I hope you get a chance to listen to my “America’s Girls” podcast, or at least rate it five stars, or at least tell a friend, or at least don’t confuse it with the American Girl doll, which would be disheartening. Over on the Texas Monthly site, I’ve been writing “behind the pod” essays about . . . Read More
Articles tagged ‘Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’
December 22, 2021
Cheerleaders, cheerleaders everywhere
And I have been writing their stories.
November 28, 2021
Why I’m Doing a Podcast on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
For most of my life, they were just images to worship or disdain or ignore -- but they're one of the great and complicated stories to come out of my city
I grew up watching women’s bodies. I think it started on movie screens, but it moved to television and locker rooms and swimming pools. I watched their suntanned shoulders in halter tops, I studied the parting waves of their tumbling hair, and I wondered if my body would ever have that kind of magic. There . . . Read More