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Powerlifting: dishonor, doubt and the first bomb-out. Brewing a new beginning – part 4

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Along the year, I had the misfortune of observing the worst of what powerlifting became as a sport. While there are still honorable projects – whether federative, companies, gyms, educational initiatives – I would say most lack honesty, credibility, and, most of all, trustworthiness. I learned and witnessed things that I wish I never had. […]

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Translated interviews and mainstream media stories series: “The body, this notable stranger”

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BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION: I have been translating (from Portuguese) some of the interviews and stories written about me in the past five years, as well as producing summaries about the videos recorded with some longer interviews. These translations were a requirement for a professional project. It has been hard work. Most of the original

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Questions I receive – an example of users’ entitlement and abuse

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Questions I receive – an example worth sharing for many (bad) reasons   (I have corrected punctuation and grammar errors and translated in readable form: it was originally in bad Portuguese) Question: “Hello Marilia, I would first like to congratulate you because I think you are one of the best female Brazilian powerlifters. You have

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Rousey versus Holm and the fighting fans

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Yesterday Ronda Rousey was defeated for the first time in her career with the UFC in a fight with Holly Holm. As far as very knowledgeable commentators say (and published), in spite of Rousey’s favoritism for many technical reasons, Holm’ victory was no surprise, either: she came in as a world champion boxer who, up

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226lbs bench press @129lbs Sunday = I’m alive and lifting, unlike previously predicted

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That was the WPC National Bench Press Championship, held this Sunday, April the 20th. The date had a bag full of meanings to me: it would be the first “real” competition I would take part in Brazil. Before that I lifted with the older federation, where, in this part of the world, many weird things

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Surviving suicide, rape and abuse through powerlifting: my story

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On October 5, 2012, Gene and Ame Rychlak created the campaign “Power Against Violence and Abuse”. Their mission is as simple and complex as powerlifting itself: to confront all forms of abuse. Abuse, by definition, is an act of violence that takes place between asymmetric players: an adult against a child or an elderly person,

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The economic and social cost of the mega sports events: an anti-Olympic manifest

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I was born in Brazil. Technically, I am Brazilian. I lack, however, the typical commitment to supposedly regional interests (whose rationality I question). I am not a patriot or a nationalist. Neither am I a naïve believer in any sort of neutrality: all intellectual claims are interest biased. Mine are informed by my ideological penchant

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