Categories: RepresentationSEW

‘We have to be more than athletes’: inside the women’s US soccer league

The women’s locker room is supposed to be a safe space. And yet its feeble record for warding off unwanted attention is underscored time and again in TV tropes and class-action lawsuits. It goes a long way to explaining why, despite the abundance of fly-on-the-wall sports documentaries, you’d be hard-pressed to name one that follows a women’s team as closely and earns enough trust to linger.

In so many ways director Arlene Nelson is breaking the mold with Angel City, a three-part HBO Sports doc that goes inside the same-named LA franchise pushing for change on and off the pitch. Read More

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