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Gabriel Allen

@gabrielallen.bsky.social

Author of Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport: https://a.co/d/3Qz99a2

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Julie Kliegman@juliekliegman.com · 3w ago

FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (August 2026) 🙂

Finding Renée Richards by Julie Kliegman | Astoria Bookshop

"Not to be missed." —Stephanie Howes, Booklist (starred review)A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2026The candid, definitive biography of professional tennis’s first openly transgender player, ...

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LizKatSportsLes@lizkatsportsles.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm kinda fascinated by the story of Renée Richards and, more importantly, how we don't talk about her at all. Do y'all know that name at all?

Tommy Craggs@tcraggs22.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wrote this a couple years ago about Caitlin Clark, whose fame had already become, to borrow a phrase, the modality in which class and race and gender get lived in the WNBA. defector.com/who-made-cai...

Yet the league partisans are correct in their impulse to identify something normal, something structural to the WNBA working itself out here. What's happening is a kind of class polarization among the players. Clark’s celebrity is now the terrain on which her colleagues have mounted a resistance to the league’s respectability regime—to the very idea of the Good White Girl, which was always above all a means of differentiating and therefore controlling the workforce, the WNBA’s answer to the NBA’s Greedy Thug. This goes some way toward explaining, for instance, the loose campaign afoot in the media and even among her fellow players to pressure Clark into disavowing the bad parts of her fandom. It is an effort to enlist her in the project of refusing, as Paige Bueckers did a couple years ago, the shitty dividend paid out to the women who conform to Good White Girlhood.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump’s GOP is trying to remake the wnba over into wwe’s image. Racist stereotypes, symbolic race wars, and everyday eugenics. it’s a sign of how popular the sport is and how captured everything is. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Gabriel Allen@gabrielallen.bsky.social · 4w ago

23 national championships. More US Open titles than any player in history. Yet most people have never heard of Ora Washington. As a working-class Black woman in the early 1900s, Washington dominated both 🎾 & 🏀 while working full-time as a laborer for wealthy white families.

Julie Kliegman@juliekliegman.com · last mo.

FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS (August 2026)

Finding Renée Richards by Julie Kliegman | Astoria Bookshop

"Not to be missed." —Stephanie Howes, Booklist (starred review)A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2026The candid, definitive biography of professional tennis’s first openly transgender player, ...

astoriabookshop.com

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · last mo.

Bluesky is a wonderful website if you want more good book recommendations than you could possibly handle

Gabriel Allen@gabrielallen.bsky.social · last mo.

Tennis community: Are you content going along with rules and traditions that are rooted in classism, racism and sexism? If not, find out what we can do to improve the game and culture of the sport: a.co/d/0iqPRYL6

Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport

Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport [Allen, Gabriel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.

Hell yes it is! IN FACT: drop some book recs in the thread, y'all. The more recently published, the better. Authors, don't be afraid to tell people about your latest book, either. In fact, you totally should. Do it! Do it now!

Gabriel Allen@gabrielallen.bsky.social · last mo.

Tennis community: Are you content going along with rules and traditions that are rooted in classism, racism and sexism? If not, find out what we can do to improve the game and culture of the sport: a.co/d/0iqPRYL6

Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport

Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport [Allen, Gabriel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport

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Gabriel Allen@gabrielallen.bsky.social · last mo.

With Wimbledon beginning, it’s a perfect time to begin reading Tennis Tensions. It's my great hope that the tennis community will rally together to replace rules & traditions rooted in classism, racism & sexism with new rules & traditions that embrace equity, equality & inclusion. a.co/d/017zulsW

Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport

Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport [Allen, Gabriel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tennis Tensions: Class, Race and Gender in the Evolution of the Sport

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The Second Serve@the2ndserve.bsky.social · last mo.

Tennis lifer @gabrielallen.bsky.social wholeheartedly believes it’s high time his beloved sport rids itself of its colonizer roots by ditching the love-deuce-ad scoring system that separates it from every other sport on earth. via @pjsauer.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/adam-green-g...

Gabriel Allen@gabrielallen.bsky.social · last mo.

With Wimbledon beginning, it’s a perfect time to begin reading Tennis Tensions. It's my great hope that the tennis community will rally together to replace rules & traditions rooted in classism, racism & sexism with new rules & traditions that embrace equity, equality & inclusion. a.co/d/017zulsW

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Pete Croatto@petecroatto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bad news: The NBA season is over. Good news: If you need a tide-me-over before next season's tip-off, please consider getting my book from your local library or buying it from your favorite independent bookstore. It's the best basketball book (I've) ever written.

From Hang Time to Prime Time

Perfect for fans of Moneyball and The Book of Basketball, this vivid, thoroughly entertaining, and well-researched book explores the NBA’s surge in...

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Carole Bouchard@carolebouchard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Akasha Urhobo, 19, is ready to disrupt the WTA game: “I always wanted to be a net player.“ I’ve also talked to Kasatkina, trying to get back on track: “I don’t want to think I have to do this or that because it hits u hard if u didn’t achieve the goal.“ tennissweetspot.substack.com/p/born-this-...

Born This Tennis Way

Akasha Urhobo, 19, is ready to disrupt the WTA game by bringing back the net play. She also joins a wave of teenagers eager to already make their mark.

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