Interview: Faith E. Briggs, Documentarian, Disrupting Narratives About Who is a Runner

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode, Jessica Luther talks with Faith E. Briggs, a documentary journalist, filmmaker and co-host of the Trail Ahead podcast, wants to make the outdoors a more inclusive place. They discuss how Faith went from competing in track to outdoor endurance running, her film series “Who is a Runner” that focuses on running communities of color, and her work around the intersection of environment, conservation, race and culture. 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 burn it all down, and I'm going to burn it all down, the feminist sports podcast you need. Jessica here. Today I'm joined by Faith E. Briggs, a documentary journalist, filmmaker, and co-host of the Trail Ahead podcast. She cares about the
0:22.1	environment, conservation, and making the outdoors a more diverse place. Welcome to burn it all down,
0:27.7	FAPE. Thank you. Thank you. Excited to be here. So we are obviously a sports podcast. So I'm going to
0:32.9	start there. How do you describe your relationship to sports? Yeah, it's such a good question because I, you know, I've been an athlete my whole life.
0:41.6	I ran track from, you know, seventh grade through college.
0:45.8	And I swam for a while when I was younger too.
0:50.1	It's funny because at the same time, I never played, like, team sports or really watched
0:56.4	many team sports.
0:57.7	Like, I watched a lot of track and swimming.
0:59.9	I went to my friends games, obviously.
1:02.7	So it's funny.
1:03.8	My partner now has two little kids, and one plays basketball, the other one plays soccer,
1:09.8	and there's constantly sports on in the
1:11.7	house, and they, like, quiz me about team names and things. Like, so it's just, it's a totally
1:17.9	different relationship, having been involved in sports and very much, um, identifying as,
1:22.9	like, a scholar athlete when I was younger and an athlete as a huge part of where my confidence has come from
1:29.3	and things over the years. So sports have always been a part of my life. I think it's funny because
1:34.2	they were never organized sports. So even sometimes I'm watching like basketball games, I'm like,
1:37.7	oh my God, if someone was throwing something at me, like I wouldn't want that. It's a very different
1:43.8	like physicality to it.
1:45.1	When you ran track, what did you run? Like, what was your distance?
1:47.8	I was a sprinter, mainly the 400. So, yeah, 400 and down, essentially. I was, like, very much trying to avoid anything up most of the time.
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