As Hockey Is For Everyone month comes to a close, I’m reflecting on my experience with the You Can Play Project , Pride Tape, and the Edmonton Oilers’ Pride Night/You Can Play Night. For almost five years now, my academic research has been on attitudes towards homosexuality in boys’ and men’s ice hockey, so I’m…
Chelsea Alvarez passed away tragically in a hiking incident. She was described by those who knew her as “a beautiful soul.” She was 24 years old. She was born in Canada and moved to Italy. She was a daughter. She was a fiancé. She was a mechanical engineer. She was a former restaurant employee. She…
The second I heard Donald Trump refer to grabbing a woman by the genitals as meaningless ‘locker room talk’, I knew I needed to comment. After all, from Michelle Obama and Howard Stern to Family Guy, hasn’t everyone commented on it? Not quite. Correct me if I’m wrong (I really do welcome it), but it…
Aside from catching up on some reading, my summer to-do list also included watching the Canadian television show Letterkenny. I’m late to the party since the show began as a series of YouTube videos in 2013 (see them here in a Hockey Blog in Canada post) and developed into a television series that aired on…
When the list of Summer Reads came out on Hockey and Society, at the very bottom was something I couldn’t not read: a hockey romance novel. Obviously some sort of bastardized Harlequin and Fifty Shades-esque image materialized in my mind. No sooner had that happened, I read Courtney’s note that her search for books about…
As part of a larger project I had been doing on understandings of gender and sexuality and attitudes towards homosexuality in boys’ and men’s ice hockey, I located the publicly available Twitter accounts of approximately 75 male Major Midget AAA ice hockey players in Canada. This worked out to approximately 80% of the population I…
I want to talk about my experience of being a woman who studies masculinity and ice hockey. While I’m out in the field, I don’t think much about my gender identity, but it has become increasingly relevant to what I do. Before delving into my experiences studying Major Junior (ages 16-20) and Major Midget AAA…
I took issue with the NHL Player Survey results published September 15, 2016 by USA Today, specifically those associated with the one question on the survey regarding homosexuality. My masculinity studies meter and research methodology radar started going off more fiercely than the audience noise decibel scale on the big screen in the Bell Centre…
Since 2012, I’ve been a member of a stand-up group of individuals who come together every second year to talk shop and play a game of shinny. We call the meeting The Hockey Conference and it attracts scholars and other like-minded individuals who study and appreciate the sport from sociological, historical, literary, economic, kinesiological, and…
“I never thought of Terry Ryan’s hockey career as memorable until I picked up a copy of his soon-to-be-published book, Tales of a First-Round Nothing: My Life as an NHL Footnote…The book is an honest, poignant and often funny look at the life of a player on the fringe.” – Pat Hickey, Montreal Gazette Tales…
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