Ep 103: Trolling women in sport twitter, MLB's Renee Tirado, and Minnesota Lynx's Cheryl Reeve

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This week, Lindsay, Brenda, Jessica, and Shireen discuss the persistent bullying of women who write on sport in social media(2:16), Amira Rose Davis interviews interviews Major League Baseball’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Renee Tirado, about her work to bring women into baseball’s front office and make the sport more inclusive to Black and Brown fans, players, and communities (20:39), and Lindsay Gibbs chats with Minnesota Lynx's head coach Cheryl Reeve on the challenges the team has faced, WNBA draft and state of women in sport (39:40) Finally, we have the Burn Pile (1:01:26)),BAWOTW (101:54), and What's Good (109:23). To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down For more info check our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.2	Welcome to this week's episode of Burn It All Down.
1:01.6	It's the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:12.1	On this week's panel, we have the unsinkable optimist Shereen Ahmed, freelance sports writer in Toronto, Canada, the fiery badass Jessica Luther, independent writer,
1:17.9	an author of unsportsmanlike conduct, college football, and the politics of rape in Austin, Texas.
1:25.0	The brilliant wordsmith, Lindsay Gibbs, sports writer at Think Progress in D.C., and I'm Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University in the Hudson Valley, New York.
1:30.3	Before we start, I would like to thank our patrons for their generous support and to remind all of you about our ongoing Patreon campaign.
1:38.3	You can pledge a certain amount monthly and basically you become an official patron of the podcast, which helps us to pay for
1:45.2	production costs so that we can deliver this every week. We are so grateful to everyone who
1:51.2	has contributed. This week, we are going to ruminate on trolling and social media, particularly
1:57.8	for women, people of color and and LGBTQ, public figures in sport.
2:02.9	We have two fabulous interviews. Amira talks to Major League Baseball's chief diversity and
2:09.7	inclusion officer Renee Tirado about her work to bring women into baseball's front offices
2:15.7	and to make the sport more inclusive to black and brown
2:19.2	fans, players, and communities. And Lindsay interviews Minnesota Lynx's head coach Cheryl Reeve
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