Images collected from The Guardian and The Nation.

Sports & Politics in the U.S.

Monday, April 8, 2019 to Friday, April 12, 2019

Theme week organized by

Dafna KaufmanGeorgia State University

"Brand Ambassadors": Cheerleaders, Gendered Labor, and Institutional Crisis in the NFL

By Brett Siegel

Monday, April 8, 2019

1 comment

Defamiliarizing Concussions

By Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Invisible Man: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's Forgotten Protest

By Dafna Kaufman

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

How The Treatment of Women Sportscasters Foretold The Rise of Trumpism

By Guy Harrison

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sports, Politics, and the #MeToo Movement

By Kathleen Bachynski

Friday, April 12, 2019

Contributors

Brett Siegel

Doctoral Student & Assistant InstructorThe University of Texas at Austin

Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Lecturing FellowDuke University

Dafna Kaufman

Student MA Film Studies Georgia State University

Guy Harrison

Assistant Professor, Telecommunication StudiesYoungstown State University

Recent comments

Re: Playing with the Television: VCR Games

I remember Go Fetch It

By Dee Harvey

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 10:31

Which was a board game you played using an audio tape. It was a kid's game with a much cleaner and more sanitised look & feel to the branding. My friends and I (who were really too old for Go Fetch It at 11 & 12) used to record our own...
Re: Fetishizing Cognitive Difference in The Big Bang Theory and Atypical

This is a great insight and I

By Laura Purcell

Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 18:18

This is a great insight and I appreciate your post! While representation matters, when it is always funneled through an abled gaze, what are viewers learning? And when characters like Sheldon, who has had huge reach due to the popularity of the...
Re: YouTube activism or YouTube art?

More on ContraPoints, 'YouTube Art', etc...

By James MacDowell

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 18:00

Since writing this, I've made a video essay on these themes, 'Notes on YouTube Art (Part 1): A YouTube Artworld?' It dives far deeper into the ideas explored here - as well as both Zedig's and ContraPoints' videos - and begins to try to define '...
Re: Just another celebrity confessional? famous faces, recognisable voices and mental health in the media

defining "help"

By Ted Gournelos

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 12:39

I would agree that we need a lot more attention and funding for the treatment of mental health disorders, but I wonder if it's an either/or situation or a both/and situation here. If people with disorders don't seek treatment or delay treatment, or...
Re: TBI Awareness Memes: Hyper-individualism, overcoming adversity, and the neoliberal capitalist project

yes, to the trouble with normal

By Cheryl Green

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 03:04

Thank you, Ted! There are soooo many troubles with "normal." Jijian Voronka has a wonderful article called "Storytelling beyond the psychiatric gaze: Resisting resilience and recovery narratives" in the most recent edition of Canadian Journal...