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Maria Veri

@mjveri.bsky.social
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Professor | San Francisco State University sport history & cultural studies | gender, race, food, critical pedagogy NY grown, CA based Pretty good cook

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WTF?!? Sports media is ignoring this story and it is an abdication of human decency.#FreeAminataSeck www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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ICE has detained women’s college basketball player with ACL injury for over a month
Aminata Seck, a women's basketball player at Kentucky State University, has been detained by ICE for over a month while dealing with an ACL injury.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ban "TBD"? What a spineless, insulting response from W league 'leadership'.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
VAR as twisted Hand of God (gutted for Egypt)
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Unreal.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cabo Verde, thank you for showing us the beauty of sport.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
OMG!!!
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My goodness... this Croatian keeper.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"Some of the most vocal, full-throated opposition to the A.I. Initiative has come from one particular C.S.U. campus: San Francisco State University." It's always good to be in the lead on the opposition front. 🦾
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Overwhelmed & grateful for this recognition. And having it presented by my friend @malcomaxx.bsky.social made it that much sweeter. 🙏🏽💜.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Just appalling.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan
Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
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March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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Ornella Nzindukiyimana @orarunswild.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICYMI! CfP: A People’s History of Sport in Canada I'm co-editing a special issue in JCS. If you or someone you know is working on a project, we want to hear about it! Abstracts due: March 30 #cdnstudies #cdnhistory #etudescanadiennes utppublishing.com/journal/jcs/...
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Special Issue Call for Papers
Journal of Canadian Studies is seeking new insights on special topics to publish in an upcoming issue. See if this CFP is the right fit for your research.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🔊🔊 🔊 Excited about this project. Please DM me with any questions.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Not loving the #Valkyries mascot reveal. How about a mascot with more powerful moves, and if you're gonna have instruction from a player as part of the performance, why not bring in women's hoops royalty???? Also, what's up w/ the skirt? Big miss from the marketing dept.
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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This is a dark stain on football, and will always be remembered as such. That UEFA nor FIFA did or said anything about the hundreds killed and complete anhialation of football in that region is deplorable.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 09/08/2025
I wrote about the WNBA and dildogate for Andscape: “By using the sex toy to make their point, the stunt becomes more than just an annoyance or a danger during play — it becomes a sexualized threat to the women on the court, an allusion to violence that can keep them in their place.”
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Throwing sex toys on court at WNBA games is about power, not humor
This latest 'trend' is not funny. It's harassment
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"The WNBA and its players have reached a level of popularity usually reserved for male athletes and leagues, a level of popularity these man-babies can only dream of."
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 25/07/2025
Thank you to the @sfchronicle.com for letting me report on the USOPC transfeminine athlete ban:
sfchronicle.com
Transgender athletes in limbo as Olympic sports grapple with USOPC ban
With the U.S. Olympic Committee adhering to the Trump administration’s drive to push transgender women out of sports, here’s what that means for athletes and sports organizations.
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
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Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov · 07/07/2025
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not that the NCAA had too many principles to begin with, but jeez it's shedding them quickly.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is criminally inhumane.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/06/2025
Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
wired.com
How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community
Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex
and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled
precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate
scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say
otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so
long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might
justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law
that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial
review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons
transgender children and their families to political whims.
In sadness, I dissent.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Scenes from Oakland #NoKings
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
AB Hernandez, the teen athlete targeted by Trump's anti-trans attacks: “I know how hard I've worked. That's what matters...Track is everything to me. It's an honor I’m a champion for something I love" Her mom Nereyda: “They try to intimidate ppl to quit, but I’m not scared of them" My interviews:
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Teen athlete targeted by Trump’s anti-trans attacks: ‘I know how hard I’ve worked. That’s what matters’
AB Hernandez, 16, and her mom tell the Guardian about her love of track, how her community has stood by her – and why ‘intimidation tactics’ won’t work
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
All airport gates should have cool exhibits like this by them. #NASSH2025 bound from SFO.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
👇🏽
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🫶🩵🩷🤍🫶
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Rita Liberti @rliberti.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The NCAA had nothing to do with the start of women's sport history in the US. If anything it worked at every turn, for decades, to discourage and even eliminate opportunities for women's competitive athletics. If you want to know more about women's athletic leadership - check out the AIAW!
nytimes.com
The Rise of Women’s Basketball (Gift Article)
Caitlin Clark helped push the sport to new highs. She didn’t do it alone.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My latest piece @thenation.com PART II of a Series on Trans-Athletes, this one focusing on the trans-feminine athletes who have been the most demonized. They've been the focus of constant commentary while they themselves have been deliberately unheard. Hear them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
“I’m Terrified”: Trans-Feminine Athletes in Their Own Words
In part two of a series, trans women athletes describe what it’s like to compete in the Trump era.
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Becky Beal @slowbeal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hi all, please consider giving to the CSSJ. I have been a member of this group for over 12 years. They do good work. givingday.csueastbay.edu/campaigns/ce...
givingday.csueastbay.edu
Center for Sport and Social Justice (CSSJ) - East Bay Giving Day
The mission of the Center for Sport and Social Justice at CSU East Bay since 2012 is to promote inclusion and social justice in sport and physical activity through community engagement and scholarly a...
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Avery Brundage and his 1930s IOC Nazi counterparts sure would be a fan of this transphobic cruelty.
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US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Once again, it was never about sports or protecting women. It was always about stripping away the rights, safety, respect, and recognition of trans people.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sheer cruelty.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Another appalling & authoritarian move to erase history and attempt to control the present....
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U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Cuts right through the lie (as we knew) about "protecting" women's sports...
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Avery Brundage energy from the NFL - no surprise there - in response to Zül-Qarnaįn Nantambu's brave, conscientious protest during Kendrick's halftime performance.
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Super Bowl performer explains Palestine-Sudan flag protest | AJ#shorts
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"They are pieces of soggy Wonder bread, reduced to attacking brilliance because it exposes their mediocrity. It’s just stupid to think some addled 78-year-old misogynist caked in orange is the peak of masculinity."
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NPR @npr.org · 09/02/2025
Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
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The NFL is removing 'End Racism' from its Super Bowl end zone
Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Shameful. Absolutely shameful.
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NCAA adjusts transgender policy after Trump ban
The NCAA announced changes to its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth only.
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#GivingTuesday is a great time to help support the Center for Sport and Social Justice at CSU East Bay, which aims to make a positive social impact through the world of sport. Donations will support students and youth in local East Bay communities.
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Center for Sport and Social Justice (CSSJ) - East Bay Giving Day
<p>The mission of the Center for Sport &amp; Social Justice at CSU East Bay since 2012 is to promote inclusion and social justice in sport and physical activity through community engagement and schola...
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Maria Veri @mjveri.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
👋🏽 Intro by way of promotion: honored to have co-written this special section for Kinesiology Review with Diane Williams. The Amy Morris Homans Cotillion is an imp part of queer PE/Kin history & testament to the power of joy & community for lesbian scholars during a not-so-distant homophobic past. 🏳️‍🌈
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