DeFIFA! – deepa sivarajan

Header graphic with chains at the top and bottom borders. The main text reads, "DeFIFA. Fans Care: Community Support and Safety in Sports". On the left is cartoony digital art of a person in green hugging a soccer ball that has the Seattle skyline in it.

Fans Care: Community Support & Safety in Sports

Part VI of DeFIFA, a series on sports, policing, & incarceration

Header graphic with chains at the top and bottom borders. The main text reads, "DeFIFA. Surveilling the Stadium: Digitality, Documentation, and Drones". On the left is cartoony digital art of a soccer stadium and a watchtower in the middle of the pitch, playing on the idea of a stadium looking like a panopticon prison.

Surveilling the Stadium: Digitality, Documentation, & Drones

Part V of DeFIFA, a series on sports, policing, & incarceration

Header graphic with chains at the top and bottom borders. The main text reads, "DeFIFA: Security Theater at the Stadium's Border". On the left is cartoony digital art of a walk-through metal detector, with a soccer ball being hurled through it, playing on the fact that the metal detector looks similar to the frame of a goal.

Security Theater at the Stadium’s Border

Part IV of DeFIFA, a series on sports, policing, & incarceration

Header graphic with chains at the top and bottom borders. The main text reads, "De-FIFA: Colonialism, Racism, Misogyny, and Violence in the Stadium Zone". On the right is digital art of a foot crushing a soccer ball on top of a depictions of Seattle's Chinatown-International District with the iconic Chinatown red gate, and the words "Defend the CID"

Colonialism, Racism, Misogyny, and Violence in the Stadium Zone

Part III of DeFIFA, a series on sports, policing, & incarceration

Header graphic with chains at the top and bottom borders. The main text reads, "De-FIFA. Seattle and the Men's World Cup: A Carceral Juggernaut". Cartoony digital art on the sides shows a pair of handcuffs with soccer balls in the holes, and Seattle's Space Needle off in the distance

Seattle and the Men’s World Cup: A Carceral Juggernaut

Part II of DeFIFA, a series on sports, policing, & incarceration

Header graphic with chains at the top and bottom borders and a soccer ball. The main text reads, "De-FIFA: Sports, Policing, and Incarceration at the 2026 Men's World Cup in Seattle". The soccer ball says "FIFA" in the center and is surrounded by other words describing the impacts of the World Cup: corporate greed and displacement, increased policing and surveillance, ICE and human rights violations, more sweeps and waste of public funds, and labor exploitation

DeFIFA: Sports, Policing, and Incarceration at the Men’s World Cup in Seattle

Part I of a new series