Maria Veri
@mjveri.bsky.social
Professor | San Francisco State University
sport history & cultural studies | gender, race, food, critical pedagogy
NY grown, CA based
Pretty good cook
sport history & cultural studies | gender, race, food, critical pedagogy
NY grown, CA based
Pretty good cook
Not loving the #Valkyries mascot reveal. How about a mascot with more powerful moves, and if you're gonna have instruction from a player as part of the performance, why not bring in women's hoops royalty???? Also, what's up w/ the skirt?
Big miss from the marketing dept.
Big miss from the marketing dept.
August 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Not loving the #Valkyries mascot reveal. How about a mascot with more powerful moves, and if you're gonna have instruction from a player as part of the performance, why not bring in women's hoops royalty???? Also, what's up w/ the skirt?
Big miss from the marketing dept.
Big miss from the marketing dept.
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This is a dark stain on football, and will always be remembered as such.
That UEFA nor FIFA did or said anything about the hundreds killed and complete anhialation of football in that region is deplorable.
That UEFA nor FIFA did or said anything about the hundreds killed and complete anhialation of football in that region is deplorable.
August 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is a dark stain on football, and will always be remembered as such.
That UEFA nor FIFA did or said anything about the hundreds killed and complete anhialation of football in that region is deplorable.
That UEFA nor FIFA did or said anything about the hundreds killed and complete anhialation of football in that region is deplorable.
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I wrote about the WNBA and dildogate for Andscape: “By using the sex toy to make their point, the stunt becomes more than just an annoyance or a danger during play — it becomes a sexualized threat to the women on the court, an allusion to violence that can keep them in their place.”
Throwing sex toys on court at WNBA games is about power, not humor
This latest 'trend' is not funny. It's harassment
andscape.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I wrote about the WNBA and dildogate for Andscape: “By using the sex toy to make their point, the stunt becomes more than just an annoyance or a danger during play — it becomes a sexualized threat to the women on the court, an allusion to violence that can keep them in their place.”
"The WNBA and its players have reached a level of popularity usually reserved for male athletes and leagues, a level of popularity these man-babies can only dream of."
The cryptobros behind the sex objects being thrown at WNBA games should know that only weak men demean women. And anyone pulling a stunt like this is clearly trying to compensate for … something.
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Immature crypto bros can't understand throwing sex toys at WNBA players isn't harmless fun
A crypto group claims throwing sex toys at WNBA games is a "prank," but it's really a coordinated campaign of harassment, columnist Nancy Armour writes.
www.usatoday.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"The WNBA and its players have reached a level of popularity usually reserved for male athletes and leagues, a level of popularity these man-babies can only dream of."
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Thank you to the @sfchronicle.com for letting me report on the USOPC transfeminine athlete ban:
Transgender athletes in limbo as Olympic sports grapple with USOPC ban
With the U.S. Olympic Committee adhering to the Trump administration’s drive to push transgender women out of sports, here’s what that means for athletes and sports organizations.
www.sfchronicle.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thank you to the @sfchronicle.com for letting me report on the USOPC transfeminine athlete ban:
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Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
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This is footage from today in MacArthur Park.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.
The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.
Absolutely outrageous.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.
The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.
Absolutely outrageous.
July 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.
The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.
Absolutely outrageous.
Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.
The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.
Absolutely outrageous.
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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
Not that the NCAA had too many principles to begin with, but jeez it's shedding them quickly.
NCAA Division I Council votes to recommend allowing college athletes and staff members to bet on pro sports: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
NCAA panel recommends allowing Division I college athletes to bet on pro sports
A top NCAA policy-making group voted to recommend changes to rules to allow Division I athletes to bet on pro sports, the association announced.
www.usatoday.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Not that the NCAA had too many principles to begin with, but jeez it's shedding them quickly.
This is criminally inhumane.
After three years and 1.3 million texts and phone calls, the national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline is shutting down.
Trump administration to end national LGBTQ+ suicide hotline
No reason was given for why services specific to LGBTQ+ callers are ending for 988, the crisis hotline for queer youth that launched in 2022.
19thnews.org
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is criminally inhumane.
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Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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AB Hernandez, the teen athlete targeted by Trump's anti-trans attacks: “I know how hard I've worked. That's what matters...Track is everything to me. It's an honor I’m a champion for something I love"
Her mom Nereyda: “They try to intimidate ppl to quit, but I’m not scared of them"
My interviews:
Her mom Nereyda: “They try to intimidate ppl to quit, but I’m not scared of them"
My interviews:
Teen athlete targeted by Trump’s anti-trans attacks: ‘I know how hard I’ve worked. That’s what matters’
AB Hernandez, 16, and her mom tell the Guardian about her love of track, how her community has stood by her – and why ‘intimidation tactics’ won’t work
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
AB Hernandez, the teen athlete targeted by Trump's anti-trans attacks: “I know how hard I've worked. That's what matters...Track is everything to me. It's an honor I’m a champion for something I love"
Her mom Nereyda: “They try to intimidate ppl to quit, but I’m not scared of them"
My interviews:
Her mom Nereyda: “They try to intimidate ppl to quit, but I’m not scared of them"
My interviews:
All airport gates should have cool exhibits like this by them. #NASSH2025 bound from SFO.
May 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
All airport gates should have cool exhibits like this by them. #NASSH2025 bound from SFO.
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Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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The NCAA had nothing to do with the start of women's sport history in the US. If anything it worked at every turn, for decades, to discourage and even eliminate opportunities for women's competitive athletics. If you want to know more about women's athletic leadership - check out the AIAW!
The Rise of Women’s Basketball (Gift Article)
Caitlin Clark helped push the sport to new highs. She didn’t do it alone.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The NCAA had nothing to do with the start of women's sport history in the US. If anything it worked at every turn, for decades, to discourage and even eliminate opportunities for women's competitive athletics. If you want to know more about women's athletic leadership - check out the AIAW!
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My latest piece @thenation.com PART II of a Series on Trans-Athletes, this one focusing on the trans-feminine athletes who have been the most demonized. They've been the focus of constant commentary while they themselves have been deliberately unheard. Hear them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
“I’m Terrified”: Trans-Feminine Athletes in Their Own Words
In part two of a series, trans women athletes describe what it’s like to compete in the Trump era.
www.thenation.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My latest piece @thenation.com PART II of a Series on Trans-Athletes, this one focusing on the trans-feminine athletes who have been the most demonized. They've been the focus of constant commentary while they themselves have been deliberately unheard. Hear them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One thing that really bugs me about so many of the anti-trans arguments about sports is that they'll be like, "Lia Thomas was a giant! Clearly she had an unfair advantage!" when the reality was just that she was pretty much the same size as other elite women swimmers.
March 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
One thing that really bugs me about so many of the anti-trans arguments about sports is that they'll be like, "Lia Thomas was a giant! Clearly she had an unfair advantage!" when the reality was just that she was pretty much the same size as other elite women swimmers.
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Hi all, please consider giving to the CSSJ. I have been a member of this group for over 12 years. They do good work.
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Center for Sport and Social Justice (CSSJ) - East Bay Giving Day
The mission of the Center for Sport and Social Justice at CSU East Bay since 2012 is to promote inclusion and social justice in sport and physical activity through community engagement and scholarly a...
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March 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hi all, please consider giving to the CSSJ. I have been a member of this group for over 12 years. They do good work.
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Avery Brundage and his 1930s IOC Nazi counterparts sure would be a fan of this transphobic cruelty.
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Avery Brundage and his 1930s IOC Nazi counterparts sure would be a fan of this transphobic cruelty.
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Once again, it was never about sports or protecting women. It was always about stripping away the rights, safety, respect, and recognition of trans people.
NEW: HHS launches anti-transgender campaign featuring Riley Gaines. It seeks to ban gender affirming care and require the federal health agencies to eliminate recognition of trans people.
womenshealth.gov/protecting-w...
womenshealth.gov/protecting-w...
February 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Once again, it was never about sports or protecting women. It was always about stripping away the rights, safety, respect, and recognition of trans people.