My latest with @playthegame-org.bsky.social
"Voices Sports Leaders Fear"
Unique wisdom of survivors of systemic abuse is lacking in positions of influence. Better governance & safer healthier sport cultures require them at the table co-creating new laws & policy.
www.playthegame.org/news/the-voi...

From gymnastics to badminton, sports bodies have ignored abuse and prioritised power❗

Sports organisations resist survivor involvement, but without them, meaningful change will never happen ⚠️

Read the comment by @kimshore.bsky.social 👇

www.playthegame.org/news/the-voi...

📣Calling all Safe Sport Advocates, Athletes and Survivors!!! 📣

I spoke at this conference for the first time last year. It was an amazing experience! I learned so much and connected with so many brave, outstanding people working hard to make sport better. 💪

"Sport at the Conjuncture: Sport History, Sexual Abuse, and Resistance"

Our latest. Certainly my most radical contribution. It's a critique of sport history, a plea for historians to engage more in the present, and a call for a collaborative project on 🇨🇦 sport.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We need to identify and disavow the ideology upholding sport as a persistent field of human rights abuses.

Thank you @playthegame! With the recent IOC consensus statement, I hope the timing of this piece adds a HUMANIZING element to the conversation. Nothing would be possible without the brave sharing of survivors. 🙏 Next step is to see your voices elevated to expert status & co-create sport policy.

Language matters, argues @kimshore.bsky.social, a Canadian safe sport advocate. In a quest to understand the toxic culture of sports, she uncovers how dehumanisation is an apt word to describe what happens to many athletes 👇

www.playthegame.org/news/why-deh...