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Born under the wrong star
The heteronormative and white-dominated nature of hockey teams makes the sport an isolating experience for queer players and players of colour.
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Brainfog
Despite known ties between body checking and concussions, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and repeated head trauma, CTE is still vastly under researched among hockey players.
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Do you dream of joining the assembly line?
Young players and their families are sold the dream of professional hockey, and then exploited as child labour.
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London, 2018
After a Hockey Canada event in London on June 18th, 2018, five players on the World Juniors team sexually assaulted a young woman in their hotel room.
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Metamorphosis
Six watercolour paintings, with digitally hand-lettered text, formatted as a flexagon zine that describes the labour instability that haunts professional women’s hockey.
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Sidney Crosby's Laurel Wreath
As Canada’s national sport, hockey also serves as a symbol for cultural assimilation and insidious nationalist ideology.
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