It’s embarrassing that players themselves need to keep taking to social media to point out the ways the league’s marketing is failing the athletes. ICYMI, my latest newsletter, on the lack of gender diversity in the WNBA's new Skims campaign:

the wnba hasn't learned anything about marketing its athletes

the new skims campaign is a betrayal of the league's gender diversity

Hahahahaha I once saw a 25-year-old on TikTok describe herself as a “late in life lesbian” and I was like …babe no

In this week’s edition of “Haterade,” I shouted out woso queers: “the contrast between how general sapphics have received the Sophia Bush [coming out] essay versus how sports sapphics have received the Bush essay is, frankly, hilarious.”

Haterade: don't cross woso queers

plus: hot basketball couples, martha stewart, & sports MILFs

Check out @thefrankiedlc.bsky.social@thenation.com on how swimming got so transphobic:

How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic

Almost no other sport is as hostile to trans athletes—and that's because its culture created the perfect conditions for transphobia to take root.

Talked to Sue Bird about her new documentary, what she & Megan work on in couples’ counseling, gay sex & respectability politics, & why being a point guard is the perfect role for a Libra.

It All Started With Sue Bird

The WNBA legend on her new documentary, In the Clutch, and why the work never really stops, even during retirement

My latest, for MSNBC: Why Trump has found such a loyal male audience in the world of mixed martial arts

Opinion | Why Trump has found such a receptive male audience in the world of MMA

The common thread here is insecurity, specifically the insecurity of men anxious about their place in a changing world.

I’ve got a live thread open for the NCAA women’s champion game today! Come hang out with us:

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ughhhhh fine I have grudgingly written a partial defense of jojo siwa’s brand of cringe

saturday culture links & a defense (sort of) of jojo siwa

look what you made me do

Come chat with us about the women’s Final Four! It’s hoppin’ in the live thread: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/c91b8a33-da7c-47bb-a315-be01ee8b02ab?r=5tej&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=share

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