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Female Athletes Talk Body-Image Issues and Eating Disorders | Players’ Tribune X Victoria Garrick

2021

In 2018, @The Players’ Tribune teamed up with @Victoria Garrick to address the body-image issues many female athletes are facing. In this video, eight USC athletes share their stories.

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . .

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Roxane Gay
2018
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters

Welcome to the world of women’s gymnastics and figure skating—the real world that happens away from the cameras, at the training camps and in the private lives of these talented teenage competitors.

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Joan Ryan
2025
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We’re Slowly Discovering the Murky Side of Elite Sport —Thanks to Women Speaking Out

The Tokyo Games have shone a light on bullying, abuse and sexualisation, which are too often ignored in the pursuit of glory.

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Gaby Hinsliff
2021
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Simone Biles’s Critics Don’t Understand This Generation of Athletes

The world’s best gymnast doesn’t need to look invincible.

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Jemele Hill
2021
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Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability.

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Stephanie Y. Evans (editor), Nsenga K. Burton (editor), Kanika Bell (editor)
2018
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