Interview: Angel Flores, Powerlifter and Queer Eye Star on Sport as a Human Right

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode Jessica Luther interviews Angel Flores, powerlifter and recent star on Netflix's Queer Eye. They talk about about Angel's life-long connection to sport, how she got into powerlifting, as well as competing in the new MX division in powerlifting and her conflicted feelings about it. They also discuss her experience on Queer Eye, what she wants to say to trans youth in this moment and why sport is a human right that all people should have equal access too. 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/ Use the code FLAMES2022 for 22% off your order in the month of January. 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 burn it all down. I couldn't be more than I'm playing with your babies to the screaming show. Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. Jessica here. I couldn't be more excited to welcome Angel Flores to the show. If you, like me, are a fan of Queer Eye on Netflix, then you probably don't
0:22.4	need me to introduce her. But for those of you who haven't seen the latest season of Queer Eye,
0:26.8	which takes place here in Austin, Texas, where listeners know I live, episode two focuses
0:32.7	on Angel, a trans power lifter. Welcome Angel to Burn It All down. Hi, it's so amazing to get to talk to you
0:40.1	today. I wish you guys could see how big my smile is. So we're obviously a sports podcast. So I wanted to
0:48.2	start with your relationship to sports. And if I'm remembering correctly from the episode,
0:53.9	you've had a long, like sports
0:55.8	has been part of your life, your whole life, correct? Absolutely. Absolutely. So it was almost
1:01.1	from birth that my dad kind of decided like, you know what, this kid is going to play everything
1:06.7	that I can get them to play. So I was, I started sports, oh, four years old.
1:16.7	Wow.
1:17.5	Yeah, I was raised through Catholic school my entire life.
1:20.1	So the Catholic youth sports organization or CYO or whatever it's called down there,
1:26.1	they put on a lot of, um, like small time
1:28.5	stuff for especially younger kids. Um, and my dad was on top of it, putting me in everything that
1:33.2	he could. Um, so I played everything ranging from t-ball to soccer to basketball to
1:38.8	like everything, um, up until I was about 10. Um, past that, I found that I kind of needed to find a niche, right?
1:50.0	I definitely needed to find my sport.
1:54.1	So going into high school, I hit a growth spurt.
1:57.2	I grew up a little bit.
1:58.2	I realized, oh, I could probably do well in football.
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