Serena Williams & The Policing Of Anger

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week we speak to Soraya Chemaly, author of the new book “Rage Becomes Her” about Serena Williams, Title IX, and how our society monitors women’s anger, particularly black women. We also have ‘Choice Words’ about the Serena-Naomi Osaka match as well as the response from some umpires in the aftermath. We got ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to Kenny Stills and a racist cartoonist, ‘Kaepernick Watch’ and more. Soraya Chemaly Twitter: @schemaly https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/11/serena-williams-angry-soraya-chemaly-women-should-unleash-rage Soraya's Rage Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/schemaly/playlist/3ixT7ZzQOrb234jLesuYp5?si=Svj_xjsgS8i9M9pbuyhTWA Zirin, What Tennis Umpires Need to Learn About Race and Gender in Sports: Serena Williams Gets Treated Like No One Else http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-what-tennis-umpires-need-to-learn-20180913-story.html — http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE) — Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | Big Pimpin’ - Tha Dogg Pound | Fuck You - Lily Allen | Got To Have It - Kanye West & Jay-Z | Hootie Hoo - Outkast | Thank Youse - Del the Funky Homosapien | Tell Me When To Go - Too-Short | One Love - Nas | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:19.4	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. This week, we are speaking to the author of the new book, Rage Becomes Her, Saraya Chimali. And we're speaking to her, of course, about Serena Williams and everything that went down at the U.S. Open last week. Also, I've got my own choice words about all things Serena and what happened in her match against Naomi
1:44.8	Osaka.
1:45.7	I've also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass Down Awards and Colin Kaepernick watch.
1:51.6	But first, let's go to Soraya Shamali and talk about her new book, Rage Becomes Her.
2:01.0	So Rage Becomes Her, Why This Book and Why Not? her. So rage becomes her.
2:03.1	Why this book and why now?
2:05.1	Why did you write this?
2:07.1	I wrote it as an almost state of the union for how women move through the stages of their lives in an atmosphere that's often quite hostile
2:19.8	and that elicit negative emotional responses that are not particularly welcome,
2:26.6	and that affects our personal lives, our professional lives, and our politics.
2:31.9	And so, honestly, anger became the vehicle through which to talk about those issues
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