Why is it that we associate revealing our bodies with liberation and covering it up with oppression? Sixteen-year-old Je’Nan Hayes of Maryland recently had to sit out a basketball game because she wears a hijab (headscarf), and according to a rarely enforced rule, was required to provide prior documentation that she did so for religious […]
Is our mass desensitization to domestic and sexual violence in sports the new normal? “You know what’s interesting?” my cousin asks over a basket of nachos at our favorite Mexican restaurant. “What?” “I’ve been thinking about all the athletes accused of domestic violence,” he says. It’s September 2014 and the second Ray Rice video—the one of […]
Where are the husky female athletes? I really want to love The Body Issue, ESPN The Magazine’s annual ode to lats, delts, quads, and strategically placed, crotch-covering shadows. It is, on paper, the kind of thing I would love, using beautiful photography to highlight the incredible feats of which the human body is capable. I’ve […]
