Name: Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside
Start: 2024-10-24T18:00:00-0700
End: 2024-10-24T19:30:00-0700

Thursday October 24, 2024 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT

Mechanics' Institute

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Co-presented with Mechanics’ Institute Library

Sportswriter Melissa Ludtke's debut memoir Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside follows her time reporting for Sports Illustrated, being kicked out of the Yankees’ locker room, and the subsequent Supreme Court case that affirmed her equal rights. The ruling in Ludtke v. Kuhn opened up doors for generations of women in sports media. In conversation with San Francisco Chronicle's sports columnist Ann Killion. $7.18 for MI members / $17.85 for nonmembers
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Authors and Participants

Melissa Ludtke

In Locker Room Talk, Melissa Ludtke provides a first-hand account of what it was like to be at the center of a case that set off a media firestorm, with comedy sketches and newspaper cartoons depicting her as a leering intruder seeking to leer at athletes’ naked bodies. She takes... Read More →

Ann Killion

Born in San Francisco and raised in Marin County, Ann Killion has covered Bay Area sports for more than a quarter of a century. An award-winning columnist and a veteran of 11 Olympics, several World Cups and the Tour de France, Ann joined The Chronicle in 2012. Ann has worked for... Read More →

Thursday October 24, 2024 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
Mechanics' Institute

Nonfiction

Litquake 2024

Melissa Ludtke

Ann Killion

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