Category: Inclusion
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Guest Essay: “Gender Safety as a Community Commitment” by Léa Fae (they/them), USA.
Last year, my martial arts community had a reckoning. A respected and popular sensei within our greater community was accused of sexual misconduct and gender-based harassment. Those accusations raised strong and deep questions: How does this happen? How should our community respond to accusations? What responsibility does the community bear for one member’s actions? How do we prevent…
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Guest Essay: “Experiences of a Transgender Kendoka” by Natalie Rhodes.
A lot of discussion seems to happen around the topic of transgender women in the martial arts without necessarily spending a whole lot of time listening to our experiences or attempting to empathise with our feelings. So I am going to take this opportunity to voice my thoughts and feelings about kendo practice as a…
Kate Sylvester Perspectives 