{"id":89853,"date":"2023-12-14T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=89853"},"modified":"2023-12-14T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:18:52","slug":"horizon-scholarship-recipient-gives-voice-to-queer-women-in-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/12\/horizon-scholarship-recipient-gives-voice-to-queer-women-in-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Scholarship recipient gives voice to queer women in hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE: This is one in a series of articles on Brock\u2019s 2023-24 Horizon Graduate Student Scholarship recipients. Read other stories in the series on <\/em>The Brock News<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

For Katrynne (Kat) Rice (BA \u201923), all voices matter and deserve to be preserved in history.<\/p>\n

When she became interested in women\u2019s sport history as an undergraduate student at Brock, Rice knew immediately there were gaps in the history of Canada\u2019s national game.<\/p>\n

An avid hockey fan, Rice has a long history with the sport both as a player and through her father, who was coach of the University of Windsor\u2019s men\u2019s hockey team and led the team to victory in the 1997-98 Queen’s Cup.<\/p>\n

Now completing a master\u2019s in History at Brock, Rice is researching the experiences of queer women in recreational ice hockey in Niagara and providing a platform for their voices to be heard.<\/p>\n

Rice has received a Horizon Graduate Student Scholarship in recognition of her sport oral history research, which harnesses her digital preservation skills to centre the voices of queer women and contribute to Brock\u2019s growing repository of oral interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the opportunity to tell the story of queer women in the history of hockey \u2014 a community that historically has been so overlooked \u2014 is an incredible step forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Through oral interviews, which involve collecting, interpreting and preserving memories of people in communities in their own voice, Rice is putting the spotlight on recreational players, coaches, organizers and officials. She is eager to examine how the experiences of queer women relate to their sense of belonging within their own team, their league and their country.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven that hockey is such an important part of the Canadian experience, I hope my\u00a0 findings will shed new light on ways to examine Canada\u2019s national game,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Rice said conducting oral interviews is a key aspect of her research because they are a successful methodology for researching those who have been marginalized or excluded from historical texts in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many parts of a story can get left out when it is only shared through text, like the tone of voice or speaking cadence.\u00a0For a community that for so long has not had a platform to be heard, it matters that they use their own voice to communicate their experiences,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her interviews will be accessible to the public through Brock\u2019s Sport Oral History Archive<\/a> (SOHA).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is vital that these stories be available beyond the academic realm; community members need to be able to access this type of information,\u201d Rice said.<\/p>\n

Looking to the future, Rice hopes to pursue doctoral studies and expand her research to provincial and national contexts.<\/p>\n

While community-level hockey can be an extremely positive experience, Rice also expects to uncover experiences of exclusion and isolation, especially at the national level.<\/p>\n

\u201cHockey touches people\u2019s lives in many ways. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute to a more inclusive history of the sport I love,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Katrynne (Kat) Rice (BA \u201923), all voices matter and deserve to be preserved in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":89854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,55,37,1],"tags":[506,384,9928,13150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89869,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853\/revisions\/89869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}