The Bleeding Space | Dr. Sarah Kate Crews | TEDxUSW

On the theme of ‘Tomorrow’, this talk explores how female boxers and the role of blood in
boxing might help us rethink the gendered limitations that often prevent young women and
girls from participating in sport. My name is Sarah Crews, I am a performance studies scholar and senior lecturer in
Performance and Media. I am an avid boxing fan but I feel passionate that female boxers
are undervalued and underpromoted in the sport. Narratives of women’s boxing are often
misunderstood, dismissed or forgotten altogether. But female boxers occupy an important
position in popular culture and their work might help us rethink issues such as period shame,
violence against women, the limitations that young women and girls face in sport, and how
female bodies are critiqued and discussed in media more generally. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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