Megan Rapinoe on US Women's Soccer, Social Justice, WNBA Bubble
, in the isolated, heavily tested compound where the entire women’s basketball season is going to take place. While she’s in the #wubble, she’s got her work cut out for her: “My little pseudo-mission is to make politics cool.” Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition
, we talked about the ways that politics has woven into her career and fame as a soccer player — from kneeling with Colin Kaepernick to the— despite the constant messaging that athletes like her should stay apolitical. “I think the premise that athletes shouldn’t be political is just wack,” she explains. “Politics is gonna engage with you whether you engage with it or not.”
So, during quarantine she’s taking her platform and engaging right back: “Bring politics to a different subset of people who maybe aren’t reading every newspaper and watching every news show every day,” she says. When the CARES Act passed, she got on
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