Focusing on queer-identified amateur football teams, this article investigates the potentials of the mobilities and alliances of gender non-conforming footballing people to disrupt the seemingly effortless structure of the football field. While football is arguably one of the sports with the strongest discriminatory attitudes toward gender non-conforming people, it has also become a site of resistance for queers in Turkey as of 2015. How political opposition groups relate to the football field, which is mostly considered as a male-dominant and heterosexualized space where social norms are reproduced, are classified into three groups in my research: resistance through, against, and for football. I give particular attention to the category “resistance for football” as a distinctive way for gender non-conforming people to inhabit the field. I discuss how the link between sexual and spatial orientations shapes the domain of what a body can do, both in terms of normativity and capacity, and I explore what these teams offer in order to exceed spatial and sexual boundaries. Lastly, I present recent queer interventions in the value system of the game through which I reflect upon the concept of “queer commons” and the processes of bonding, belonging, and border-making in queer communities.

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足球场上的性政治：土耳其的酷儿场

本文聚焦于酷儿识别的业余足球队，调查了性别不合格的足球人士的流动性和联盟的潜力，以破坏看似轻松的足球场结构。虽然足球可以说是对性别不合格者歧视态度最强烈的运动之一，但截至 2015 年，它也已成为土耳其酷儿的抵抗场所。作为复制社会规范的男性主导和异性恋空间，在我的研究中分为三组：抵抗通过,反对， 和为了足球。我特别关注“阻力”类别为了足球”作为性别不合格的人居住在该领域的一种独特方式。我讨论了性取向和空间取向之间的联系如何在规范性和能力方面塑造了身体可以做什么的领域，并探索了这些团队提供什么以超越空间和性界限。最后，我介绍了最近酷儿对游戏价值体系的干预，通过这些干预，我反思了“酷儿公地”的概念以及酷儿社区中的结合、归属和边界形成的过程。