for as much as the conversation is always “ugh the left is mad caitlin won’t be an SJW” that really isn’t it at all. the right decided to use her as a cudgel against a sport with a lot of black and queer athletes and the left asked her to say that’s bad.

kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar)@booksandbows.bsky.social · 3h ago

the clark stuff is odd bc it isn’t really the left who politicized her. it was the right holding her up as an excuse to be racist to angel reese and to “own” the wnba by having a white straight woman come in and be the talk of the town. they’re the ones who made her a culture war pawn.

I’m gonna be honest with you all, if “AI” has done anything, it’s changed my perspective insofar as it makes me respect people less in general. A lot less. It has revealed an uncountable number of losers who will shamelessly lie, cheat and steal, and still never amount to anything.

Loomin' Onion™@buckrawheat.bsky.social · 2w ago

zero sense of shame. these people live among us, somehow.

It’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 20h ago

I need people to understand that for the last half decade that there’s been an ecosystem of trans folks in sports media who have worked unpaid to serve as experts for context, sources and educators on what it’s like for trans athletes, in hopes of potential bylines and contacts. That’s dried up.

"It’s not a different opinion. It’s straight up bigotry ... that we wouldn’t accept or hand wave away if it were targeted towards any other group." Every cis person who follows me for WNBA content better read this. Pay for a sub, you owe the trans community that much & Frankie is a hell of a writer

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 13h ago

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

If you don't love this team, you're lying #gsv #goldenstatevalkyries #valkyries

Frankly, if *anyone* has the right to speak up about this, it's porn creators, who are often both directly under the barrel of -- and made scapegoats for -- the kinds of censorship and surveillance governments want to do anyway

Hypno-Scream (Comms Open)❤️🩷💜@hypnoscream.bsky.social · last mo.

Saw a post saying "I don't want NSFW accounts to talk about voting, just let me jack off" Buddy, NSFW artists and sex workers are being constantly attacked by a government of nonces trying to distract from their own crimes by pinning the blame on porn. They have the right to speak up about this.

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

Whomst among us?

Serial Experiments Abigail@popeguilty.bsky.social · 13h ago

Zoe is watching T2 for the first time and having the normal experience

"It’s not a different opinion. It’s straight up bigotry ... that we wouldn’t accept or hand wave away if it were targeted towards any other group." Every cis person who follows me for WNBA content better read this. Pay for a sub, you owe the trans community that much & Frankie is a hell of a writer

Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 13h ago

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

Two quarters is sometimes all the Valkyries need

I guess the question is whether the arm connected first or the hand

She got all ball

kinda feels like VB is gonna have to play out the rest of this game, Chen has the yips like fuck

STOP! TURNING! THE! BALL! OVER!

oh shit Conde got lucky

THAT is a foul, but Neese tackling VB in the first half wasn't????

bad enough you're going with this ugly court your fans almost universally hate but don't gaslight us while you're doing it

Valerie Valkyrie@beezygrey.bsky.social · 14h ago

they keep lying about other teams not having custom courts for some reason

they keep lying about other teams not having custom courts for some reason

that's a flagrant for sure which means the refs will say it wasn't a foul at all....

KT with a vintage all-star season performance here tonight

Proud of the Valks for getting the defense back together. Gotta stop turning it over if we wanna win though!

why won't the refs call things the same on both sides????

STOP TURNING THE BALL OVER

Sometimes you just need your leaders to come in and enforce their wills

Feels like the Tempo came ready this time and the Valks are just going through the motions mostly

Well, two again, but at least it's the right two. Just gotta make sure we don't get down by too many.

Valerie Valkyrie@beezygrey.bsky.social · 15h ago

So much for four quarters. But let's hope for three at least.

Valks looking lost rn

THAT WAS SO HOT

KAITLYN

Bless you, Tip.