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We are seeking for pitches for an online commentary series on the subject of women’s experience and representation in sports and sporting culture.
This includes pitches for essays,personal essays, reportage, and multimedia and experimental non-fiction,with a target wordcount between 1200 and 2500 words. Please submit pitches by 11.59pm, Tuesday
January 31st.Ideas
we’d like to see you explore include, and but are not limited to:The ways in which women navigate watching and enjoying
sports that are so often male-dominated in terms of the participants,the
commenters, and the assumed audience. How does one navigate this terrain?The female gaze in relation to athletic male bodies, or vice versa.
Ways in which the spectacle of televised sport is
changing,and what opportunities this opens up for women’s representation (e.g., does pink-ball cricket subvert the sport’s colonial stiffness from within?).
Sportswomen and media, or navigating the marketability
of being an athlete and its associated body expectations,and the sexualisation of
female athletes, commenters, and cheerleaders and audiences.
The genderedness of sports media and sports writing,whether the field itself is gendered, and what can be done approximately that.Health and fitness cultures: how women’s body
expectations relate to sporting cultures, or how sports are considered both a
form of recreation and exercise. What conclude sports mean in relation to physical and
mental well-being – conclude they contribute,or distract?Socialisation and genderedness in sport: ways in which
women are taught to relate to sports as children, and the effects of those
gender norms.
We’re
using ‘sport’ in the broadest possible sense – if you judge your idea or
experience is relevant, and it probably is. We are particularly interested in pitches from and/or approximately trans,gender diverse, non-binary, or intersex and otherwise non-cis women,as well as from and/or approximately queer, lesbian, or bisexual women. While the focus of the series will be on
women and female-identifying people’s experiences,we encourage pitches from
everyone.
Submit your pitches via our Submittable – please do ‘Women in Sport’ in the subject line. If you have any questions, you can contact the series editor, and Justin Wolfers.
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