 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book about soccer.
One Life, by Megan Rapinoe. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe talks about her athletic career, her personal life, and her political activism. She was out as a lesbian at a time when many were staying closeted. She has also been active in the fight for equal pay for women players. Rapinoe is reticent about some aspects of her personal life. She acknowledges that she broke up with fiancee Sera Cahoone and immediately started a relationship with basketball player Sue Bird, but has little else to say about it, except to add that she and Bird were just friends until the engagement ended. On the other hand, she's very open about her brother Brian's long-term drug problem and repeated incarcerations, and how hard it was on the family. She notes that while in prison, he became involved with white supremacist gangs, though apparently this ended when he was released. Rapinoe also talks about her choice to kneel in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. She got far more hate and harassment over this than any of her other political activism. She is still certain it was the right thing to do, putting her popularity as a white female celebrity in the service of an important cause. She begins the book with a quote from poet Mary Oliver: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
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