If Black athletes do not endure the unfairness and racism they encounter, and instead stand up for themselves, they are deemed uncooperative, lazy, or selfish. By Amelia Ali As a Division 1 athlete, I have never wanted sports to define me. As much as I loved my team, and the privilege of being able to...
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Hysteria By Any Other Name: How Media Rely On The Trope Of Emotional Womanhood
Complicit and complacent media change women’s narratives with a series of techniques and alter the way we internalize their stories. Content Warning: mentions of sexual assault By Leslie Kay Jones, PhD On Jan. 15th, 2018, US Olympic Gymnast Simone Biles tweeted with the hashtag #MeToo, naming herself as one of over 250 survivors of sexual...
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Cardi B. Reminds Us That Respectability Politics Won’t Save Black People
In a recent Instagram post, singer/songwriter Cardi B. clapped back at the haters who leave comments under her posts about reality TV being the reason black people are murdered. She says, “Stop trying to blame reality TV to try to show what’s wrong with [minorities/ black people]. “What’s wrong with us” has nothing to do with us,...
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Black Girls Are Still Magic, Even When They Fail
Winning is cool. But, we must learn to exalt the magic of black girls when they come up short, misstep, or fail. The communal forces behind the sky full of confetti pouring on Simone Biles and Simone Manuel, two black women who performed extraordinarily in their respective sports fields during the summer Olympic games staged...
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Dipa Karmakar, India’s First Female Olympic Gymnast, Wows Vault Crowd in Rio
At the Olympic women’s vault Sunday, most in Rio saw it as a foregone conclusion that American gymnast Simone Biles would win. Biles did indeed claim the gold, but the first person to finish out of the medals, Dipa Karmakar, also deserves acknowledgement. Karmakar, from India, finished with a score of 15.066, .15 back of the bronze medal....