The Lucas Girls are helping to reshape our cultural sporting narrative
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.
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International Women’s Day: Our Sporting Heroines
As we look toward International Women’s Day 2020, and aligning with our values at Siren, we wanted to highlight some important sporting icons of our own, as well as those of some women across the sport media landscape. Alison Smirnoff — Melissa Hickey I first met Mel Hickey back in 2015 when I had just …
Still we play on: why the stories we tell about women’s sport matter
On the 28th of September in 1918, on a Saturday afternoon in Ballarat, two football teams ran onto the Eastern Oval. A crowd of thousands lined the boundary fence, jostling for the best vantage point. When the siren sounded and the ball was bounced, the players leapt into action and that familiar organised chaos that …