Episode Details

When I was a kid, I used to sit on the bonnet of an HR Holden and watch my dad play country footy.

I thought I understood the game.

But years later I realised something strange: I had only ever been watching half of it.

In this episode of The C-Word, I look at what happens when women step into sporting spaces that were never originally built for them.

From ill-fitting guernseys and dodgy change rooms to online abuse aimed at women players, commentators and umpires, women’s sport still provokes reactions that go well beyond the game itself.

Along the way we talk about:

• why women’s sport suddenly grows when it becomes visible

• the history of women being pushed out of football despite drawing huge crowds

• why gay women seem to find space in sport while gay men still struggle to come out in the AFL

• and why being a woman in sport can sometimes feel like being a vegan handed a chicken schnitzel.

Technically you’ve been served dinner.

It’s just not made for you.

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note ~
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
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Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
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