Nine fingers.
If you look hard enough, you can see them.
Behind the glass, hidden, silenced, erased.
They don’t play tennis. They don’t have fans, podcasts, sponsors or titles. But they’re human.
Invisible, hope slips away again.
Nine fingers. For nine years.
Let them go.
A quiet reminder that when Justice Kenneth Hayne, head of royal commission into banking misconduct, refused to smile or even shake the hand of the Treasurer during a photo op in 2019, it was not considered the stuff of national calamity.
@TamePunk is making a similar point.
Huge kudos to @AlexBlackwell2 for being brave enough to discuss these issues publicly. The uncomfortable truth is that there is still a particular type of female cricketer who the boards are keener to promote, and it is all centred on the male gaze.
https://t.co/hfIj60O9YQ
Ch 7 news: The AFL is dealing with massive Covid disruption...TO THE AFL PRESEASON.
No mention of the disruptions to the AFLW actual premiership season. Seriously. Head explodes.
I want to share with you what this jumper, this round, and this competition mean to me, a very privileged white bisexual trans man. So here's a long thread:
#AFLWPride /1