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I live on the Internet. I work there, I read there, and I write there. But sometimes, when a topic confounds, I just gotta close my eyes and turn to another medium. God bless radio. Radio insists on brevity. And  [Read More]

Though I’ve not shied away from the topic of violence in these pages, I have found it extremely challenging to write about the violence against lesbians in South Africa, particularly the practice of so-called “corrective” rape. Doubling my apprehension is  [Read More]

As promised, a reconsidered response to the recent OFSAA ruling allowing Ontario girls to play on boys’ teams. In my first post on the topic I offered a typically (for me) lefty case for inclusivity and that was that, or  [Read More]

Hot off the interwebs: “FIFA lifts ban on Iran girls’ football team“, according to the Tehran Times. Though there’s not a lot of information out there yet, it would appear that the Iranian football association submitted a proposal for a  [Read More]

Earlier this week the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) changed its gender equity policy, allowing girls to play on boys’ teams. The decision follows a Human Rights challenge by 17-year-old soccer player (and fellow defender) Courtney Greer. Regular  [Read More]

There are only 60 days (and 01 hours, 53 minutes and 18 seconds at the time of this writing, according to the CBC FIFA countdown clock) to World Cup 2010, and all media are displaying the early symptoms of football  [Read More]

When I began blogging about soccer activism I had a sense of my own story and soccer’s place in it, and I knew about the big projects: Right to Play, Girls in the Game, and so forth. Then I began  [Read More]

Oh sure, I still have that little FIFA affair to look forward to later this summer, but I only just found out about the Street Child World Cup taking place in Durban, South Africa, and today is the final match.  [Read More]

Some of you might be familiar with the story of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, the two men arrested and charged with “unnatural practices between males and gross public indecency” after they had a traditional engagement ceremony in Blantyre’s Chirimba  [Read More]