This week we’re thinking ahead to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, chatting about the drama regarding the fecally infused river they’ve got there, plus the state of queerness at the games. In other news, Julian Assange is free, the Taliban refuse to platform women’s voices, Chappell Roan is a star, and Stonehenge got a new paint job.

👋 Welcome to Episode 18 of the podcast for burnt out girlies trying to stay Broadly Relevant, hosted by your favourite personality hires, Simran Pasricha & Ryan Hamilton.

🔗 Research Links

• There's no openly gay player in the men's AFL. The silence is deafening - ABC News
• Chappel Roan on Jimmy Fallon
• UN Doha Talks Exclude Afghan Women
• Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood : Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics : NPR
• Olympics: Namibia’s sprinters highlight a flawed testosterone testing system
• Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Wants To Compete, Not Defend Her Womanhood : Live Updates: The Tokyo Olympics : NPR
• Restrictions on transgender athletes at Paris 2024
• Which sports will allow trans athletes at the Paris Olympics? | Context
• MONA fires back by hanging Picasso’s in toilet
• Why the hearing to free Julian Assange is happening on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific - ABC News
• Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil protesters
• Sports are supposed to be for all – but new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport

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🖤💛❤️ We recorded this episode on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations, but Simran and Ryan met and grew up together on the land of the Kombumerri people, part of the Yugambeh Language Group. We’d like to acknowledge and pay our respects...