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She also played for the New Jersey Gems in the first women’s U.S. pro basketball league (the WBL) Firsts & Breaking Stories As a journalist and author, broke these stories: …a pattern of homophobia in women's sports In 1991, she wrote Are We Winning Yet? (Random House,) which includes a chapter ("A Silence So Loud It Screams") that describes the pattern of homophobia in women’s sports. …a pattern of sexual abuse by coaches In 1994, she wrote The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football, which includes a chapter ("My Coach Says He Loves Me”) that describes the pattern of sexual abuse by coaches — primarily male coaches’ grooming and exploiting female athletes. Nelson later co-wrote, with Deborah L. Brake, Staying in Bounds, An NCAA Model Policy to Prevent Inappropriate Relationships Between Student-Athletes and Athletics Department Personnel. (2012) …a pattern of rape and domestic violence by football players "Sexual Assault as a Spectator Sport” (another chapter in The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football, was the first to describe the pattern of rape, gang rape, and domestic violence by football players. Her article, "Bad Sports” (New York Times, June 22, 1994) appeared five days after O.J. Simpson was arrested for murder; she had described Simpson’s history of domestic violence in the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2ba4daf36ed22617a458f1/d58c140e-11bf-4390-8678-040af9247aaf/Aphrodite+Me+Darker+8-22.jpg About - I spent almost two decades writing and speaking about the empowerment of women through sports. Later I worked for two associations. Now I’m back/forward to writing, a story I tell in the inaugural column of Stronger Women. Like the stories I first fell in love with as a child, my new stories have pictures. 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After bronze figurine in Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, D.C. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2ba4daf36ed22617a458f1/5bdbb768-8d6d-419b-96d2-5a2017a0fc42/Snow+in+August+MBNelson.jpg Art and Comics "Modern Petroglyph" - published by Rehoboth Beach Writer's Guild, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2ba4daf36ed22617a458f1/ed4aac3c-6d03-4a9e-a245-0d5eb435cda1/Statue+of+Liberty+A.jpg Art and Comics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2ba4daf36ed22617a458f1/efa993d4-1bf5-4dc4-9aa2-62ac1b6950e0/Wild+Swim+COVER+smaller.jpg Art and Comics A Wild Swim (2024): True graphic story. Click on cover to link to amazon. 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