"And while many girls played sports as I was coming of age—the years that people started to talk about the 'Title IX generation'—contradictions abounded.
The first time I realized that girls could get pregnant, I was in sixth grade. The girl was older than me, maybe in eighth grade. I heard about her before I saw her, and then there she was in the bathroom."
~ Jessica Wilkerson
"Lady Vols Country"
https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-121-summer-2023/lady-vols-country
"By the 1990s, Pat walked a line: She supported women’s access to sports, but she also publicly embraced family values politics, separating herself from feminist movements. She spent the entirety of her career in the thick Bible Belt of East Tennessee, navigating white evangelical politics and preaching personal responsibility. But the bodies on the court suggested something else entirely; they suggested choices, access to birth control and abortion, and knowledge about women’s bodies.
During the first meeting of my first women’s history seminar, the professor welcomed and congratulated us before acknowledging all the women whose dreams had died on the shoals of unwanted pregnancy."
~ Jessica Wilkerson
"Lady Vols Country"
https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-121-summer-2023/lady-vols-country
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