The dumbbell VS the rolling pin

This creative narrative is an auto ethnography based on sports, gender and race regarding marginalised/minority groups who don’t fit in the ‘White’ category or its binary. The Indo-Fijian women, who are of a South Asian background with a Pacific Island experience, (the ‘others’) are minorities at a triple degree. Firstly, they face gender inferiority in their Indo-Fijian communities; secondly, inequities in sporting opportunities (based on the common belief of their lack of physicality) against their iTaukei counterparts and finally living in a third world country with conservative cultures, limited sporting facilities and an inequitable PE curriculum deprives Indo-Fijian women of real opportunities in the sporting fields in comparison to privileged women in developed countries. For these reasons, the voice of the ‘other’ is necessary to make positive contributions as, there is a lack of no-white voices/researchers with no-northern views in this research area.