For this months episode, Beatrice and Angharad sit down with Chris Paouros, trustee and Kick it Out, about Kick it Out's 2019/2020 discrimination statistics. Chris also wears many other hats, including co-Chair of Proud Lilywhites, Spurs’ LGBT+ fan group, FA’s Inclusion Advisory Board member and more.

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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The Football v Homophobia Youth Panel Communications Officer Sam Clarke is joined by the Education team, Amy Allard-Dunbar and Ryan Harwood, for the first of our monthly youth panel discussions 

This episode contains conversations on trans exclusion in sport, the Sky Sports sacking and discussions surrounding bisexuality for Bi Visibility Month  

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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This month Beatrice and Angharad catch up with Anwar Uddin, ex-professional footballer and the first person of Bangladeshi origin to play professional football in England. Now Anwar is the campaign manager for Fans for Diversity and assistant manager at Aldershot Town FC

Anwar Uddin: @AnwarU01

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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Beatrice and Angharad sit down with former England International, Olympian and current Aston Villa Women FC player Anita Asante to talk about her life, career and activism!

Anita Asante: @NicenNeetz

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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This month Beatrice and Angharad talk to guests Amy Allard-Dunbar and Thierry Fotso about their experiences in football as black people and how racism has shaped their love/hate of the game. Amy talks from the perspective of a black bisexual woman and Thierry talks about his experience as a asylum seeker originally from Cameroon 

Amy can be found at @amyadunbar on Instagram 

Article we discuss: 

https://gal-dem.com/we-shouldnt-forget-that-racism-in-football-is-a-problem-at-home-as-well-as-away/

https://gal-dem.com/mesut-ozil-black-jack-love-island-identity-change-popularity/

https://gal-dem.com/monkey-noises-in-womens-football-are-a-reminder-that-racism-goes-beyond-raheem-sterling/

https://gal-dem.com/dark-side-football-world-cup/

https://gal-dem.com/like-support-englands-world-cup-efforts-hate-nationalism/

https://gal-dem.com/eniola-alukos-triumph-shines-glaring-light-racism-within-british-football/

 https://www.dw.com/en/bundesliga-teams-take-a-knee-to-support-black-lives-matter-movement/a-53719904

Media treatment of black players:

https://www.joe.ie/sport/raheem-sterling-speaks-abuse-chelsea-game-651027

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2832646-raheem-sterling-says-racism-in-football-is-nowhere-near-being-sorted

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/07/raheem-sterling-the-only-disease-right-now-is-the-racism-that-we-are-fighting

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/06/watford-andre-gray-george-floyd-stereotyped-and-judged-by-police

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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This week Beatrice and Angharad discuss the Football v Transphobia Week of Action and it's success despite covid-19. They are then joined by Naomi Reid from Charlton Invicta and Tash Oakes-Monger from Stonewall FC who talked about their experiences playing football and their reflections on the Week of Action. 

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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This week Beatrice and Angharad sit down to chat with Natalie Washington about being a trans footballer, the FAs rules, Football v Transphobia Week of Action and much more! 

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This week Beatrice and Angharad chat about the Football v Homophobia Month of Action 2020 and go through The Football v Homophobia teams personal highlights! 

Last month was the campaigns first-ever awards evening were fantastic individuals and clubs were awarded for their amazing work for LGBTIQ+ equality in football. Beatrice and Angharad managed to grab a few people for mini-interviews, they heard from; Lou Englefield, Chris Paouros, Gary Ginaw and Natalie Washington 

How queer is the womens’ game? Exploration of queer spaces within sport and how the current situation is compared to how it is portrayed:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2588276998163026

FA Wales video: 

 https://www.facebook.com/FAWales/videos/3108259092520541/

Football v Homophobia Scotland Strategy:

https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/6003/football-v-homophobia-scotland-the-strategypdf.pdf

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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CW: Severe homophobia minute 37 

This week Angharad and Beatrice sit down to discuss homophobia, transphobia and racism in the women's game and the concept of oppression Olympics. The pair go a bit off-topic into rugby to chat about Israel Folau and his recent hiring by Catalans Dragons. They discuss the recent Owen Jones court case, homophobia at the Millwall game, The Football v Homophobia awards and a general Football v Homophobia catch up! 

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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Beatrice sits down with Roya to discuss all things football, homophobia and the importance of the youth voice

Roya Medizadeh-Valoujerdy is Vice-Chair of the FA National Youth Council and can be found on twitter at @Roya_mehdizadeh

Edited by Martin McCandlish

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