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CLAMOR: A Loud and Continued Uproar of Many Human Voices • Number 19 • Mar/Apr 2003 PEOPLE SEX & GENDER 9 Divine Secrets of the Hoops Sisterhood 44 How Queers Became White Interview byTess. Lotta Gay Identity and the Failures ot Single-Issue Politics 13 Rollin' at the Big 20 Jonathan Kidd Lissa Gotwals 46 On the Sidelines 14 Reinventing Tradition: Girls and Identity in Football Country Sensei Mike Esmailzadeh Elizabeth Cline Interview by Daniel Burtonrose POLITICS 17 Kickin' It: A Girl and a Game Carolyn Chernotf 50 Detroying Mothers 18 After the Cameras Stop Flashing The Emma Goldman Papers Project Two Athletes After the Limelight Fades Interview by Sean Carswell Kari Lydersen 54 The Future of Women's Sports is in Jeopardy Jodi Helmer CULTURE 55 The War on Immigrants 24 Betties on Boards Ravi Grover Myriam Gurba MEDIA 27 For the Pol itics or the Playoffs? A Fan's Dilemma 60 Walk Like a Warrion Charles Shaw Dead Prez 29 Minor League University Interview by Rosa Clemente Michael Calderone 62 Bringing It All Back Home: 31 My Triathlon So New Media Chris Benevich Josh Medsker 31 My Chi 64 Legendary Athletes: Becky Sicking Midwest Hip Hop for the Masses 32 Play is Not a Game Interview by Jason Kucsma Shepherd Siegel 65 Breaking: The Urban Soldier's Original Gangster Revolution ECONOMICS Emilia Wiles, Jason Tirade, and David Viera 36 Bloodsport: 66 Volcano Boarding .. Seriously Cockfighting in America Zoltan Istvan Russell Cobb 39 The Gretzky Effect REVIEWS Mickey Z. 20 Books & Zines 48 Sex on Paper 40 Notes from a Mestiza Survivor 34 Censored News 58 Agitators Ariana Vigil 41 History 63 Sounds 42 Film Please address letters to [email protected] or write us at PO Box 1225 Bowling Green, OH 43402 Letters may be edited for length. Not all letters received will be printed. "Technotopia"(Jan/Feb 2003). To set the record is much more directly the result of explosive Worst Activist Meeting Ever straight: the notion that our society, in all its tech- population growth and an ever-more-voracious nological glory, is approaching a "singularity" (at capitalist maw. We'll get far more mileage tinker- Reading the latest issues of Clamor was like being which the machines presumably take over and get ing with our social technologies than we'll ever in the worst activist meeting ever.