Toronto Canada/Sydney Australia. Activist, author, researcher, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto helenlenskyj.ca
My next book: *THE QUEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SPORT*
Emerald Publishing, 2025
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is a Canadian sociologist and historian. Born and raised in Australia, she did graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she then became a professor. A scholar of Olympic studies, she wrote several sport history books such as Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality (1986), Olympic Industry Resistance (2008), Sexual Diversity and the Sochi 2014 Olympics (2014), and Gender, Athletes' Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (2018), as well as an autobiography called A Lot to Learn (2005). .. more
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"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".
"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
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I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Warriors coach Steve Kerr was asked about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Here are his full comments:
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Thousands gathered in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good was killed by ICE. The message to the regime was loud, clear, and absolutely heartbreaking.
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FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone
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I wish more officials would abandon decorum when situations are truly egregious
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This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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Unfortunately for them, the domain is now owned by comedian and former South Park writer Toby Morton.
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