Hi, I’m Frankie!
I’m a journalist with a focus on sports, culture, gender, and queerness—and particularly the ways those things intersect. Maybe you’ve seen some of my work:
An award-winning feature for Sports Illustrated on where non-binary athletes fit into the gendered world of sports
The hidden history of the queer women who played for the All-American Girls Baseball League (which was used as inspiration and research for the Amazon Prime series, A League of Their Own)
A piece for The Washington Post on why the WNBA can be compared to Alice’s Chart from the L Word
A Cosmo dispatch from Camp Gaylore, a weekend-long retreat for queer Taylor Swift fans
Oh, and my book: HAIL MARY: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League, which tells the true story of the first professional women’s football league in U.S. history (think A League of Their Own meets GLOW, but football in the 1970s)
As a full-time freelancer, there’s no easy place I can direct people who want to keep up with my work. This newsletter started as a way for me to share my work, along with behind-the-scenes tea and bonus content that may have gotten lost on the cutting room floor.
It’s still that, but it’s expanded to be a place for me to share my thoughts and observations about topics that I find interesting. A lot of publications aren’t interested in publishing stories that I want to write—this is a place for me to share them. Those things are usually related to women’s sports, queer and trans athletes, pop culture with a queer bent, and the field of writing and journalism.
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