Interview: Jenn McClearen, author of "Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC"

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week Jessica Luther interviews media scholar Dr. Jenn McClearen about her book "Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC." They discuss the conflict of the representation of women in the UFC with the exploitation that those same women face in the sport. They also talk about the complicated effort to unionize UFC fighters and how to love women's sport and the UFC by illuminating the ways they needs to change. 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	And I'll suck you up and I'm very excited you out.
0:04.4	And I'll play with your babies to the screaming show.
0:08.3	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need, Jessica here today.
0:14.4	Before we get into the interview, which I'm very excited about, I wanted to remind all of our listeners that we'll be returning to regular programming
0:20.9	in July. In the meantime, we hope you all are enjoying this first month of summer. Today, I am very
0:27.5	excited to welcome my friend, Dr. Jen McClaren, to Burn It All Down. Jen, who are you? And what do you do?
0:34.9	Hi, thank you so much for having me.
0:37.9	I am thrilled to be on Burn It All Down.
0:40.5	I am a huge fan.
0:42.2	So I am an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Radio Television Film.
0:50.1	And you have recently written a book.
0:52.9	And I recently wrote a book called Fighting Visibility,
0:56.0	Sports Media, and Female Athletes in the UFC, which is what I'm here to talk about today.
1:00.4	Yes. But before we actually get into the book, I wanted to ask you a little, I want to hear a little
1:05.5	bit about your relationship to sports. I love to ask people this. So did you or do you play sports? Are you a
1:12.9	big sports fan? How would you describe your relationship to sports? That's a really interesting
1:18.5	question because I feel like as an academic who studies sports media, I feel like a lot of us
1:26.3	start out with these childhood stories of sports and how we became fans at a young age, how it shaped our identity, how it created connections with our communities and our families.
1:37.0	And I've been in a lot of situations where I'm around other sports media scholars or sports scholars in general. And that generally seems to be the origin
1:46.2	story. For me, I was loosely interested in sports as a kid and growing up. And I would never have
1:53.2	described myself a fan until later in life. And the way that I came to sports and then also
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