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    ‘You can come as you are’: the football club subverting gender norms

    Jul 18, 2023 4 minutes

    One lonely lockdown in 2021, a solitary poster in a cafe window caught the eye of Mitch Nivalis as the film-maker left the supermarket in Castlemaine, Victoria. The poster was a call-out for the Mount Alexander Falcons football team, a come-and-try day for women and gender-diverse players.

    Nivalis, a lapsed sporty type from childhood, hadn’t seen gender-diverse people actively encouraged to join a football club before. Something stirred.

    Nivalis hated football. “I went to one live game when I first moved to Melbourne [from Sydney] 20 years ago, and with the heavy drinking, the heckling and abuse that was being thrown around, all I could think of was I wanted to get out of there,” Nivalis says.

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