Currently Reading: Gendered Experience

There aren’t a great number of professional female Muay Thai fighters in the west and fewer still in the USA.  I came across Roxy “Balboa” Richardson just as she was preparing for her retirement fight this...

Either Side of the Ropes Something happens when a woman steps into the ring.  It’s not universal and I cannot speak for everybody,  but I’ve both witnessed this phenomenon on many occasions in other women and...

There are complications to being a woman - or more specifically, having a female body - in a male dominated sport.  As a fighter you are using your body to perform an art and you must...

Over I’m moving to Thailand in less than a month.  I’m so excited, so joyous and inspired by the realization of this dream that I can barely think of anything to be nervous about.  As it...