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Podcast: On The Issues With Michele Goodwin
Episode: Fifteen Minutes of Feminism: The Olympics—An Uneven Playing Field? (with Ria Tabacco Mar)
Description: The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games have been rife with controversy—from rulings targeting Black athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson, to COVID protests taking place just outside the stadium, to transphobia directed at the first openly trans athletes to ever compete on this highest international stage. And what about protecting mental health and threats against Simone Biles? Is the Olympics an uneven playing field?Helping us to unpack this and more is a very special guest: Ria Tabacco Mar, director of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where sh...