Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. When I was younger, I played for Charlton Athletic Womens Football Club and then I was lucky enough to win a place on the BBCs Journalism Trainee Scheme after studying Broadcast Journalism at university. BBC Sport presenter Jessica Creighton has reported on everything from the Olympic Games to football and boxing. An Asian man who uses a wheelchair might face racism as well as ableism. In her time at the Department of Labor, Ms. Creighton also completed a detail with the International Labor Relations Bureaus Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, managing development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean and implementing projects that addressed the impact of race, ethnicity, and disability on global child labor issues. For example, a recent investigation found there are just five black women on UK sports boards out of 415 positions, while in a recent YouGov survey for Gay Times, two-thirds of football fans said they weren't comfortable challenging homophobia amongst their own supporters. Video tag not supported Stephen Dixon Jessica Creighton "We're at a point now where the talk has got to move to what are we going to do now and when?" More Partner News. We are looking at the barriers and hurdles that keep women and girls away from doing sport and actively saying, right we are going to do something about this., "Sometimes you feel you're valued not on what your body can do but what it looks like" @RachelAtherton v interesting @bbc5live #bodyimage, Eleanor Oldroyd (@EllyOldroyd) January 17, 2014. Here, Sky Sports News presenter Jessica Creighton explains why she has been lobbying the FBL to recognise the LGBT+ community in their annual awards, and the outcome. Often, I'll go to an LGBT+ event and be the only black person, or I'll be at an event for the black community and I'm the only out LGBT+ person. Jessica Creighton - Research Program Director - LinkedIn I've found that action isn't always forthcoming when it concerns making organisational change, particularly when it involves intersectionality. Webinar special: Catch up on the first of our brand new B is for: Black Murdaugh's wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, were found fatally shot on the family's Islandton property on June 7, 2021. She made the comments towards the end of 2013 during a teary reveal on TV show Im A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! It seems many British athletes agree with her. Seemingly not being as pretty as they wanted her to be, says writer Joy Goh-Mah, who delves into the murky world of sport and objectification: What is most bewildering is this idea that Bartoli didnt deserve to win, and that she shouldnt have won, due to the fact that she was apparently, to them, so unattractive. Rhianna Pratchett explains exactly what it takes to tell a good video game story and what you need to do to get started.