TMM MANIFESTO
*A RE-IMAGINING OF MINA LOY’S FEMINIST MANIFESTO FROM 1914.

To today’s readership, and human beings existing in the world, the sports publishing landscape for women and non-binary people is, in short, inadequate. 

We can have more. Much more.

The same repetitive mundane humdrum cycle of decades gone by has got to go.

What we’re being given isn’t publishing; it’s selectivism, perfectionism, and built by those it isn’t made for. 

It’s one size fits all, and that size we’re referring to is exactly the same size as a middle-aged man. ‘Guess you’ve already met?

The shoes don’t come in our sizes, the football shorts aren’t made for us and the volleyball shorts are somehow banned. 

More skin, less skin, more hair, less hair, more attitude, less attitude. 

We could ask them to decide what it is that they want, to pin it down.

But that’s none of our business. 

Apropos of anger, an itch, a hunger. Starvation, even. Panting, aching, more-wanting, we wipe the mud, the pool-water, the sweat from our eyes and see the same ugly thing. 

Judgemental, old-fashioned, male-first, male-dominated, male-orientated, junk mail, made to win. 

But what if sport existed far beyond the confines of whatever winning means?

And what if winning has more of a story to it than whatever happens beyond the camera flashes of match day?

What if the morning walk, run, stretch over the kettle was entered into the ring.

What if sport isn’t even the right word at all? Too much pressure to attach the ways we move to uncomfortable skin-tight definitions. 

What if we’re just talking about something bigger? A playing field so wide open that we can all fit in, even when we’re twisting, curling, shaking, wandering, paddling, jiving, hopping, skipping; moving.

What if that playing field gave us a voice to explore all that?

And what if that playing field was made of A4 paper? Paper stacked into a magazine called The Movement Movement. TMM for short. 

TMM is a place to speak honestly, angrily, passionately; exhausted.

TMM is a place to speak loudly, angrily, softly, side by side.

TMM is a place to explore the perfect, imperfect, gritty, polished, difficult, effortless, empowering, vulnerable, relaxing and challenging sides of sport.

TMM tears down the definition of sport completely and replaces it with something called Movement; the most human thing of all.

TMM is a place to wear whatever you want, eat whatever you want, and move in whatever way you want to.

TMM is an invitation for all women and non-binary people to have an open conversation about MOVEMENT.

What does that word even mean? 

That’s up to you. 

Time to get moving.