Take the W: Bodies
Katie Heindl
Jun 13 2024
Lorie Shaull; Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0. The recent surge in the WNBA’s popularity has had a side effect I didn't anticipate: all this discussion about women’s bodies. ...
A weekly column about women's professional basketball for both longtime fans and the casual observer.
Lorie Shaull; Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0. The recent surge in the WNBA’s popularity has had a side effect I didn't anticipate: all this discussion about women’s bodies. ...
Lorie Shaull; Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0 For years the WNBA’s business plan, in ambition and practice, focused on increasing the league’s visibility. It ...
andace Parker retired in April, on the same day WNBA training camp began. On her Instagram, she shared a sepia-toned photo of herself as a kid, holding a basketball bigger ...
When she was named MVP of that game, the crowd of nearly twenty thousand people booed.
The games have pace, the rivalries have layers, the bravado is unmatched, and the conversations, refreshingly, do not reduce lives and bodies to their income value.