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It’s the first Summer Olympics since #MeToo — and athletes are speaking out. Survivors say it’s ‘a reckoning.’

by admin | Jul 30, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW

Simone Biles did not just go to Tokyo to compete. In an April interview with NBC, she said she’d decided to participate in her second Olympic Games, at 24, because she wanted to hold gymnastics leaders accountable. Biles is the only victim of Larry Nassar...

Larry Nassar Is in Prison, But Many Young Athletes Are Still at Risk. Here’s How We Can Better Protect Them From Sexual Abuse

by admin | Jul 27, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice released a report about the FBI’s investigation into former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar that spotlighted what survivors like me have known to be true: the entire system is failing athletes.  The FBI failed to...

July 12 – July 18, Highlights and Lowlights

by admin | Jul 18, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights

? This week our highlight goes to Melanie Newman, Sarah Langs, Alanna Rizzo, and Heidi Watney, who will become the first all female team to call a Major League Baseball broadcast. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the FBI who botched...

Inspector General Says F.B.I. Botched Nassar Abuse Investigation

by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW

The Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-awaited report on Wednesday that sharply criticized the F.B.I.’s handling of the sexual abuse case involving Lawrence G. Nassar, the former doctor for the U.S.A. Gymnastics national team and Michigan State...

Larry Nassar Survivors Hoped The John Geddert Case Would Bring Answers. Then Geddert Killed Himself.

by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW

John Geddert, the former USA Gymnastics coach, was found dead in February just hours after he had been charged with 24 felonies including human trafficking and sexual assault in relation to his decades of work with young gymnasts in his home state of Michigan....
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