Ep 165: Political Backlash in Sports to Black Lives Matter, and an Interview with Olga Trujillo

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Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week, Brenda, Jessica, Amira, and Lindsay discuss the political backlash to to the ongoing Black Lives Matter athlete activism [6:47]. After that, Brenda interviews Mexican sports journalist Olga Trujillo about the Mexican Women's Football League [32:23]. Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile [49:55], the Bad Ass Woman of the Week segment, starring Scrap Yard Fast Pitch Softball [1:00:09], and what is good in our worlds [1:02:39]. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com 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 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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0:46.4	Our heartfelt wishes of health and safety go out to the world right now facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
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0:59.8	health care. I'm Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History at Hofster University, and I'm joined
1:05.7	by my co-hosts, the brilliant Dr. Amira Rose Davis, superstar assistant professor of history and African-American
1:12.3	Studies at Penn State, the whipsmart Lindsay Gibbs, sports reporter and founder of the
1:17.3	amazing newsletter on women's sports power plays. She's in D.C. and the incredible Jessica
1:23.2	Luther, independent sports writer in Austin, Texas, and co-author of the now actually real book,
1:29.9	Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back.
1:32.7	On this week's show, we take a hard look at the political backlash against Black Lives Matter in sports,
1:38.7	and I interview Olga Trujillo of Dioas Alumpikas and Las Capitanas, who's going to talk about the founding of
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