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Serena Williams and the Policing of Anger

Soraya Chemaly joins the show to talk Serena Williams, and the overseeing of women’s rage.

Dave Zirin

September 18, 2018

This week we speak to Soraya Chemaly, author of the new book Rage Becomes Her, about Serena Williams, Title IX, and how our society monitors women’s anger, particularly black women.

We also have Choice Words about the Serena-Naomi Osaka match as well as the response from some umpires in the aftermath. We got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down awards to Kenny Stills and a racist cartoonist, Kaepernick Watch and more.

Soraya Chemaly Twitter: @schemaly ‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: writer Soraya Chemaly on why women should unleash their rage Soraya’s Rage Playlist 

Zirin What Tennis Umpires Need to Learn About Race and Gender in Sports: Serena Williams Gets Treated Like No One Else 

Dave ZirinTwitterDave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on the politics of sports. He is also the coproducer and writer of the new documentary Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL.


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