“You make a space for it, and you own it”: finding your way back to sport

Despite showing early promise as a teenager, Jen* was pushed out of powerlifting. She shares her story of finding her way back with Georgina Hibberd. At high school in the 1990s, Jen* lifted heavy weights for the first time. She showed promise but she was also called, ‘butch’, ‘a lezzo’ and told she had ‘brass …