England goalkeeper Mary Earps and Birmingham City’s Siobhan Wilson open up concerning the pressures of being a lady athlete, and the way they learned to feel comfortable in their bodies
Body image is something that lots of us spend our lifetimes grappling with, and once you’re an athlete it may well often add a fancy layer to the already about-to-burst can of worms. Sports and movement allow our bodies to develop into the doer, taking us farther from being the inanimate, disempowered subject that our image-obsessed culture can often make us feel like. Nevertheless it’s a double-edged sword, with sports making us much more aware of our body’s limits and hyper-focused on its...
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