my personal wrestlewriting selection... part 1! š¤¼
- how socialism will change pro wrestling by jetta rae (i quote various parts of this on a regular basis)
- professional wrestling, embodied morality, and altered states of consciousness by lawrence b. mcbride (again i think about the concept of mid-match trance constantly)
- meet the men who fetishize obscure pro wrestlers on youtube by chris stokel-walker (life-changing perspective on squash matches)
- the birth and death of a professional wrestling alter-ego: takahara hidekazuās gamushara and the loss of a transgressive identity by fareed ben-youssef
- fighting spirit in japanese puroresu by jenny murphy
- wordwork by d. gateƱo (dgatenoartist) (PWYW wrestling poetry collection)
- the beauty of defeat: a memorial to yuki uenoās blade job by willard (someone running a wrestling fetish blog hit me up once asking for more pictures of ueno getting beat up by sasaki because they read this article and couldn't get enough)
- why wrestler tetsuya naito is the unlikely hero i needed by sarah kurchak
- a body from the balcony: the devastating erotics of omega-ibushi at budokan hall by lb teufel
- myth! allegory! ekphrasis!: professional wrestling & the poetics of kayfabe by marion wrenn
and something that isn't about wrestling but i think is instrumental to understanding men's wrestling specifically is ecce homo: the male-body-in-pain as redemptive figure by kent brintnall. touches on masculinity + performance + action in very compelling ways