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,...
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