UPDATE: Kristin Duquette and Lacey Henderson on Disability and Sport and 2020/21 Paralympic Games

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week, Burn It All Down is featuring conversations about the 2020/21 Tokyo Paralympic Games, which start Tuesday August 24. This episode is re-airing two interviews from September 2020, with updates at the end. Jessica talks with Kristen Duquette, disability advocate and a 5x American Paralympic record holder and Lacey Henderson, a track and field Paralympian and host of the podcast Picked Last In Gym Class. They discuss their athletic journeys, disability in sports and impact of COVID-19. Following these interviews, you'll hear updates from Kristin and Lacey regarding the Tokyo 2020/21 Olympics. 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'll suck you up, and I'll spend it all down. Today,
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn it All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. Jessica here. I'd like to welcome you to Paralympics Week on Burn It All Down. The Paralympics start tomorrow, Tuesday, August 24th, and continue through September 5th.
0:22.3	Today, we have my interviews from last year with para-athletes Kristen Duquette and Lacey Henderson.
0:27.1	Stick around to the end for updates from both of them. Tomorrow, on our regular weekly episode,
0:32.2	Amira Brenda Lindsay and I have a discussion about the Paralympics that includes a cameo from Brenda's
0:36.3	sister, and we preview sports and athletes from the Paralympics that includes a cameo from Brenda's sister, and we preview
0:37.6	sports and athletes from the Paralympics that you will want to watch. Wednesday, we're re-upping
0:42.3	Amira's interview from 2018 with Dr. Jonna Belanger about disability awareness and sport and how
0:48.0	athletes with varying disabilities are grouped for Paralympic competition. On Thursday, Amira talks
0:53.0	to Motoko Rich, the New York Times Tokyo Bureau Chief
0:55.9	about what is happening on the ground there,
0:58.1	and we'll have additional coverage in the coming days.
1:00.7	As always, burn on, not out.
1:08.1	Okay, first, tell me who you are and what you do.
1:12.5	Hi, thank you so much for having me on.
1:15.9	I'm Kristen Duquette.
1:18.1	I don't know where to begin because I feel like I have lived about five different lives at this point.
1:24.3	Kristen Duquette is a former Team USA swimmer for the Paralympic League.
1:28.5	She's a former Obama appointee who now works in the federal government.
1:32.0	She's also a student at the Naval Postgraduate School for Homeland Defense and Security.
1:36.3	And definitely disability rights advocate nationwide and internationally also.
1:42.7	Well, that does sound like five lifetimes worth of things.
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