by admin | Oct 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. From Thuc Nhi Nguyen: Princess Lang pressed send on her innocent tweet. If she got 50 likes on this simple, seven-second video clip of her dancing, the junior majoring in musical theater at USC would...
by admin | Feb 28, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
The irreconcilable disconnect between the Cowboys paying $2.4 million to settle voyeurism allegations and concluding that no wrongdoing occurred compels a much closer look at the situation. Content to close the books on the matter (and to accept the team’s...
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 | Oct 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
There were, most appallingly, the women. By the dozens over the years. Such as some members of the Washington Football Team’s cheerleading squad, who were included in lewd videos secretly produced without their knowledge, videos two former team employees said were...
by admin | Jul 4, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Sydney McLaughlin, who obliterated the women’s 400m hurdles world record at the US Olympic trials. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the NFL, who are still cutting our women’s voices in the...
by admin | Jun 28, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
The email showed up at 3:29 p.m. on a Friday in February. In 31 minutes, there would be an “Important Meeting”—the only two words in the subject line of a Washington Football Team executive’s email. Candess Correll decided she wouldn’t be joining the Zoom call. She...
by admin | Mar 25, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Support for Snyder’s purchase comes as the N.F.L.’s investigation into sexual harassment claims made against former Washington Football Team executives nears an end. Commissioner Roger Goodell may address the findings collected by Beth Wilkinson, a Washington-based...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Last month the Washington Football Team settled claims brought by members of the all-female cheerleading squad, who alleged among other things that high-level team executives passed around a lewd video of the cheerleaders. Now the team is going in a...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Twenty former employees of the Washington Football Team who say they witnessed or endured sexual harassment by team executives demanded Thursday that the NFL make public its investigation into the team’s workplace. The letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell is part of a...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Several cheerleaders maintain they’re collateral damage in the team’s efforts to move on from a variety of controversies and scandals. They also detailed a culture of being underpaid and undervalued while the team made big bucks off their appearances. Read...
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