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 I just want chara 2 be my Father | sophie | 22 | malaysia | main @ pontianaks

[tapejob]

god…the serotonin i get when goalies tuck their heads into their jerseys and peek out from their chest protectors? inject that directly into my veins

[spinoramas]

kevin hayes: *has a breakdown on the bench*

[canesbian]

countless former players: dealing with more difficulty in life from broken bones, concussions, and the painkiller and other addictions that result

nhl: posts a fcking injury fancam

[unfittoplay]

fuck hockey culture (x)

[jasondickinsons]

Who in the stars lb sent this in because this is our eternal mood 😂

[bjugstad27]

on racism in hockey

Readings:

Hockey is not for Everyone - Akim Aliu

Silence is Violence - Mark Fraser  

Joel Ward on What the Hockey Diversity Alliance Can Accomplish - Mike Johnston 

Sarah Nurse Urges Fellow Canadians Not to Suppress Our Black History - Thomas Ketko 

NHL Exec. Kim Davis on Racism in Hockey and Growing the Game - Jerry Bembry 

NHL Needs Action, Not Words, on Racial Injustice - Greg Wyshynski

Kevin Weekes: NHL Needs to Get Real About Inequality - Emily Kaplan

For NHL, the Battle to Eradicate Racism in the Sport Continues -Helene Elliot 

Anthony Duclair’s Protest, Racism in Minor Hockey, and More - Brandon Maki

Jospeh Opens Up About Racism, Protests 

‘What the Hell are You Doing Here?’ A Conversation With Black Hockey Fans - Mark Lazerus 

Evander Kane on White NHLers Addressing Racism: We Need ‘Strength in Numbers’ - Ryan S Clark 

Why White NHLers are Calling out Racism Now: ‘Hit Me So Deep That I Was Angry’ - Ryan S Clark 

We Need to be Loud, We need to be Unflinching - Erik Gudbranson

‘It Can’t Just be Their Fight’: Why Blake Wheeler is Speaking out Against Racism - Murat Ates 

Rethinking Canada Through Indigenous Hockey - McKegney and Auksi

Videos: 

How Racism in Hockey Affects Indigenous Communities 

How Racism Affects Hockey Culture 

Iginla on Racism in Hockey

A Roundtable on Racism with NHL Players  

Black Ice: African-Canadians and Hockey  

Soul on Ice: Past, Present, and Future  

Akim Aliu Sits Down For A One-On-One With Ron MacLean 

Ryan Reaves Talks About Hockey in the Black Community 

Is Hockey Having a Moment of Reckoning? 

The Conversation: Improving Representation And Shedding Bias In Hockey & The NHL 

[cjjackson70]

Articles:

Hockey Is For Everyone, Or Is It? - Nicole Giordano with R. Renee Hess

As hockey confronts its racism problem, why have so many NHL players remained silent? - Hemal Jhaveri

Everything wrong with the New York Islanders statement on George Floyd - Hemal Jhaveri

Nihilism and White Bliss in America’s Most Livable City; On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell - Casey Taylor

Here’s what happens when you proclaim “Black Lives Matter” in the whitest sport in America - Rebecca Renee Hess

Only the puck was black: a story of race and the NHL - Gilman W. Whiting

The significance of a Stanley Cup champion named Devante - Clinton Yates

Current and former NHLers are calling for greater transparency as the GTHL keeps secret its data on penalties called for discriminatory slurs - Rick Westhead

NHL20 has a racism problem, and EA needs to address it -  Jeff Veillette

Kevin Weekes: NHL needs to get real about racial inequality - Emily Kaplan

BLACK HOCKEY ROUNDTABLE: TALKING RACISM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE SPORT with David Amber, Blake Bolden, Grant Fuhr, Kwame Mason, and Sarah Nurse - Matt Larkin

Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey

‘We are gathered. We are here.’ Welcome to Black Girl Hockey Club - Kim Brunhuber

Books: 

Black Ice: The Val James Story - Valmore James & John Gallagher

Videos:

A critical look at social justice in women’s hockey, past, present, & future - Erica L. Ayala 

PART ONE: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

PART TWO: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

New episode of Social Justice in Women’s Hockey by Erica L. Ayala premieres Wednesday, June 9, 2020 at 8:30 pm ET with Saroya Tinker discusses “white gaze” and racism in Canada

A BGHC Community Event: Renee Hess and Saroya Tinker talk race, hockey and BLM

Podcasts:

Redvolution Rampage: The Color of Hockey with Hockey Coach Derrick Henderson, Ayo Adeniye, Malcolm Hayes, and Darius Kirksey

Bardown Beauties: #Sticktosports - Guest Erica L. Ayala

The End of Sport: Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri

TXHT: A Conversation with Saroya Tinker

Japers’ Rink Radio: Hockey Must Do Better with Marie Smith & Chris Watkins

Further Education & Involvement: 

Anti-Racism in Sports Resources Google Doc

FOLLOW BLACK GIRL HOCKEY CLUB

[addc10]

On this day 4 years ago, Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the first time in protest of racial injustice. Today, sports across 4 leagues halted.

“We are expected to play at a high level, give maximum effort and hold each other accountable. We hold ourselves to that standard, and in this moment, we are demanding the same from our lawmakers and law enforcement.” [Milwaukee Bucks’s Players Statement]

#NBAboycott #MLBboycott #WNBAboycott #MLSboycott #✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[gabelandeskog]

@Sportsnet: “The statement they’ve made today is something that’s going to last. These two days aren’t going to fix anything, but the conversations and the statement that has been made is very powerful, especially coming from this league.” - Ryan Reaves

[habsforever]

[myfangirlisraeging]

To add to this:

[hockeylvr42]

I’m so glad the NHL has embraced the bubble

[hockeylvr42]

THE TRILOGY

[mitchmarner]

White players should be kneeling. Ryan Reaves almost didn’t kneel because he didn’t want to make white teammates who might have a problem with it uncomfortable, not to mention the Knights owner who once said anyone who kneels isn’t playing. Considering Reaves has been scratched in the past, his knee has a very high liklihood to impact his career. If you, like me, are white, we should focus on Ryan and the bravery it took for him to take a knee knowing a.) the potential fallout from the racists in this sport and the bigoted team owner and b.) that so many of his teammates would refuse to kneel with him. Amplify his voice. There are so few BIPOC in this league, and they’re taking on a burden that shouldn’t be theirs to speak out and experiencing more racism as a result. Using this opportunity to make it about the white players who should’ve done this bare minimum action from the start comes off incredibly weird.

[rodarte]

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[mitchmarner]

The Seattle Kraken... holy shit at these logos and the color scheme

[hazel3017]

I straight up love this

[nopatyespat]

best of Hotel X tweets that sent me to an early grave this morning. bonus:

[brockymcginn]

but sure yeah let's do the whole "play hockey during a global pandemic" thing again

[anzekopistar]

I hate to break it to the white people who are all “wow I can’t believe there’s still racism in hockey. That’s bad” in response to Akim Aliu’s Players Tribune article, but there’s visibly been racism in the NHL the entire time, you’ve just been privileged enough to not notice it

[anzekopistar]

To elaborate on this: how many minority NHL players can you name? Is there a minority player on your favorite team? 

Look at everything that white men in hockey media (especially Don Cherry) have said about PK Subban and how he gets criticized more than any white player. Pay attention to the fact that he gets boo’d far more often in random away games because the fans “don’t like him, but it has nothing to do with his race”

Look at how young black men like Josh Ho-Sang and Anthony Duclair get labeled as having “attitude problems” as a justification for why they aren’t getting chances in the NHL

Auston Matthews got chosen every single time the Leafs got “randomly” drug tested his rookie year

JT Brown received death threats when he silently raised his fist to protest police brutality while standing on the bench for the anthem 

K’Andre Miller’s zoom call got hacked and the chat was spammed with the n-word. Hawks fans were removed from a game for racially taunting Devante Smith-Pelly

The Chicago Blackhawks, a team with a racist caricature as their logo, still exists in the league and the players routinely vote it as the best logo/jersey in the league

The NHL, and hockey as a whole, is racist, it’s been racist, and while what happened to Akim Aliu is horrifying and an extreme example of the racism in hockey, we’ve known the entire time that racism is prominent here. If you haven’t noticed that, you’re willfully ignorant of the constant racism that occurs within this sport

[moms-got-a-date-with-a-vampire]

the entirety of the Philadelphia Flyers get pegged

[timothyjimothyoshie]

I mean, yeah, what else are we gonna do besides thirst after Johnny during the hockey pause?

[neonkarma]

When I tell you I’m screaming. 😭