Caitlin Clark has become the medium in which class, which is to say race, which is to say gender, is felt and fought over in the WNBA. defector.com/who-made-cai...
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I tried to explain why sports media in the gambling era just kinda sucks www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The $10 billion industry transformed how sports media is funded—and written.
worth the price of admission just for the receipts on 90s basketball media ("the young Black son of an NBA player was toddling onto the cover of Sports Illustrated beneath the question, 'WHERE’S DADDY?,'”) flaminghydra.com/who-made-cai...
by Tommy Craggs It was something like five years before she was born that the moral panic over Caitlin Clark began. This was 1997, the year the WNBA debuted. The NBA was bleeding from the teeth to lo...
Caitlin Clark is the modality in which class gets lived in the WNBA flaminghydra.com/issue-110/
Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...
My friend asked me about god for his newsletter, and I answered about communism. healings.substack.com/p/the-healin...
"These protesters, in resisting the manufacture of human disposability ... have a lot more to offer us spiritually than any kind of personal eschatology."
It sure is, by Tommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social
Really good piece on a particularly vivid example of how whiteness works. flaminghydra.com/whos-country/
by Tommy Craggs For an unusually vivid demonstration of how race is made and remade in the United States, we turn to Asa Blanton, nursing student at Indiana State University. “I’m sorry,” she says,...
Nwanevu / Craggs double bill alert flaminghydra.com/issue-66/
Today: Osita Nwanevu, a contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist at The Guardian; and Tommy Craggs, late of “Game Theory” on HBO, and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, G...
Lots of unpaywalled pieces in this, a lovely sampling
TODAY in @thenation.com: the future of media is journalist-run, like yours truly, from our founder @mariabustillos.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It has already been a dire year for the industry, but the shoots of a thriving media ecosystem are here.
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We could reframe the martyrdom of Aaron Bushnell, from @tcraggs22.bsky.socialflaminghydra.com/fires-in-rows/
by Tommy Craggs By the time 19-year-old Park Sung-hee had poured paint thinner over her body and set herself on fire, the meanings of her death were assured. She had done her part in that, explaining...