Graduate Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau (MA art history, 2019) is among the recipients of the Governor General’s Literary Awards for her essay Offside: cultural and feminist chronicle on the professional sports industry (Editions du agitation). This award earned him a $25,000 scholarship.
To affirm that Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau (MA art history, 2019) was parachuted into a destabilizing universe when her partner Laurent Duvernay-Tardif joined the Kansas City Chiefs team, in the NFL, in 2014, is an understatement, as the jury members pointed out.
“Propelled into the large American stadiums where male power, money and the star system reign, Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau takes us to the front row, to analyze the human cost, hidden and assumed by the women who gravitate in this middle, emphasized the jury. His outlook imbued with humanity and his acute intelligence open up new perspectives on the professional sports industry, its functioning, the framework it imposes on our society and the injustices it helps to reproduce.
“Since its publication, Out of play has experienced a media journey and a popular reception greater than anything I could have imagined, testifies the winner on the website of her publishing house. I am so proud to share with the readership a different perspective on the impact of sport in the fight for gender equality – especially, at a time when we are experiencing an unprecedented turning point in favor of women’s sport and the place of women in sport.”
Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau also expresses her thanks to Department of Literary Studies professor Martine Delvaux, whom she says was “the spark plug for this speech.”
The author is devoting herself to writing a second work to be published by Éditions du reguage-ménage.
