My academic article “Queering the ‘Male Preserve’” is out now in volume 3 of Georgetown’s public humanities journal Interspaces! It’s a history of women’s sports organizations, focusing on how they carved out spaces for women within very hostile environments, and how they often reacted to these pressures by reinforcing rigid standards of femininity, sexuality, and respectability. But as feminist and queer movements have widened the scope of societal respectability, women’s sports organizations have been able to embrace and serve a much broader spectrum of women and queer athletes’ experiences, as evidenced by the progressive tenor of the WNBA and the PWHL.

Like basically everything I write, it turned out way bigger and longer than I had planned. I’m really proud of it. Give it a read.