During tonight’s AEW pay-per-view Double Or Nothing, Britt Baker defeated Hikaru Shida to become the new AEW Women’s World Champion. At Blood and Guts, Baker’s pleas for a title opportunity were finally answered, after AEW announced Hikaru Shida would defend the AEW Women’s World Championship against Baker, who was ranked no. 1 on the AEW women’s rankings. Shida’s…
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Hikaru Shida retains AEW Women’s Title at Revolution
Tonight, during AEW Revolution, Hikaru Shida retained the AEW Women’s World Championship against her opponent, Ryo Mizunami. The match was the final stop for Mizunami, who defeated Maki Itoh, Aja Kong, and Nyla Rose in the AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament, to get to the title match featured on the pay-per-view this evening. After…
Separate but (Un)Equal: The Othering of Women in AEW, Part 1
Part 1: The Red Flags Surrounding AEW’s Continued Treatment of their Women’s Roster In this four-part series, Jason Norris and Jacqui Pratt, PhD, discuss the implications behind the AEW practice of “othering” their women’s roster. Definition of “Othering”: the reductive action of labelling and defining a person who belongs to the socially subordinate category of…