When Lynx forward Aerial Powers comes home from practice, she puts on her headset, logs on and starts to stream.
The WNBA star has been an avid gamer since childhood, when her family bonded over Call of Duty and GoldenEye 007. But as she’s grown older and started to play with strangers, or “randoms,” that camaraderie and support from her opponents isn’t always there.
“I've had it where I'm playing good, and I go to say something, and it's like, ‘Wait, you’re a girl?’” Powers says. “Or it's like, ‘Are you a girl or a young teenage boy?