Ailish Saker, University of Oxford It’s now almost five years since ex-professional footballer Andy Woodward first waived his anonymity to speak out about the abuse he suffered as a child. His...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss Philippa Willitts on how cis lesbians are being used to advance transphobic agendas. And subscribe to...
The erasure of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s radical legacy is a transgression of historic proportions. Just a few months before King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, he wrote the...
One of the most anticipated annual television events of the year unfolded in the United States over the weekend. Akin to the Doctor Who Christmas Special in the UK, it is practically a national...
The world will probably best remember World Cup 2010 as the dawn of the Age of the Vuvuzela, but a few other things also happened, most of them soccer-related. This World Cup feels more diverse than...
For all of its nationally based competition, and the feelings of pride (the Netherlands) and shame (France) that the World Cup stirs up, the competition does nothing more than show the flimsiness of...
We rejoin Popular Opinion CourtTV's coverage of the Vuvuzela Trial, already in progress: “… Welcome back to Popular Opinion Court TV's coverage of the Vuvuzela Trial. I'm , the prosecution has...
To the average American sports fan, football is played with two eleven member teams of massive men struggling to score with an oblong ball on a striped 100 by 53 yard field with U-shaped goalposts at...
American readers, please note that the word "football" is used here instead of the word "soccer." The soundtrack of the initial years of my life was often comprised of the din of football chants on...
Like most men, I have very limited insight into the higher neurological functions of the American female. So, as far as discussing the themes that women find appealing in their television and movies,...