“I wanted to write this book because there’s so much more happening here than the sports,” she added, “and I think we can use that as a vehicle to really talk about what I see as the most important work in my life, which is all the stuff we’re doing off the field.” “There’s nothing that I could tell someone about my journey as an athlete that would help them become an elite athlete,” Rapinoe said in an interview last month, a bright blue beanie pulled over the pandemic haircut she received from her fiancée, the W.N.B.A. In the book, we find a thoroughly modern athlete who plays hard and wins a lot of games, then funnels her public profile and social-media following into activism, not just endorsements. Indeed, her memoir, “One Life,” tracks the arc of her political awakening at least as much as it follows the path of her sports career. “You know who else works hard?” Rapinoe writes. And her white privilege makes its first appearance in the prologue: “A small, white, female soccer player - even a lesbian one with a loud voice and pink hair - lands differently in the press than, say, a six-foot-four-inch Black football player with an Afro.”Ībsent from the book are the standard admonishments that if you just work hard enough, you will, somehow, become a professional athlete. She writes about the pay disparity between male and female professional soccer players.
But readers will also learn about redlining and how Black service members were excluded from the G.I. Yes, important games are reconstructed and injuries recounted. Megan Rapinoe, the American soccer player so decorated with medals and trophies that she’s practically gilded, has a book coming out on Tuesday. Why are we all not out?” She decided to publicly come out ahead of the London 2012 Olympics and began to campaign for marriage equality.GREENWICH, Conn. Disappointed by how few athletes were willing to discuss their sexuality, Rapinoe asked herself: “Why am I not out, I thought, impatiently. Rapinoe, who announced her engagement to long-term partner Sue Bird in October, also reveals in the book that she once had a relationship with her national teammate Abby Wambach. “No more limbo, no more weird asexual dates.” It also made her realize two things: “Clearly I’m gay, and why didn’t anyone tell me? And number two: This is awesome.” “For the first time I was attracted to someone, and the discovery thrilled me,” she writes. I just don’t know!” It was not until her first year of college that Rapinoe admitted to herself that she was a lesbian. Rapinoe admits to being “late to the party” sexually, unsure of who she was attracted to: “I would look at a boy and have this feeling of I don’t know if he’s cute or not.
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