Siren #138: Casey Price, Pride in motorsport + book giveaway
A Women in Sport Collective
Welcome back to regular programming!
Well... kind of!
We love to shake things up at Siren HQ.
Our flexibility and willingness to evolve is one of our strengths and this newsletter, #138 (can you believe it!) marks another evolution for us.
Welcome to our new monthly newsletter featuring exclusive content and access to resources, events and giveaways + more!
Our priority is always ensuring we’re doing the most for women and non-binary people in sports media. From paid opportunities, mentoring and resources and, of course, championing their work from the sidelines, we are always working to challenge that status quo.
So these monthly newsletters will look different each time they land in your inbox. Some months we’ll be prioritising sharing resources for the up and comers. Other months we’ll be advocating for those already in the industry. There’ll be opportunities to get your work published and access to all kinds of great events and workshops and networking.
So welcome to our first monthly newsletter of 2024!
We’re excited to bring back some regular content and still hold a space for storytelling on the Siren platform amongst our other projects. Such as our partnership with ABC Sport to deliver more stories of women and non-binary people in sport to the national broadcaster as well as offer more journalism pathways for women and non-binary content creators.
Managing this partnership takes a huge chunk of our operational time (it is paid work—something we unashamedly prioritise!), but this monthly newsletter will continue to be a space to share stories, celebrate great sports media work, let you all know what is happening at Siren HQ to ensure we stay connected to you, to our community.
You’re the reason we do this!
So keep an eye out for us in your inboxes every month! We’re excited to keep the stories coming to keep challenging the status quo of sports media!
In this issue
We’ve got motorsport fever and are shining a light on the incredible Casey Price, a driver, Racing Pride and FIA Girls on Track Ambassador. Check out Casey’s feature interview with Siren co-founder Kasey Symons. We share our latest articles from our ABC Sport partnership and we’ve got copies of Ellen Van Neerven’s award-winning book Personal Score to giveaway!
Casey Price: the MINI Girl Racer driving change in motorsport
By Kasey Symons
Racing Pride and FIA Girls on Track Ambassador Casey Price is using her experiences in motorsport to ensure all are welcome in racing.
ICYMI—the motorsport edition
Did you get caught up in F1 action over the weekend? It’s an interesting space for us here at Siren as we champion women and non-binary people in sport, and there are not many visible women and non-binary folk at first glance in motorsport! But there are some incredible people working to change that and doing cool things in the space to bring in more fans, drivers, engineers, commentators and administrators.
If you’re interested in F1 fan engagement, fandom and pop culture expert Dr Georgia Carroll has a newsletter called the F1 Fan Engagement Tracking Project all about fandom in F1. Dr Carroll looks at the fan engagement strategies and provides insights across fan cultures like What F1 can learn from Taylor Swift.
We also want to shout out the work of the awesome Priyanka Chadha, the National Participation Program Lead at Motorsport Australia who is doing amazing things to drive more diverse participation in motorsport, especially through the FIA Girls on Track program.
Congratulations also go to our great friends at Proud 2 Play for partnering with Motorsport Australia and Racing Pride to create the world’s first Pride Hub at a F1 Grand Prix at the Australian GP last weekend.
The Pride Hub included a very cool historical display with a timeline charting LGBTQIA+ trailblazers in motorsport, sharing amazing stories like the first ever woman driver, Hélène van Zuylen in 1898, who was a lesbian, a member of the Rothschild family, a baroness as well and had a poet lesbian lover on the side. Incredible!
Opportunity! Join the 2024 The Daily Aus x Nike Training Squad
Nike and The Daily Aus are on a mission to establish a national collective of young female and gender-diverse sports journalists with a three-month Training Squad program will help five ambitious female or gender-diverse journalists aged 18-35 accelerate their careers in Australian sports journalism.
Apply via the The Daily Aus website.
New research reveals extent of gendered online harm
A study by researchers from Deakin University has found that an overwhelming majority of elite sportswomen (nine in 10) have experienced some form of gendered online harm, including 87 per cent in the past year.
Siren co-founder Kate O'Halloran wrote about the groundbreaking research by Associate Professor Kim Toffoletti and Dr Caitlin McGrane for ABC Sport.
All the latest from the Siren Sport X ABC Sport Partnership
Siren co-founder Kasey Symons wrote more about motorsport for our ABC Sport partnership and covered the world’s first Pride Hub hosted at a Formula 1 Grand Prix which was at our own Australian GP.
Sienna Nobile also wrote about how Mamma Ball is bringing mums to basketball in a fun, low-pressure environment.
Sienna was one of our Emerging Sports Write Program participants in 2021 and it is so great to see her continuing to kick some sports writing goals! Nice work Sienna!
Siren Book Club - Win a copy of Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven!
We recently hosted our online Siren Book Club that featured Ellen van Neerven’s award winning Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity.
It was a lovely night discussing the book with Ellen, hearing their approach to writing and reflecting on sport and culture. Thanks to everyone who joined us for a great conversation!
We have three copies of Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity to give away to those still hoping to read it or maybe give as a gift to someone who you think would love it as much as you did!
Email us at contact@sirensport.com.au with “Personal Score” in the subject line and with your postal details before 5pm AEST April 19 to be in the running!
And stay tuned for our next Siren Book Club read! We will be announcing it soon!
Siren is now on Patreon!
We have a Patreon! And we’ll be adding some cool things for our Patreon supporters over 2024 so if you can, sign up now!
Funds from our Patreon go towards:
commissioning and paying writers and content creators
running our Emerging Sports Writer Programs
creating opportunities for women and non-binary folk in sports media
The support of the Siren community has facilitated that work and helped support those commissions and opportunities and we can’t thank you enough.
You can become a Patron of Siren today and help us continue to challenge the status quo of sports media.
