Episode 17: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion in Sport with Shireen Ahmed

In this episode, Derek and Nathan are joined by Shireen Ahmed for a lengthy and ranging discussion of both the complex politics of how sport is interwoven with the current uprisings against white supremacy and the challenges more broadly of reconciling a love for sport with relentless critique.

Shireen Ahmed is a writer, public speaker and an award-winning Sports Activist focusing on Muslim women in sports, and the intersections of racism and misogyny in sport. She is an Inclusion and Diversity consultant. She is also an athlete, advocate, community organizer, and works with Youth of Colour on empowerment projects and is an avid sports coach and mentor. Shireen attended the University of Toronto. She is a regular contributor to Muslimah Media Watch and a former Global Sports Correspondent for Safe World For Women and Muslim Women in Sports website. Shireen is also co-host of the absolutely essential Burn it All Down podcast, which is the first feminist sports podcast that analyzes sports culture from an intersectional feminist lens.. Seriously...that podcast is incredible and needs to be checked out!

 

Shireen's work has appeared in venues such as The Guardian, The Nation, The Globe and Mail, Time, Vice, SB Nation, Buzzfeed and countless others, including a superb TED Talk from February of this year. You can follow Shireen on Twitter @_shireenahmed_ or at www.shireenahmed.com!

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**For a transcription of this episode please click here. Huge thanks to @Punkadmic for making this happen!**