#toni chapman

[anderwater]

“We haven’t seen a lot of stories like Bertie’s before,” Robinson told LGBTQ Nation. “Someone who is a person of color and non-binary, we don’t see those stories in history often. History has been whitewashed and straightwashed but these characters existed. These people existed. I felt so honored to be a part of telling these stories and telling a story similar to mine for a person like Bertie.”

Lea Robinson as UNCLE BERT⸱IE A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022)

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[evanzbuck]

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN | 1.05 “Back Footed”

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[7central]

I just love the different ways that aloto approaches queerness and parenthood.

Toni recognizes Max’s queerness and fears it, but mostly she fears her daughter being hurt in the way that she’s undoubtedly seen happen to Bertie.  The core of their conflict being that she wants to provide for Max, since she’s a pillar in her community and she provides for everyone, at the salon, ushering at church, being motherly towards people like Clance who need it.  She does like Max as well as love her, but she can’t see Max living a future with the way she is, so she wants her to change all the same.  It’s such a realistic conflict with so much urgency in the time (and now too).  Edgar is much more accepting of Max’s reality because he didn’t experience losing Bertie the way that Toni did, and his family has been settled in Rockford for much longer, so he’s farther removed from the immediate need to establish himself in the community the way that Toni has.  Toni, on the other hand, knows how hard it is for Black women, and she knows how much more dangerous it is for people who are gender non-conforming and queer.  On the flip side of the coin, there’s Bertie and Gracie, who are pillars in their own community, who bring Max in and encourage her to learn of the world beyond Toni’s sphere.  All of them love Max, but none of them can tell her who she is.

For Lupe, motherhood is a complicated obligation.  We see her sending money home, so there’s someone she’s providing for, but we never find out who exactly that is to her.  From what she tells Esti, her family intervened and took her daughter from her because they thought she would be a bad influence in some way.  Bad influence in that she was a young, single mother?  That she was queer?  Something else entirely?  It’s not clear.  But whatever it was, Lupe recognizes, and regrets to an extent, that she has benefitted from being relieved of the responsibility of motherhood.  So when she’s forced back into a caretaker position, expected to meet all of Esti’s needs because she is the only one who can communicate with her, she resists.  It’s cruel, yes, to contribute more directly in Esti’s exclusion, while the others do it carelessly, out of ignorance and lack of effort.  But it’s an understandable response to the unfair expectations placed on her, especially given that she’s harshly scrutinized by her teammates and subjected to casual racism on a daily basis.  That’s not even getting into the ways that Esti reminds her of her daughter, and of the youth that she herself was denied, having a child at that age.  It’s all been denied to her, because, in letting go of her daughter, she lost all claim to those feelings.  In deciding to go find Esti, deciding to open up to her about it, she gets just a little bit of that back.  Her motherhood is inextricable to who she is, and so is her queerness, and so is baseball.  She’s never been allowed to have all three.  And opening up about it doesn’t fix that, but it’s something.  Esti’s forgiveness is something that Lupe rarely receives, but constantly gives.  And forgiveness is something we constantly deny mothers who give up their children.

Carson’s sister immediately mentions the absence of their mother on the phone and half-accuses her of leaving Charlie.  It’s not until later that we find out that Carson’s mother left when she was young, probably forcing her sister into that motherly role.  Carson clearly misses her mom, maybe idealizes her more than you’d expect from a kid who was abandoned.  I don’t know if Carson ever realizes it fully, but I think she takes comfort in knowing that, even if her sister and husband are disappointed about her running off to play pro ball, putting off having children for it, her mother would probably be proud of her decision.  Charlie’s accusation that “whatever made your mother leave is in you,” is heavy with the implication that her mother was queer.  That it was selfish to choose that over her family.  And it was.  But Carson decides to do it, too, because the newfound sense of self she has is more than any of the stability or love that her husband could give her.  In a way, it’s just the same as Greta confiding that she’d like to have children but could never put herself through commitment to a man.  I think a part of Carson knew that about her mother all along, which is why she shows such an unexpected amount of grace about being left behind.

It’s just so intense to see these different ways that queerness intersects with and complicates parenthood, especially in this time period, when the expectation of women to become mothers was even more prevalent than it is now.  The strangeness of having so many men off at war is enough to shift the perception just slightly enough for something like the League to exist, but it’s all about to snap back like a rubber band during the baby boom to come.

#is there a thesis here? no not at all #just pure vibes #aloto #aloto series #aloto 2022 #a league of their own #max chapman #toni chapman #edgar chapman #uncle bertie #what's his last name?? #what's gracie's last name?? #lupe garcia #esti gonzalez #carson shaw #charlie shaw #greta gill

[swallowedabug]

#a league of their own #max chapman #toni chapman #:::...

[shessoft]

Why do we need a code word? In case things get bad and we need to escape. A League of Their Own | S01E08

#alotoedit #alotosource #alotogifs #maxchapmanedit #clancemorganedit #aloto #Max Chapman #Clance Morgan #Toni Chapman #ollies edits #she has so many line deliveries in this scene that kill me

[marchmaxness]

Hello, fruits! This March we are running a fanwork event to shine the spotlight on Max and her community. The prompts are loose suggestions—we just hope you will take this opportunity to focus your love, time, and effort and Max and characters from her half of the story. Go forth and create !!!

Tag your works with #marchmaxness23 or #maxmadness23 and we will share and save them here!

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[ray-vnn]

#aloto #a league of their own #greta gill #D’Arcy carden #carson shaw #abbi jacobson #max chapman #chanté adams #toni chapman #clance morgan

[youroldfriendmurkyaura]

Clance is heartbreaking! She seriously believes she’s never going to see Max again. How old was she when her parents were killed for talking back to white people or whatever?

She’s not exactly convinced her sweet husband is going to make it back to her either. It’s just her, Cheryl, Edgar, Toni, and those annoying kids now.

#a league of their own #aloto misc #clance morgan #max chapman #aloto perfect game #guy morgan #edgar chapman #toni chapman #cheryl

[itsami]

God, the raw emotion and pain of this scene really gets to me

Anyone with an ounce of religious trauma and inner turmoil about their sexuality can attest that this thought process is painfully familiar.

I know she's talking about baseball here, but the double meaning is all too real, and it cuts DEEP.

#if gay bad and god make no mistake why me gay #math isn’t mathing #max chapman #toni chapman #aloto #aloto 2022 #a league of their own series #a league of their own #a league of their own 2022 #my aloto posts

[emilywhere]

ok but have we discussed toni’s choice to name her child maxine, a feminine name with a masculine nickname, much like she and her sibling were given, which she (jokingly but knowingly) identifies as a major factor in the bank being willing to give her a loan for her hair salon? this show is so damn thoughtful

#aloto #a league of their own 2022 #max chapman #toni chapman #aloto 2022

[lovestrucklovesickslut]

This is how I’ve been convincing my friends to watch A League of Their Own

#this is a joke #or is it #I’ve gotten three of them so #it works #molly ephraim #maybelle fox #saidah arrika ekulona #toni chapman #toni #a league of their own #watch it #immediately

[moghedien]

ok so watch this video

but the way these this pair killed me with this

#Molly's making out hand motions killed me #I tried to get their entire extended reasons for why you should watch the show but my computer wasn't cooperating #so this is what I can manage just go watch the whole video tbh #saidah arrika ekulona #molly ephraim #toni chapman #maybelle fox #a league of their own

[bitgaay]

im rewatching aloto for the 50th time at this point and the hair salon scene is so funny, when max is trying to lie to her mom and that one woman is trying to help her, but max is still clueless asfgkahs still as good as the first time i saw it

#JESUS MAXINE IT DONT MEAN A THING #😂😂😂 #she only has baseball in that head of her doesn’t she #max chapman #toni chapman #a league of their own #aloto #m

[7central]

Toni speaking about how God put her on her own path even though it was unconventional being the thing that pushed Max to own up to getting a job at the factory just so that she could play....not talked about enough!  “Why would He give me this gift if it wasn’t my path?” Yes, why? why?

#GOD.... #max chapman #toni chapman #aloto #aloto series

[warriormech]

I find it deeply ironic...

That Toni Chapman literally built her business [that she is determined to pass on to her daughter] on the fact that whoever gave her a loan assumed 'Toni' was a man. Like she built her success on being mis-gendered and has a problem with said daughters own gender identity?

Toni is wonderfully complicated and deep, ugh.

#max chapman #toni chapman #aloto analysis #aloto #a league of our own

[therhythmismyblanket]

Ugh Toni meaning well for Max but still doing and saying all the wrong things is so bitter sweet. That talk between her and Uncle Bert was so good to better understand her character

#I don’t think I’llever get over all the nuances of the writing of this show #a league of their own #toni chapman #uncle bertie