Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside with Melissa Ludtke
Tue, Oct 29
|Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum
Journalist Melissa Ludtke in conversation with Seattle Times assistant managing features editor Stefanie Loh
Time & Location
Oct 29, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
About the Event
Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum and the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) are thrilled to welcome journalist and author Melissa Ludtke to celebrate the launch of Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside. Melissa will be in conversation with the assistant managing editor overseeing features at The Seattle Times, Stefanie Loh. Join us for an author conversation and reception.
While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge’s order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media.
Locker Room Talk is Ludtke’s gripping account of being at the core of this globally…