History, earned
'Like the clubs I love, I had been riding waves of my own': a story about baseball, Australian Rules Football and being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, by Kylie Maslen
'Like the clubs I love, I had been riding waves of my own': a story about baseball, Australian Rules Football and being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, by Kylie Maslen
'They bury it as deep under the ice as it can go': on belonging to a minority in a sport that hates troublemakers, by Jashvina Shah
Sport is emblematic of what goes on in society as a whole. In this issue of PEN Transmissions, we've looked at it as a method of inclusion - and exclusion. As a method of belonging as well as of extreme alienation.
‘Money, power and politics are inherent to sporting events’: in Bahrain, the Formula One has become a site of protest. Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei tells us why.
'When it came to sports, my mum picked up how to do ten things before she was taught a single one': Han Yujoo reports on growing up with an athlete mother, translated by Janet Hong