This is what white privilege looks like. None of the non-playing black Indiana Fever players stepped even half a foot on the court all night. Not even once. (I just re-watched) The three non-playing white players routinely did. Because they can.

If you’re having fun watching the WNBA playoffs, come join my newsletter’s Discord server where we watch game together & make jokes & will have a server-specific BINGO card for the Finals

The speed at which the administration has been able to convince people “gender ideology” is a normal and totally appropriate way to describe the idea that trans people deserve basic human rights is a sobering demonstration of how much they’ve managed to capture and reshape language. NYT this week.

"The officiating crew that we had tonight, for the leadership to deem those three people semifinals playoff-worthy, is fucking malpractice." Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was HEATED after Friday's loss to the Phoenix Mercury.

If you’re having fun watching the WNBA playoffs, come join my newsletter’s Discord server where we watch game together & make jokes & will have a server-specific BINGO card for the Finals

GODDAMN I LOVE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

This banter is too much fun to result in a technical foul.

Also!! I’m finally launching my new queer athlete fashion series, Out Fits. The first edition will be hitting inboxes Sunday, featuring everyone’s favorite papi, Tash Cloud.

If you've been waiting for my move off the Nazi site to start financially supporting my work, good news! I'm now on Beehiiv! And if you're looking to support an independent trans journalist doing queer sports reporting, look no further! You can subscribe to Out of Your League now:

Hey folks! I’m back; I’m looking for one or two straight couples to add to the mix on this request:

Or: my partner wants to go to a nice dinner & I want to watch the WNBA playoffs so I’m trying to see if there’s somewhere that does both but ok!

Caldwell says that this decision doesn’t match Tennessee’s values as a program & it harmed their recruiting process, yet she still made the decision to reinstate Whitehorn. I’m not sure I follow the logic here?

From @marisakabas.bsky.social: ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland “What’re you gonna do? Shoot me?” one witness yelled. “Go ahead. Shoot me.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Anyone in Boston know where I could watch tonight’s WNBA games and also get a decent dinner that isn’t like a bar/pub?

Wheelysports is apparently still going to spam for a lot of people, but you can read it here. The senior world championship road races are this weekend in Kigali, Rwanda, which is to cycling what Lexington, Kentucky, is to college baseball.

Also!! I’m finally launching my new queer athlete fashion series, Out Fits. The first edition will be hitting inboxes Sunday, featuring everyone’s favorite papi, Tash Cloud.

The world is a scary place right now for trans people (& journalism is cratering, too). If you would like to support an independent trans journalist doing anti-establishment sports reporting, I would super appreciate if you subscribed to my newsletter (now on Beehiiv!).

some truly effed up allegations in this lawsuit filed against James Dolan/MSG: using facial recognition tech/running background checks on fans who shouted "sell the team"; spying on a trans woman because ownership was concerned she was too friendly w/the Knicks cdn.pacermonitor.com/public/case/...

Maybe I’ll write about my paywall policy at some point but the gist of it is: my journalism & important cultural commentary is free, the “fun” stuff like link roundups & extras are paywalled

the exact right question if you ask me

Always love to see it!

happy to share a project I've been working on with @austeng.bsky.social for the past few months -- Sports Movies That Don't Suck, a podcast about sports movies that don't suck! more info to come soon

This is exactly the level of response that needs to be returned back to everyone who want to give bigots equal time to experts in some faux attempt to present a diversity of opinion.

I received a PR invite to a forthcoming panel on "Fair Play: Fair Play: Transgender Athletes and the Future of Sports." After looking at the panelists, frustration from weeks of watching the trans community be villainized kicked in. I decided I would respond. www.92ny.org/event/fair-p...

This is truly ridiculous and gives me impetus to point out that Frankie has moved their publication space to Beehiv and you should subscribe. The associated Discord is also very smart and will make you feel better about sports, something I think all of us could use

The top-tier annual subscription costs about the same as a month and a half of Disney’s highest-tier streaming bundle. Unlike Disney, Frankie doesn’t lick fascist boots. Reporting things the people behind the capitalist sports industrial complex don’t want reported takes money. Frankie does that.

this is great news. i love frankie's WNBA coverage, and we should support the people who move off substack!

is the GM of the Liberty really blaming NATASHA CLOUD—one of the assist leaders in the entire WNBA—for Sabrina's shooting performance this season? i'm sorry but WHAT? (via @mylesehrlich.bsky.social)

Here's one of those stories, from the beginning of this WNBA season, on the gentrification of the WNBA (with a special focus on the New York Liberty's franchise mirroring the gentrification pattern of Brooklyn itself):

not me being corny as hell while naming my new paid subscriber tiers lol thefrankiedlc.beehiiv.com/upgrade

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

If you've been waiting for my move off the Nazi site to start financially supporting my work, good news! I'm now on Beehiiv! And if you're looking to support an independent trans journalist doing queer sports reporting, look no further! You can subscribe to Out of Your League now:

The amount of back-end work @tlpavlich.gay has done this weekend is the stuff of nightmares. I’m very grateful for the help but it also hammers home why it was so difficult for me to leave the platform.

Looking for great sports and culture writing? Looking to support queer writers? @thefrankiedlc.news newsletter is now hosted on beehiiv and has new subscription tiers. You should definitely check it out

It's here! My first post on @beehiiv.com. My URL should transfer over later today. Thank you to @tlpavlich.gay for their help with all the back-end logistics, which Substack's export data makes very difficult. Please consider a paid subscription to support my work, now more than ever:

A surge of public lewdness arrests inside a Penn Station bathroom by Amtrak Police has rattled the LGBTQ community and landed at least one person in ICE custody, THE CITY has learned. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/24/a...

"What was really encouraging was how open and supportive most of the houses were. There’s historically been a rigid line in the industry, women being sent only RTW and men only menswear, so to see how much that’s shifted in today’s climate was genuinely heartening." -Devin Hershey, Vogue stylist

I was thrilled to help @thefrankiedlc.news with this and as always, my services are available if you're trying to leave substack. If you are queer and trans, I will help you do it free of charge. GTFO Substack! Also, a little about this experience in 🧵

It's here! My first post on @beehiiv.com. My URL should transfer over later today. Thank you to @tlpavlich.gay for their help with all the back-end logistics, which Substack's export data makes very difficult. Please consider a paid subscription to support my work, now more than ever:

not me being corny as hell while naming my new paid subscriber tiers lol thefrankiedlc.beehiiv.com/upgrade

"If SafeSport cannot move faster, cannot operate transparently, cannot honor its mandate, then it must be dismantled and replaced with something that can."

First newsletter goes out from Beehiiv in the morning. It's a great time to financially support me after I've left the networking & discoverability of Substack.

First newsletter goes out from Beehiiv in the morning. It's a great time to financially support me after I've left the networking & discoverability of Substack.

The all matching Aces coaching staff outfits always look culty to me

okay so listen is the reason the rapture isn't happening today because it's the pub day for HERETIC: A QUEER REVOLT AGAINST EVANGELICALISM, EMPIRE, AND THE LIES WE ARE SOLD? no. but like. what if it was. bookshop.org/a/84844/9780...

shot… chaser (from the NYT ofc)

it feels like there’s this big blaring red siren saying “they’re gonna do a trans genocide” and libs are seeing signs of it like censorship and health care changes and violent attacks but not connecting a single solitary dot

Nobody. Absolutely nobody. Indiana Fever Elbows: #WNBASky

Hi! For many reasons, I've decided to create a new newsletter on Ghost to supplement my Patreon blog. I needed another place besides Patreon to post my work, and I plan on using this as a place to gather and organize all of my work. Sign up for a free sub! burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-h...

I’ll finally be sending my newsletter through Beehiiv starting next week. New subscriptions are paused while I get the back end stuff fully transferred & set up but I’ll be back in business in a few days! Please be patient with any hiccups in the meantime 🙏