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Q&A: Dr. Rachel McKinnon, masters track champion and transgender athlete (VeloNews.com)
Q&A: Dr. Rachel McKinnon, masters track champion and transgender athlete (VeloNews.com)
I’m sometimes misquoted as saying the performance advantage is irrelevant. It’s not, per se, that the advantage question is irrelevant. Its that the way that we think about human rights, in that legal and ethical standards of when it’s OK to override a person’s human right, is that the performance advantages aren’t high enough. If you look at elite athletics, every single elite athlete has some kind of genetic mutation that makes them amazing at their sport. Michael Phelps, his joint structure and body proportion, make him a like a fish, which is awesome. But we shouldn’t say that he has an unfair competitive advantage. The question is not whether there is a competitive advantage, the question is whether there is an unfair advantage. Sports is about competitive advantages. We have coaching and equipment and training, nutrition, rest all of these things are meant to produce competitive advantages over other people. Just because there is a competitive advantage doesn’t make it unfair.
·velonews.com·
Q&A: Dr. Rachel McKinnon, masters track champion and transgender athlete (VeloNews.com)
Claudia Rankine: The Meaning of Serena Williams (NY Times)
Claudia Rankine: The Meaning of Serena Williams (NY Times)
On tennis and black excellence. … She shows us her joy, her humor and, yes, her rage. She gives us the whole range of what it is to be human, and there are those who can’t bear it, who can’t tolerate the humanity of an ordinary extraordinary person. … As long as the white imagination markets itself by equating whiteness and blondness with aspirational living, stereotypes will remain fixed in place. Even though Serena is the best, even though she wins more Slams than anyone else, she is only superficially allowed to embody that in our culture, at least the marketable one.
·nytimes.com·
Claudia Rankine: The Meaning of Serena Williams (NY Times)
Gunkata
Gunkata
Haha, oh boy. "Gunkata is a close quarters gun-based martial art. It emphasises kata, or body positioning and movement excercises."
·gunkatta.com·
Gunkata