@laurenfleshman
Just another human trying to change the world. 🏳️🌈 Parent, Coach, Speaker, Builder of WILDER Running & Writing Retreats. NY Times best selling author of “Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World” (Sports Book of the Year 2023). Read it.
Painting of a sitting white woman facing left looking outwards in the act of drawing beside a window looking on to a loving couple in tbe dustance next to a white building under a pale blue sky
As happened to the artworks of many historic female artists, this work by French painter Marie-Denise Villers -Young Woman Drawing, 1801 - was attributed to a male artist before being truely recognised.....
Big Foot and Little Foot.
Those are simply the best. The movie made us cry too.
Today we are celebrating #InternationalWomensDay! 🌎🙌
We’ve taken a look back at our #WHSBOTY award-winning books written by our female award winners:
— @laurenfleshman.bsky.social
— Anna Krein
— Laura Hillenbrand
— Sally Jenkins
Read any of sports books from the list below?
Happy to answer any questions here about it ❤️
Are you a woman who likes to run and write and be in stunning nature and eat delicious food? I’ve got a few spots left at my Wilder Retreat in late May! Don’t miss this: Wilderrunning.com
I can’t stop obsessively wondering how the world would change if everyone listened to The Telepathy Tapes podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Here's the letter. Copy and paste, fill in the details, add your flair if you want. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Learned about this great charitable organization reading Good for a Girl by @laurenfleshman.bsky.social Consider giving if you are able to help make sports more accessible for more girls 💕 www.brasforgirls.org
Happened again yesterday 😔
I went to google looking for three narrow stools that can fit in the space two wide ones currently occupy so three kids can sit at the kitchen island.
Here’s what I learned:
Don’t Google image search “narrow stools.”
“You’ve got to watch The Diplomat!” they all told me.
Did you know there are two different shows called The Diplomat?
I didn’t.
I watched every episode of the wrong one by accident. And I loved it 😂
Wicked 😭😭😭❤️
Something very special is coming soon…☺️
Incredible morning at the Philly half marathon pacing the sub 2:00 group! Racing remains the fastest way to see the scope of a city AND make new friends.
Instead of a march in the wake of this election, perhaps what we need is a widespread American Vigil to express grief for the loss of goodness. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
I am familiar with the forces at play that you’re talking about and spend a lot of time thinking about them. And still trans people are real and valid and have played a key role in LGB rights.
Interesting thing: put all those same words (+more) on the stripes of the USA flag and it truly fits.
It’s important to have visible signals that indicate who/where is likely to be safe when you’re in a targeted group. A Pride flag can do that. And so when people tear them down they aren’t just trying to tamp down someone’s “pride” but also take away a community building tool.
…to name two incidents, I jumped the car of a queer teen who had nobody local to count on but felt safe knocking and asking me. A groom in a gay wedding staying at the hotel down the street approached me like he was an old friend in a pinch and asked if he could borrow my steamer. It was lovely.
People have asked why I need to “advertise” my LGBTQ status with a flag. It’s more than “Pride.” Since flying it, I’ve had wonderful interactions with people in the LGBTQ community and it has led to being able to help and be helped. For example…
I left home for a run in broad daylight. Came home to this: they didn’t just take down the flag, they ripped the flag mount hardware right out of the post, stripping it and destroying the screws. I got my drill and put it right back up. Sure it’ll happen again. But fuck ‘em.
Hi!
Phew it feels good to be here and starting over❤️