It’s a topic that regularly rises back to the surface, returning contributor Emily Patterson details the complex relationship women in sport have with social media. Social media provides an opportunity for sportswomen to engage in self-representation, by presenting images and narratives of their choosing. However, this same exposure also allows members of the public to …
Emerging Sports Writer Program participant Sienna Nobile on the challenges faced by women and girls playing football in regional Australia and why investment is so important. As a six-year-old girl growing up in South Gippsland, watching my Papa coach his U/16s girls football team was a treat. The smell of the damp grass gave me …
Emerging Sports Writer Program participant Lauren McIntosh shares the unusual, yet valid avenue through which she was exposed to, and grew to love, women’s sport. Do you remember the first time you laced up your ballet slippers? Passed a netball? Witnessed someone execute that impossible kick? For me I remember all three. From being influenced …
Linda Pearce looks at a new education program from the AIS, the Female Performance and Health Initiative that addresses how periods and pregnancy impact performance. It started with a confession. A light-hearted one. Sitting with Olympic diver Anabelle Smith at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, this 35-year veteran of sportswriting admitted to a personal …
The Lucas Girls: A Match to Remember demonstrates how telling the history of women’s sport can help to positively and accurately reshape our cultural narrative.