This is brilliant. James Blagden illustrates Dock Ellis's incredible (true) story about pitching on acid. Courtesy of No Mas TV .
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About From a Left Wing
Jennifer Doyle lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California, Riverside. She wrote From a Left Wing from late 2007 until late 2013. Scroll through categories below for writing about gender, the international women's game, Los Angeles fútbol and more. You can read the preface to her most recent book here: Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. Sometime in the near future, this whole blog will be taken down and archived, as she prepares to publish a book anchored in this writing.
The Women's Game
- 2012 Olympics: The Gender of Second
- 2012 Olympics: A Close Reading of Nike Slogan
- 2012 Olympics: All In, All Out: On the Amazing Megan Rapinoe
- 2012 Olympics: Happy Together
- 2012 Olympics: On NBC's Gymnastics Coverage
- 2012 Olympics: Brazil & Team GB at Wembley
- 2012 Olympics: A Punch in the Face
- 2012 Olympics: Solo Thoughtz
- 2012 Olympics: A Note on South Africa
- 2012 Olympics: "Cou cou" is French for "hey girl."
- Thoughts on Eude Simelane's Murder
- 2011 World Cup: How I Became Special to Fox
- 2011 World Cup: Looking Back on USWNT Run
- 2011 World Cup: Reflecting on the Final
- 2011 World Cup: USWNT beat France
- 2011 World Cup: England and France Play Epic Match
- US Soccer Fans: Actually, You Are Quite Divisible
- The Depression of a Super Falcons Fan (Homophobia and the World Cup)
- Nike tells girls watching the 2010 World Cup: You don't count.
- Marta. Again.
- Good Intentions; WPS as Cause and as Business
- FIFA Makes Things Worse (Iran & the Olympics)
- FIFA makes its islamophobia official
- 2008 Olympic Women's Soccer: Reflections on the Super Falcon's (Nigeria) Performance
- 2008 Olympic Women's Soccer Preview: Brazil in Beijing, Great Britain at Home
- 2008 Olympic Women's Soccer (Japan, Germany, Brazil)
- 2008 Olympic Women's Soccer (Day One)
- 2008 Olympic Women's Semifinal (Brazil Levels Germany)
- 2008 Olympic Women's Final
Hors Jeu: My Football Writing Elsewhere
- Recovering from Football's Divorce (Fox Soccer)
- Where is Spain? (Fox Soccer)
- FIFA treats women's game as a burden (Fox Soccer)
- Soccer, Art, Desire (World Literature Today)
- ESPN Makes a Mare's Nest of Women's Sports (Guardian)
- Football's Stand Against Sexual Violence & Homophobia (Guardian)
- "Art Versus Sport": Managing Desire & the Queer Sport Spectacle (X-TRA)
- Fever Pitch: Art & Football (Frieze Magazine)
- A World Cup Dream Revives India's Women's Team (NYT)
- Municipal de Fútbol (Book)
Los Angeles Fútbol
- Soccer in the City of Angels, Part 1: Usage Agreements
- Soccer in the City of Angels, Part 2: You Don't Belong Here
- Soccer in the City of Angeles, Part 3: The Runaway Referee
- Soccer in the City of Angels, Part 5: The Handsome Sailor
- Soccer in the City of Angels, Part 4: At Home with Being Out of Place
- Soccer in the City of Angeles, Part 6: Field Insecurity
- If You Speak Spanish, You Like Your Parks for Playing Soccer & Drinking Champagne
- Night Games: Playing in Los Angeles After Dark
- Police Playing the Policed: On Having the LAPD in our League
- Soccer in the City of Angels, Introduction
- Starved fans pack Rose Bowl for pointless match and love it!
- What's Going on with MacArthur Park?
More on Gender and Sexuality in the Game
- A Tree Falls in a Forest: Watching Women's Football
- David Beckham: Lesbian Icon
- FIFA Make Its Islamophobia Official (and bans headscarves)
- Follow-up on headscarf ban
- Girlfight's Foxy Boxing: Queerest Straight Romance on Film?
- Girlie 'S'Gelane' Nkosi, Simelane's teammate, murdered.
- I Guess Puma Didn't Get the Skort Memo
- Las Futbolistas: Great Grandma on the left wing
- Let's ask the FA to come out of the closet
- Modern Minstrels: Sexist Jokes about Women Athletes
- New Mexico/BYU "Bitchslap"
- On the Murder of Eude Simelane
- Rudo y Cursi: Homosocial/Homoerotics of a Buddy Movie
- Sexism Hurts: ACL Injuries & Women Athletes
- Soccer Monogomy: Why Don't Women Play Pick Up?
- What do we mean when we talk about homophobia and football?
- Why Police the Border between Women's & Men's Sports?
Fútbol Culture: Art, Film, Music
- "Looking for Eric": A Review
- "Rudo y Cursi": A Review
- "The Damned UTD": A Review
- Beautiful Losers: From One Bird to Another
- Confidence Games: Thoughts on Player Bios, Afterthoughts on 'Looking for Eric'
- The Battle Hymm of White Heart Lane
- The Interior Life of the Substitute (on V. Dhorasoo's "The Substitute")
- Yrsa Roca Fannberg Paints Barça
Love Letters, Rants & Manifestos
- Beautiful Losers: From One Bird to Another
- Defensive Thoughts
- Falling Down
- Feeling It: Football & Sentimentality
- I want a feminist anti-homophobic WPS & a more progressive, anti-nationalist/pro-migrant MLS
- Left Back Forward
- Profligacy, Parsimony, Politics (Reflections on the Super Falcons' Performance)
- The Interior Life of the Substitute
The People's Game - KPFK 90.7FM
Recommended Reading
- 100% Soccer (Nick Green)
- A Football Report
- A More Splendid Life
- All White Kit (WPS)
- Cross Conference (women's soccer)
- Foot Smoke
- Futbol No Es Futbol
- It Takes a Team (Great LGBT Sports Blog)
- No More Onion Bags
- One Sport Voice
- Pitch Invasion
- Set Piece Analysts
- So Foot
- The Equalizer (women's soccer coverage)
- The Global Game
- The Offside
- The Rogue (a referee's perspective)
- The Run of Play
- To the Curb
- Treason, Stratagems and Spoils
- Women's Soccer Weekly
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