In 2008, we relaunched Derailed as a monthly magazine. Every issue would feature a headline article and then a scattering…
Browsing: Essays
Cahiers du Cyclisme, January 2011 edition Cycling is unique as a mediasport not in that it’s a sport entirely devised by the media,…
This essay is Part Three of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…
This essay is Part Two of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…
This essay is Part One of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…
Part 6: Conclusion (& Bibliography). The case study of erythropoietin in the Tour de France is intriguing precisely because it…
Part Five: The discourses surrounding banned performance-enhancing techniques perpetuate gendered and raced narratives of natural difference. Biological difference is predicated…
Part Four: “Natural” is Discourse. What is coded as a “natural” body is not a natural inevitability at all, but discursively…