The Fit is a Feminist Issue blog team has a group page on Facebook where we share blog ideas, #blogfodder. When people ask how we manage to post every day, that’s part of the story. Team + #blogfodder. But not all the #blogfodder gets blogged about and so here are this week’s stories that didn’t make it into the blog as their own individual posts.
🏃♀️Are athletes’ injuries connected to their menstrual cycle?
CBC Sports examines how hormonal changes can lead to potentially career-altering injuries.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6758996
🤼♀️ AI and Fake Feminist News
I share news on our Facebook page, as well as here, but the fact-checking part of that is getting tiresome. Here’s a good news story that’s been making the rounds since November. It’s the kind of story I love to share. The only problem is that it’s not true. You can’t find anything about Margaret Johnson, other than this story.
I’m checking more often these days after I shared the AI pic of the older women skateboarding in India.
Here’s an explanation of what’s going on.
🏃🏾♀️ Should women athletes have to wear skorts?
Irish camogie players don shorts in protest against skorts diktat
“They are called skorts – a portmanteau of shorts and skirts – and the Irish camogie players who are obliged to wear them have had enough.
Players from Dublin and Kilkenny instead wore forbidden shorts before a provincial game on Saturday, in a coordinated protest that has won support from politicians and commentators who say the dress rules for the female-only sport are archaic.
The players say skorts are uncomfortable and deter girls and women from taking up camogie, a female version of the Gaelic game of hurling, but the sport’s ruling body insists upon the garment, which is considered more feminine than shorts.”
🚴🏿♀️Canadian newcomer to cycling smashes world record
“Five and a half days, 2,700km, brutal headwinds, tough hills, sleep deprivation, a copious supply of Mars Bars, and (bizarrely) a Highlands-traumatising pole dance from a cameraman later – and Dr Sarah Ruggins has done it. The Canadian, a relative newcomer to cycling who first started riding a bike just three years ago after losing her ability to walk as a teenager due to a debilitating illness, has smashed the outright world record for cycling the length of Britain and back, beating James MacDonald’s previous benchmark for the epic 2,700km ride.”
🏒 Hockey and Hijabs
Hockey and hijabs: New to Canada and the sport, these girls have found their game
