About the Cover Image

The image is of a locker in a changing room. Men, bodies and changing rooms have historically been associated with sports, homosociality and homophobia. In such instances, the locker room has become a space where men learn how to be men where the talk and innuendo of the sexual degradation of women becomes a form of bonding, of men being men. Chow (2021) suggests that the locker room is more than just a place for the reinforcement of misogyny and homophobia. It's a space of watching and being watched, of glances, a place of visual touching. It's a place where there's an uneasy friction embedded in practices that are openly hidden.