Panelists: Matthew Salesses, Nandi Comer, Peter Geye

Moderator: Faramola Shonekan

Sports are everywhere. The fields, the slopes, the courts, the rings. However one place you will never find sports is in a vacuum. They are informed by race, gender, colonialism, politics and the complexities that come with being humans that just so happen to sweat. These panelists — all of whom engage in the sport of writing — seek to place identity at centerfield, and to return trials and triumphs back to athletes and spectators and those of us that read about them.