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Side Effects Black Girl Gymnasts (with Amira Rose Davis)

Smart Funny & Black Productions

Amanda Seales

Kids & Family, Performing Arts, Arts, Education For Kids, Visual Arts

4.89.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week we talk to Amira Rose Davis, host of American Prodigies season 3 about documenting the nuanced experience of being at the intersection of race, gender, and sports.
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0:56.9

Welcome to another edition of Small Doses. I'm just going to let y'all know now. This is

1:11.7

a niche episode. Okay, this is a niche episode. We're going to be talking about very specific

1:16.4

things related to gymnastics. That is a very big part of the conversation. I am very excited

1:23.5

to have I don't get it's like when a star-worst person meets another star-worst person and

1:26.8

you can have real conversations about tattoos. That's how I feel about this conversation. With

1:32.1

our guest today, Amira Rose Davis is a host of the prodigies podcast and she is an assistant

1:38.3

professor of history at Penn State. Amira, welcome to the show.

1:42.9

Yeah, happy to be here.

1:45.1

So okay, the reason I said we're going to be talking about gymnastics is because I know

1:49.9

last season on your podcast, you had a whole Gabby Douglas moment and to my knowledge, just

1:57.1

correct me if I'm wrong, next season is going to be dedicated to the whole season is about

2:01.0

black.

2:02.0

Yeah, well, so women gymnasts or just. Yeah, it's just, well, I talk about other things,

2:06.6

but it really centers on black girls and gymnastics. So the last two seasons of American prodigies

2:11.3

were host about other people and they did one on Freddie and do one on kangaroo junior.

2:18.2

And so back, I don't know, like a year ago, I was like, bet. So like, obviously, I'm going

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