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Nicu. now she s out watching you run. i can t believe it. competition wasn t easy. she could hardly walk. 30 minutes on the treadmill left her in tears. you expect yourself to be superwoman. you expect to be superwoman as well and you go through a real-life experience and you re grateful for your life. that led felix to activism, testifying before congress about black maternal mortality. we need to provide women of color with more support during pregnancies. and penning an op-ed with nike. i asked nike to contractually guarantee that i wouldn t be punished if i didn t perform at my best in the months surrounding childbirth. if i, one of nike s most widely marketed athletes, couldn t secure these protections, who could. nike declined. the way you stood up for women, women of color, mothers, ....
people expect you to be superwoman. and you expect yourself to be super woman as well and then you go through a real-life experience and you are just grateful for your life. that experience also led felix to activism, testifying before congress about black maternal mortality. we need to provide women of color with more support during their pregnancies and penning a raw op ed with her frustration with her now former sponsor nike writing i asked nike to contractually agree that i wouldn t be punished if i didn t perform my best surrounding child birth, if nike, one of most widely marketed athletes, couldn t, who could? the way you stood up for women, women of color, mothers, that was a big risk. it was terrifying. there had been silence around the culture of pregnancy and ....