Interview: Summer-Solstice Thomas, on Gendered Violence in the NCAA

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode Jessica Luther talks to Summer-Solstice Thomas about Thomas’s advocacy to get the NCAA to care about gendered violence, specifically in terms of harmful coaches who sexually abuse their athletes. They talk about Thomas’s time as a college athlete, how she came to care about this issue and what she hopes changes in the future. 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.
0:02.3	And I'll be it up and I'll be
0:05.0	with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:10.1	Oh, yeah.
0:10.1	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.9	Jessica here.
0:15.1	A heads up.
0:15.7	In this interview, we will be discussing gendered violence and sexual abuse.
0:20.1	I'm joined today by Summer Solstice Thomas, a scientific researcher who is interested in the way the environment affects public health.
0:27.5	But that's not why she's here today.
0:30.3	Summer, you were, you are a track and field athlete?
0:34.8	I'd like to start there.
0:36.1	I always like starting with people's relationship
0:38.6	to sport. So when did you get started in sports? What events did you do in track and field?
0:44.4	So as a little kid, I always just had a ton of energy and sports were my happy place and outlet.
0:49.1	And I was super privileged that my parents kind of let me do every sport imaginable. So I played like soccer and
0:55.1	boys lacrosse and water polo and volleyball and basketball. And mostly just like enjoyed moving
1:00.2	my body in the company of good people. And I never really thought it would go anywhere beyond
1:06.1	like low stakes recreation until I was actually scouted by the coach I wrote about in my article that we're
1:12.5	going to talk about. He scouted me when I was a sophomore in high school and I was doing track and
1:17.6	field at that time only really to stay in shape for soccer. Yeah, but I was I was tall and gangly and the high
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