Ok so you get a mix today: one song that’s notably more famous than what I typically put on here, and one that’s extremely obscure and it’s just a video of me playing it. Pretty opposite each other, but they are both fairly new to my musical enjoyment/repertoire. You’ve probably heard of Elton John. He… Read more Room for New Favorites
The topic I will be addressing is ensuring fairness and inclusivity in women’s sports in relation to transgender women competing in women’s sports. This is a relevant and extremely current topic—conservatives at high levels of state and federal governments throughout the U.S. have been pushing for “save women’s sports” measures that effectively ban all transgender… Read more Issue Brief Overview Post
The pay, publicity, and attention owed to women’s sports in comparison to men’s sports has been a hotly contested debate for decades now, but particularly so over the last five years. Proponents of unequal pay in many sports have raised a number of comparison arguments, including level of competition, amount of work put into competition,… Read more Sexism at the Highest Level: What’s the Point of Professional/Collegiate Sports?
To be perfectly honest, the reason I’m doing a Rolling Stones song today is because I also decided to do a song by Styx and then the title of this blogpost occurred to me. Typically I have a stronger experience or connection to my decision based on the week I’ve been having. Not in this… Read more Styx and Stones
There has been a recent surge in a number of state legislatures to limit or even ban transgender women from participating in school sports. In late January of 2021, according to The Texas Tribune, lawmakers in Texas filed legislation that would prevent transgender girls and women from participating on single-sex sports teams that align with… Read more Ensuring Trans Women’s Rights in Sports
I’m genuinely really happy to be writing entries for this again. Especially with the songs I’ve picked out this week, it should be a really nice way to relax. COVID kinda sucks, wouldn’t you say? For some reason the state of our lives has been hitting me especially hard recently; I spent so long trying… Read more Tranquility
My passion blog will carry on as it was from last semester, with my analyses of favorite songs by favorite artists. My civic interests blog will focus on how gender and sexuality has intersected with sports at various levels throughout history, including the present day.
I believe in reconciliation. My family loves The Simpsons. My dad owns the first twenty-odd seasons of the show on DVD, and accompanied by shows like Friends and Brooklyn 99, The Simpsons make up a large part of the TV we sit down to watch together. I’ve always thought very highly of the show—it’s simultaneously… Read more Draft of This I Believe
I hereby issue this civic declaration of a creation of a blog segment focusing on civic issues.
Firstly, I hope it’s alright that I’m not posting more ideas for my Passion blog; I’m very happy with my current topic of analyzing songs and writing about them, so much so that I might carry this blog on past RCL, and I’m very much looking forward to continuing with it. One idea I have… Read more Ideas for Civic Issues Blog and This I Believe Project