Offside Project: Jem

Jem goes into queer theories of sports spaces and football, his love of Ted Lasso, and the difficulty of wanting to access men’s spaces while worrying about the increasingly transphobic environment of the UK.
This video is part of the 'Offside Project series' hosted on Otherness Archive:
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Coming out or not coming out. Women’s spaces, men’s spaces, trans spaces, mixed spaces, queer spaces. The world post-pandemic. The countryside versus the city. Pro or beginner. Trans pasts, trans presents, trans futures.
The Offside Project is a series of 20 filmed conversations held during the months of April to June, asking transmasculine people about their past and present access to football. 14 of these conversations were shown in excerpt form during an audio-visual exhibit and event in Leeds in July 2023.
The conversations centre around what spaces may or may not have existed in the past, what spaces are currently being created, solidarity and kinship with women’s sports, and what intersectional inclusivity looks like.