“It was awesome to do it with people who are not only my teammates but my friends. “I’m just trying to continue to kind of normalize what what it is to be gay,” Bird told Outsports in a phone interview. I think that it can break down barriers and allow people to have conversations that maybe they wouldn’t otherwise have.” So when you combine those two together, identity with sport. “I believe that sport is a is a vehicle for social change and I think that visibility is also a very powerful tool for social change. “My platform is for inclusion and that’s why I’m a part of this campaign.” “It’s intended to celebrate the contributions and achievements of Nike athletes who are creating change, using sport as a platform,” Mosier told Outsports by phone.
Nike matched those words with video of embattled Olympian Caster Semenya, running, and then looking straight into the camera in an extreme closeup, as if to reinforce, “everyone!”
