Quidditch in 2020: What We're Doing Right and What We Can Be Doing

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Quidditch in 2020: What We're Doing Right and What We Can Be Doing

Cameron Walker is one of the co-coaches for new club, Eastern Sydney Universities (previously UTS and UNSW). In this article, he questions whether quidditch is doing enough to be returning to sport under the pandemic conditions, as many other community sports in NSW have done. He also expresses concerns over the impacts of the pandemic and lack of gameplay on recruitment, suggests solutions, and goes on to describe the successes ESU have had over the last several months in keeping trainings going, keeping players motivated, and continuing to prepare for potential games in the future, with the hope that other clubs, similarly impacted by the pandemic, may be able to learn from what has worked for ESU.

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COVID-19: Updates for NSW and ACT Restrictions

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COVID-19: Updates for NSW and ACT Restrictions

In response to the rapidly increasing community spread of COVID-19 across different hotspots around Sydney, Quidditch Australia and Quidditch NSW have decided to proactively move NSW back to Step 2 restrictions. The ACT, meanwhile, has been moved up to Step 4 restrictions. NSW teams who are continuing to train are encouraged to fill out a Covid Safety Plan and send this to Quidditch Australia.

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COVID-19: Update for NSW

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COVID-19: Update for NSW

Quidditch Australia and Quidditch NSW have been monitoring the outbreak situation in Casula, particularly affecting the Liverpool and Cambletown areas in South Western Sydney.

At this stage, we are still looking at how the situation is developing and whether it remains localised or continues to spread, and we encourage teams to take precautions that make sense for where they are.

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The Binary Debunked Part 1: Breaking Down Sex Binaries

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The Binary Debunked Part 1: Breaking Down Sex Binaries

Zoe Cheong seeks to explain to the lay-quidditch person what it is like to be outside of the gender binary. In this article, they examine the common perception of biological sex as a binary, and how this breaks down upon closer examination. This is the first in a series of four articles by Zoe exploring sex, gender, identity, expression, and all of the complexities of being a minority in a minority sport, aiming to help more people understand non-binary perspectives and how more people how they can make themselves and the broader quidditch community more inclusive.

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