Stef Rubino

To many on the outside, strength sports seem like a masculinity-obsessed, all-male freak show. But what I found when I entered the strength sports world was completely the opposite of anyone’s perception. There were men of all ages, races, sizes, and capabilities, of course, and there were so many other kinds of people, too.

At the beginning of their introduction to Homosexual Intifada, the new anthology of queer Palestinian writing they co-edited alongside writer Hannah Moushabeck, George Abraham writes: “Contextualized within this interconnected settler genocidal regime, it is unsurprising to witness a rise of queer and trans insurgence, both globally and domestically in the U.S., standing in solidarity with Palestinians against the very regimes that dispose of all of our bodies without hesitation or...