Whether you’re eagerly awaiting A League of Her Own, dropping in for a Saturday with your queer kickball league, watching the WNBA, following football, reading Alison Bechdel’s latest or following the long-held queer tradition of just existing outside — our queer community’s relationship to athletics, sports, and moving our bodies is a rich and complex tapestry that’s been in the making for as long as queer and trans people have existed (so, for, like, all of human history).
For this roundtable, I asked our team to tell me their “sports” stories — what they’ve loved, or hated, what they played or ran or watched or swam or tried — any encounter with athletics that was meaningful, that they wanted to talk about. When I say “sports,” too, I mean it in the broadest possible sense. I mean any athletics. I mean, ‘talk about it if you hate playing sports because that is also an opinion on sports.’
And if you want to sound off on your own sports story in the comments, then I am passing the ball your way! [See what I did there?]
xoxo,
Nicole
