown
the true cost of