Britni de la Cretaz
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Boston, MA, United States
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The winningest team in pro football history has been overlooked
The long history of women’s football in the U.S. almost certainly will surprise you. → Read More
NSWL and women's soccer abuse scandal is about more than sexism
NSWL and women's soccer abuse scandal is about more than sexism. America's LGBTQ friendly sports leagues and teams are still struggling with homophobia. → Read More
Trump's Olympics soccer tirade targets U.S. Canada and Sweden would like a word.
Canada vs. Sweden: Trump's Tokyo Olympics women's soccer tirade targets America and Megan Rapinoe. The gold medal contenders would like a word. → Read More
The Olympics’ First-Ever Non-Binary Athletes Have Already Been Misgendered
Broadcasters who regularly share obscure facts about athletes are getting their pronouns wrong. → Read More
Norway's beach handball protest is about a lot more than bikinis
Perhaps collective outrage will spur a demand for women to be able to decide what they want to wear. Or perhaps we are doomed to have this conversation every year. → Read More
Welcome to the Queerest Olympics Ever
Here are the openly LGBTQ Team USA Olympic athletes competing in Tokyo. → Read More
Elliot Page Appeared On Oprah To Protect Trans Rights
"Because there is such an attack on trans health care right now, when already there is such a lack of access or trans people who don't even want to go to the doctor," he explained, referring to the all-out legislative assault on trans people in the U.S. The stakes for trans people in the United States are too high right now for Page to feel like he had a choice in the matter: “How do you not use… → Read More
How Caitlyn Jenner As Governor Will Hurt Trans People
Caitlyn Jenner’s community — her entire identity — is under attack from her own party. And she has stayed silent throughout it. → Read More
Fellas, Is It Gay To Be Immune From A Deadly Virus?
This vaccine reluctance among men echoes other patterns we’ve seen throughout the pandemic. Men are also less likely to wear masks, which one study found was related to perceived “illusions of vulnerability” created by the act of masking up. They are also less likely to adhere to social distancing recommendations. → Read More
Elliot Page TIME Magazine Story Is Missing Trans Joy
We learn so little about who Page is as a person in this profile, which centres so prominently on his transition, dysphoria, and The Issues facing the trans community. → Read More
Elliot Page TIME Magazine Story Is Missing Trans Joy
We learn so little about who Page is as a person in this profile, which centers so prominently on his transition, dysphoria, and The Issues facing the trans community. → Read More
Why Can't WNBA Broadcasters Get the Players’ Names Right?
There are only 144 names to learn and the teams provide pronunciation guides. And yet. → Read More
What Is Gender Policy Council? Biden Plan To Help Women
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported on Biden's plan to revitalize the idea of having a council that's focused specifically on issues of gender equity, something that was the brainchild of Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady. → Read More
Biden Rejects $50,000 Student Debt Proposal Town Hall
During the Town Hall, Biden was asked “what he will do” to make $50,000 in loan forgiveness happen. “I will not make that happen,” he responded. Biden’s cited reasoning was that he did not think that students who went to private universities like “Harvard and Yale and Penn” should have their debt forgiven, and their money should be used to “provide for early education for young children who come… → Read More
Serena Williams Is The GOAT. Why Is That So Hard For Some People To Say?
With all her accolades and accomplishments, it remains baffling that Williams continues to be left out of conversations around the greatest athletes. Imagine praising Tom Brady when Serena Williams is right there, literally performing at the same time the (fairly boring) Super Bowl was going on. → Read More
After Countless High-Profile Abuse Scandals, Gymnastics Is Entering A New Era Of Joy
“College gymnasts have been taking a less fusty approach to floor music and dance for years… But because elite, Olympic-level gymnastics was the only type of gymnastics getting covered in a serious, sustained way, the more so-called ‘traditional’ and ‘uptight’ performance style was the one that people ended up associating with the sport.” → Read More
Serena Williams Is The GOAT. Why Is That So Hard For Some People To Say?
With all her accolades and accomplishments, it remains baffling that Williams continues to be left out of conversations around the greatest athletes. Imagine praising Tom Brady when Serena Williams is right there, literally performing at the same time the (fairly boring) Super Bowl was going on. → Read More
After Countless High-Profile Abuse Scandals, Gymnastics Is Entering A New Era Of Joy
“College gymnasts have been taking a less fusty approach to floor music and dance for years… But because elite, Olympic-level gymnastics was the only type of gymnastics getting covered in a serious, sustained way, the more so-called ‘traditional’ and ‘uptight’ performance style was the one that people ended up associating with the sport.” → Read More
Dalit Women In India Are Facing A Sexual Violence Epidemic — & Fighting Back
In India, women and girls from the Dalit community experience incredibly high rates of sexual violence. India’s caste system, which functions like a social hierarchy, imposes positionality at birth and has been in place for thousands of years. Dalits are at the bottom, outside the caste hierarchy, leading to discrimination at the intersections of caste, class, and gender. → Read More
Biden Is Already Trying To Protect Trans Rights — & He Woke Up All The Twitter TERFs
On Thursday, trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), also known as “gender critical feminists,” started the hashtag #BidenErasedWomen on Twitter to express their outrage at the president for offering protection to trans people and, in particular, trans women and girls. Attacking trans women is, of course, the cornerstone of gender-critical feminism (of which J.K. Rowling is the most… → Read More