While the men’s game in South Asia still sells itself on the dubious promise that eleven khaki-shorted millionaires might someday cure a nation’s existential dread, the women have been quietly staging their own, far less lucrative revolutions. On a humid Monday in Dhaka, Bangladesh Women met Sri Lanka Women in the sort of fixture that…
When the BBC announced in July 2017 that Jodie Whittaker would be the thirteenth Doctor, the collective gasp could be heard from Cardiff to Kuala Lumpur. Suddenly a franchise older than most African constitutions had decided that a two-hearted alien who routinely cheats death could, in fact, be a woman. International Twitter did what it…
The Lioness Roars, Mostly into a Void A global dispatch on what happens when the world’s fiercest predator meets the planet’s most inventive PR department: humanity. There is, apparently, a global shortage of lionesses these days. Not the tawny, four-legged kind—those are still being shot, poisoned, or trafficked at the brisk clip of one every…
Red Wings: The Global Passport Nobody Asked For By Henrietta “Hank” Mortensen, Senior Correspondent, Somewhere Over International Waters The first time I heard the phrase “earning your red wings,” I was in a cramped Nairobi hostel listening to a Canadian backpacker brag between gulps of warm Tusker. He spoke the words like a battlefield commendation,…
