Ep. 217: How Sport Protects Abusers

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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**TW: This episode contains content about domestic violence and sexual assault** In this episode, Shireen Ahmed, Brenda Elsey and Jessica Luther start the show with their most memorable first day of school moments. For the main topic, they discuss how Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse (DVSA) reports are handled (and ignored) in sports. They talk about the various actions and in-actions taken by professional leagues and individual organizations to address DVSA reports, which has oftentimes protected the abusers. They also discuss the challenges journalists face in properly reporting on DVSA in sport and getting these stories published in the mainstream media. Following this discussion is a tease of Shireen's interview with Kelly Lindsey, former coach of the Afghanistan Women's National Football Team, on how soccer was used in recent weeks to get Afghan athletes to safety. Next, they burn more sports garbage in the Burn Pile. Then, they celebrate those shining light, including Torchbearers of the Week, the Canada National Women's Hockey Team who won Gold at the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship! With a dramatic overtime goal by Marie-Philip Poulin, Canada beat Team USA 3-2. Lastly, they wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and they they're watching this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out 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: https://www.bonfire.com/store/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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0:00.0	Welcome to this week of and I'm joined you out and this week of Burn It All Down, the Feminist
0:12.6	Sports Podcast you need.
0:14.6	I'm Shereen and I'm joined by Brenda and Jessica and this week will be focusing on professional
0:19.9	sports leagues and domestic violence
0:21.8	and sexual assault policies that they may or may not have. Plus, later this week in interview
0:27.6	drops with Coach Kelly Lindsay of the Afghanistan Women's National Football Team. Of course,
0:33.2	we have the burn pile and our torch bears of the week. But before we start these intense topics, I would like to ask, my dear friends, this is
0:44.1	week school and this month school has started for many of us.
0:47.8	So these two amazing scholars, school is a big part of their life.
0:53.6	So let's talk about a great memory from a first day of
0:57.4	school or not a great time. Just tell me about a first day memory. I don't know if I have a
1:06.1	specific one. I was really trying to think. I feel like I don't have specific memories of so much of my life,
1:11.4	which is maybe its own thing. But what I do remember is that I loved the first day of school,
1:17.5	like so much. Like I loved, I mean, I know this is a big thing for Brent, but like I liked all
1:22.5	the school supplies and gathering them together and putting, like, I was the dork. This will make so much sense to you all.
1:29.9	Like, when you had to put book covers on books, the precision of that work was so I loved it.
1:37.1	Like, I just loved all that kind of stuff around school starting. And I just liked school.
1:41.6	Like, I, to this day, enjoy learning. I don't always, didn't always
1:45.8	love the dynamics of being in a school with other children, but I definitely loved going back to
1:51.7	school. Brian? I've never left school. I've never left school. I'm still in school. And I remember
2:00.5	someone telling me once I got my, you know, tender,
2:04.7	my tender track job, my gender job.
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