I flew straight from sunny Houston to cold snowy Chicago to present my paper, “Suspicious Bodies: Black Women Olympians, Sex Testing, and the War on Drugs,” at the American Studies Association annual meeting. I was on a amazing panel with Theresa Runstedtler, Frank Guridy and Lucia Trimbur. It was a Sports Studies Caucus panel on Pedagogies of of Race and Gender in Post-Civil Rights United States.
All around it was an amazing and invigorating conference.
Check out the Presidential Address below: