Ep 95: WoSo, Interviews w/ Katie Barnes on transphobia, & Susan Shepard on sex-trafficking + sport

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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On this week’s show, we start with a discussion about Zion Williamson and how NCAA exploits athlete. [3:01] First up. Brenda, Amira, Shireen, and Jessica discuss Women's Soccer and how its struggles continue. [9:55] Jessica interviews Katie Barnes of espnW about Martina Navratilova’s op-ed arguing against the inclusion of trans athletes in sport, the sexism underlying this argument, and the harm these arguments do, especially to trans kids. [28:30] Then Lindsay talks with journalist Susan Elizabeth Shepard to get a media literacy lesson related to the news that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged on two counts of soliciting prostitution in a sex trafficking-related bust at massage parlors in Florida. [44:43] Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, [58:20] our Bad Ass Woman of the Week, starring Joni Taylor Head Coach of University of Georgia women’s basketball, [1:09:20] and what is good in our worlds. [1:11:49] 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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1:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of Burn It All Down.
1:02.8	It's the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:07.6	I'm Shereen Ahmed, freelance sports writer, sports activist in Toronto, Canada. And on this week's panel, we have the fiery and brilliant, Amira Rose Davis,
1:12.7	assistant professor of history and women's gender and sexuality studies at Penn State.
1:17.3	We have all-round badass Jessica Luther, independent writer, general slayer, and author of unsportsman
1:24.0	like conduct, college football and the politics of rape in Austin, Texas.
1:29.2	Brenda Elsie, Associate Professor of History and Undeniable Genius at Hofstra University in Long Island,
1:35.1	New York. We have a great episode this week with two very important interviews. After we discussed
1:42.5	women's soccer and the gong show that is often seen in the
1:46.1	football world, Jessica speaks with ESPNW reporter Katie Barnes about Martina Navratilova's op-ed.
1:54.4	And then Lindsay will speak with Susan Elizabeth Shepard and the news around New England Patriots owner Robert
2:00.5	Kraft.
2:01.6	Before we start, I would like to thank our patrons for the generous support.
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