Search

Home > Your Call > Athletes, too: How will the sports world tackle sexual assault?
Podcast: Your Call
Episode:

Athletes, too: How will the sports world tackle sexual assault?
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration:
Publish Date: 2018-04-18 03:00:00
Description: On this edition of Your Call, we’ll speak with a sports journalist and athletes about how the #metoo movement has rocked the sports world. Gymnasts, swimmers, basketball players – athletes across the sports world – have come forward with revelations about sexual assault and abuse they have suffered over the course of their careers. What institutions and practices in the sports world protect perpetrators? And how can those power structures be dismantled? Guests: Jessica Luther, freelance journalist and writer covering sports and culture, co-host of the feminist sports podcast "Burn It All Down," and author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape Raquel “Pretty Beast” Miller, undefeated pro boxer, 2012 USA Boxing National Champion, co-founder of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Ladies In Power Imani McGee-Stafford, center for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, abuse survivor, poet, and mental health advocate Jessica Luther will participate in a conversation on
Total Play: 0

Some more Podcasts by KALW

100+ Episodes
Out in the B .. 4    
800+ Episodes
Crosscurrent ..     2
70+ Episodes
Uncuffed