"Sports are not just about sports. They encompass a battleground for determining how gender manifests in the world, how women and girls can use their bodies, and who can access self-determination."
~ Jessica Wilkerson
"Lady Vols Country"
https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-121-summer-2023/lady-vols-country
"But in the country north of Knoxville, Riot Grrrl, zines, and coffeeshops did not exist. Instead, there was full-on cultural backlash that never appeared as backlash so much as a continuation of how things had always been—a man’s world, and we were living in it. Adults around us communicated that feminism of whatever wave was dangerous, was a joke, was ridiculous, with one glaring exception that could never be identified as such: the success of Pat Summitt as head coach of the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers basketball team."
~ Jessica Wilkerson
"Lady Vols Country"
https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-121-summer-2023/lady-vols-country
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