by admin | Feb 6, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to the WNBA who just got a $75 million investment from some high profile investors. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Dan Snyder who was once again in the news for how he has treated female staff as they...
by admin | Feb 4, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
A former employee of Washington’s NFL team told members of Congress on Thursday that owner Daniel Snyder harassed her at a team dinner, putting his hand on her thigh and pressing her toward his limo, to throw the team’s workplace culture back into the public eye a day...
by admin | Feb 3, 2022 | #MeToo, Guest Blogs, SEW
The Washington Football team has officially changed their name to the Commanders. This may be one step towards combating racism in the league, but this doesn’t outweigh the team’s history of inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment against women. It’s been more...
by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
Xiao, a Chinese-born and Melbourne-based artist, was disturbed that the plight of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai had slipped off the radar ahead of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. So she designed a T-shirt, and much to the dismay of Australian Open...
by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
Madelene Sagstrom knows why she did it. She knows why after more than 16 years of living with unimaginable emotional pain she decided to reveal to those closest to her that at the age of 7 she had been sexually abused by a male friend in her native Sweden. And why a...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
A top women’s handball team in Germany says it is sticking together after two hidden cameras were discovered in the players’ locker room earlier this week. According to TuS Metzingen, which competes in the Bundesliga, an individual has since been placed under urgent...
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
A Greek sailing coach has gone on trial in Athens accused of raping an 11-year-old girl, in a case that came to light when a gold medal-winning athlete spoke out about sexual abuse in sport. Coach Triantafyllos Apostolou appeared in court on Wednesday, almost 12 years...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Growing up in Maryland, I was raised as a fan of the team now called the Washington Football Team, and my parents have pictures of me as a baby in a burgundy-and-gold onesie. We watched games at family gatherings, and I know what it’s like to have that one uncle root...
by admin | Dec 23, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The latest statements from Peng Shuai, the tennis star who disappeared after accusing one of China’s most powerful men of sexual assault, have left the world wondering what to make of the athlete’s explosive claims. In an interview this past Sunday, Peng appeared to...
by admin | Dec 21, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who took to social media last month to accuse a former top Communist Party official of sexual assault insisted in an interview on Sunday that it had all been a misunderstanding. Peng, a former No. 1-ranked player in women’s...
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