Ep. 219: All About Athleisure

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Burn It All Down Brenda Elsey, Amira Rose Davis and Jessica Luther start the show with their favorite Met Gala looks. Then, prompted by the documentary LulaRich, they take a deep dive into the world of athleisure. They discuss the evolution of the athletic wear fashion, how multilevel marketing often (MLM) targets working class women with false promises, the politics of who gets to wear athleisure and how these apparel companies still have a long way to go in providing safe and fair working conditions. Following this discussion, there's a preview of Amira's interview with Dave Zirin about his new book “The Kaepernick Effect." Then, they burn the garbage in sports this week on the Burn Pile. Next, they celebrate those changing sports for the better, including Torchbearers of the Week, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols, for sharing their stories and testifying against Larry Nassar before the Senate. Then the wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports 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 I'm playing with your babies to the scream and shout oh yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to this week of Burn It All Down.
0:12.4	It's the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:14.8	I'm Brenda and today I'm joined by Jessica and Amira and we are going to talk about
0:20.6	athleisure, the politics of it,
0:24.0	MLM, multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes, nebulous, and their relationship with sports.
0:33.0	Then we're going to burn some things that really irritated us, inflamed us, hurt us in sports,
0:39.1	and celebrate the people who are doing the work to change it.
0:42.7	Before we get into all that, this week was pretty fun with the Met Gala.
0:49.0	A lot of people had different ways to see themselves in it or to comment on it. Jessica, did anything strike
0:57.0	you in particular? My favorite was Iman. She showed up in this amazing, was it feathers? Is that like
1:04.7	what it was made out of? And it was like a huge halo around her head and then a skirt and it was all
1:09.3	gold. It came right from the sun.
1:11.1	She looked like the sun. She looked like the sun. Like you should just go look at it right now.
1:16.3	Like I couldn't look away from it. It is just spectacular. And so that was absolutely my favorite
1:22.9	thing from the Met Gala. How does a human being look like that? It was incredible.
1:28.5	It was incredible. For me, a lot of people were like jiffing their birth year. Did you do that,
1:34.0	Jess? Did you like. I did do it after you told me to. And I'm like, full on 80s aerobics
1:39.9	outfits. And then like there was the gift of Whitney Houston and the I Want to Dance
1:46.3	With Somebody video which is my favorite song by Whitney Houston so I'll take that one.
1:52.9	Mine was Abba leisure suits when I put that up. It was like Ava in white pants. And then they had...
2:01.6	They had these like colorful button-up things or whatever.
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