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…
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AEW Women’s Title Eliminator Tournament: US Preview
It has been almost 18 months since All Elite Wrestling (AEW) debuted Dynamite as its weekly flagship show. Expectations were high, and my own have largely been met. But the one area where they’ve lacked is with the women’s division, having settled into a “one match a week in the same time slot” formula that…
AEW reveals Women’s Title Eliminator Tournament bracket
Earlier this afternoon, via their YouTube channel, All Elite Wrestling revealed the completed AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator Tournament bracket. During the video, Tony Schiavone also announced that matches on both the Japan side and U.S. side of the bracket would start airing Monday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. EST on YouTube. A complete schedule…
Indie Spotlight: Leyla Hirsch
“Legit” Leyla Hirsch has been making a name for herself all over the indie circuit since her debut in September of 2017. She fell in love with professional wrestling at the age of 14, when she discovered WWE and vowed to make wrestling a career. Hirsch began amateur wrestling in high school, which ultimately led…