Fashion is an integral part of the WNBA. It extends well beyond a few NBA players popularizing their league’s signature orange hue. The WNBA players—all women, 80 percent Black and many identifying as LGBTQ+—have a long history of using fashion to make statements that create impact off the court.
The players’ initiatives centered on eradicating systemic racism, police brutality against Black people, and injustices of any kind. It was not lost on Williams that a candidate who supports those ideals could amplify the players’ efforts.Without even uttering Loeffler’s name, the players, by wearing “Warnock” shirts, revitalized the reverend’s campaign to dramatic, measurable effect.
Players from the Washington Mystics wear T-shirts with seven bullet holes on the back to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake on August 26.With forward Tianna Hawkins, Hawkins’s five-year-old son Emanuel, and the entire Mystics squad standing behind her, guard Ariel Atkins spoke with ESPN’s Holly Rowe about the team’s choice to take a day of reflection rather than play in the wake of yet another Black body being pumped full of bullets by way of a policeman’s gun.
So long as racism remains institutionalized in American society, the players of the WNBA, out of sheer necessity for their survival, are inclined to sustain their leadership on social justice issues. But their activism doesn’t stop there. Through the years, they’ve also battled homophobia and gender-based inequity—often, again, by using fashion.
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