The Lack of Support for Brittney Griner Shows How Society Continues to Fail Black Women & Queer People

Chris L. Butler
4 min readMar 24, 2022

The first time I heard of Brittney Griner, we were both sophomores at our respective religious universities. I was living in Cincinnati at the time, studying sport management with big hopes of working in sports and entertainment. Griner was in Waco, Texas, a place much smaller and much more conservative-with a lot…

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Chris L. Butler

Black American & Dutch writer living in Canada. Author of 2 chapbooks: ‘Sacrilegious’ and ‘BLERD: ’80s BABY, ’90s KID’. 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇨🇦