Beyond The Shoe

A new blog for a new sports writing from the Left. Run by @Privaricate & @marxofblade. Our DMs are open. Email: [email protected]

[Beyond The Shoe @beyond_shoe]

We are back!

A new home for @beyond_shoe

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[Beyond The Shoe @beyond_shoe]

@PCCIpod this trademark just reinforces the point we made in our new piece on the cool captain (afraid of violating the trademark lol). Appreciate your thoughts on this :)

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[Beyond The Shoe @beyond_shoe]

He can't move the scoreboard, but he can still move the balance sheet, and in a league run by oligarchs, winning on the field is just one of the many parameters of victory.

Read our new essay on "Captain Cool", now a trademarked property.

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We are back with a new essay on MS Dhoni, whose prolonged IPL career is both an embodiment and bellwether of cricket's great transformation.

By @cricketaklysm

https://t.co/yl1en7uLJK

[Beyond The Shoe @beyond_shoe]

We are back with a new essay on MS Dhoni, whose prolonged IPL career is both an embodiment and bellwether of cricket's great transformation.

By @cricketaklysm

https://t.co/yl1en7uLJK

[Priyansh @Privaricate]

In this essay for @TheIndiaForum, I make the case that India's bid for the 2036 Olympics is the latest gimmick of the Modi regime. The Ambani-fuelled plan portends disaster for India's economy while further entrenching urban dispossession & displacement.

https://t.co/H8yyFJyAdm

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ICYMI: Our latest essay on how the wrestler Vinesh Phogat broadened the idea of sporting heroism that had rarely ventured beyond the marked boundary of the discipline.

https://t.co/TGGj1FqtFo

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We are breaking our hiatus with a short comment on Vinesh Phogat's campaign in Paris.

Phogat did not get a chance to stand on the podium in Paris but she emerged a winner in a more difficult contest.

https://t.co/TGGj1FqtFo

[Priyansh @Privaricate]

Lula on football and workers' strikes after visiting an overcrowded Morumbi stadium in 1979.

📷Black and White Democracy (2014)

[Priyansh @Privaricate]

This genocide is funded by the USA, the co-host of the men's FIFA World Cup in 2026. Western media and journalists who made a career out of overusing the term sportswashing when the tournament was held in Qatar are presumably ok with this. No media onslaught in sight.

[Beyond The Shoe @beyond_shoe]

For our latest piece, we argue that the ICC’s decision to ban transgender athletes from women’s cricket not only relies on a rather dubious notion of fairness but also lacks a scientific basis.

https://t.co/nrhJ5vM9LV

[Priyansh @Privaricate]

Latest essay for @beyond_shoe where @cricketaklysm and I explore the spurious scientific basis for banning trans women from women's cricket. Fairness is used by the @ICC to further the systemic marginalisation of trans people in the sport.
https://t.co/QuPeR40Vd6

[ND @cricketaklysm]

on why cricket's banning of trans athletes from women's cricket, relying on the dubious nature of fairness, is nothing but plain transphobia. we also question why inclusivity is not just as vital as "fairness", which never really exists in any sports.

[Patna Sweets & Chaat Bhandaar @marxofblade]

for @beyond_shoe on the politics of cricket's decision to ban trans athletes from women's cricket. we argue even though physiological inequivalence needs to be refuted, we should not limit ourselves to the biophysical realm. 1/3

https://t.co/SFNrfKtxY5

[Beyond The Shoe @beyond_shoe]

For our latest piece, we argue that the ICC’s decision to ban transgender athletes from women’s cricket not only relies on a rather dubious notion of fairness but also lacks a scientific basis.

https://t.co/nrhJ5vM9LV

[Patna Sweets & Chaat Bhandaar @marxofblade]

"Modi Stadium is a giant bowl of Hindu-nationalistic expression, the grandeur manifestation of penile fascism, where an autocratic ruler gets afflicted with a strange fetish to associate himself with the biggest, the largest, the grandest, and other superlatives."

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ICYMI: Our latest essay on how cricket is playing an active role in furthering the hyper-nationalist ideas of Modi's government, by @cricketaklysm

https://t.co/50AX5KoorG

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The MCA Stadium has always been a harrowing experience because of its location, but to see so many empty seats in a World Cup match featuring India is surprising.

Here's a timely replug of our piece on why fans come last on the priority of the BCCI.

https://t.co/vvXTMj10QL

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''This is not a World Cup for World Cup's sake, not a source of unfettered amusement, but a means to achieve the vicious ends, a solid pitch for the Modi government, just before the nation goes to the general election in 2024," writes @cricketaklysm
https://t.co/50AX5KoorG

[ND @cricketaklysm]

On Hindutva's Beef With Pakistan In Ahmedabad

I write about how the Modi government is exploiting the pinnacle event of the nation's favourite pastime to fuel their Hindu supremacist ideals as the nation goes to general election in 2024