by admin | Dec 2, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Now the rest of the world needs to kick China off the sports circuit, too. The decision by the Women’s Tennis Association to forgo playing tournaments for the benefit of the Party-State is a prescient and powerful move that ought to trigger a broader moral blockade....
by admin | Dec 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The rowing season had already ended by the time the seven girls began drafting a letter that they hoped would get their coach fired. They’d spent years competing for the crew team affiliated with Walt Whitman High, one of the Washington region’s highest-achieving...
by admin | Nov 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Every now and then, China’s Communist insiders, in their frantic attempts to shield themselves against international criticism, inadvertently let slip what truly scares them. So it was recently in the tragic case of Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who disappeared...
by admin | Nov 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The auditorium on the first floor of North Carolina State’s James B. Hunt Jr. Library, with its rows of seats that rise to the back wall, can make for an intimidating platform. From that stage one day in April 2019, Brenda Tracy, a 5-foot-10 stranger to most in the...
by admin | Nov 24, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has become the world’s “most effective” human rights organization over its leadership on the Peng Shuai case and willingness to lose money to stand by its principles, said Kelley Eckels Currie, former U.S....
by admin | Nov 23, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Years before the National Women’s Soccer League erupted over allegations of systemic abuse, players on the Chicago Red Stars tried to speak up about their coach. Over and over, according to interviews and confidential records reviewed by The Washington Post, players...
by admin | Nov 22, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Almost as abruptly as she had vanished, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai reappeared in public view over the weekend. Since Friday evening, a steady stream of photos and videos purporting to show a smiling Peng going about her life in Beijing have surfaced on Twitter...
by admin | Nov 21, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Chinese tennis pro Peng Shuai took part in a video meeting with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach on Sunday, amid a global uproar following a Nov. 2 post on her social-media account accusing one of the Communist Party’s most senior retired leaders...
by admin | Nov 20, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
On a video call and exercise bike as she prepared for tennis practice on Friday, the American player Christina McHale shared memories of matches with her talented former doubles partner, Peng Shuai. “I hope she’s safe,” McHale said. The tennis community has continued...
by admin | Nov 20, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
CNN’s Will Ripley reports that the Women’s Tennis Association is threatening to end business in China unless Beijing can show definitive proof that star tennis player Peng Shuai is safe. Read More
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