The 'Cheer' phenomenon hasn't happened in a vacuum, says Allison Wright, who wrote a dissertation about the history of cheerleading in America
Allison Wright is the executive editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, VQR, Popular Mechanics, The Texas Observer, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin and teaches journalism at the University of Virginia. The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN.
"Have you seen it?""Should I watch it?""I'm obsessed!" So many people have contacted me about"Cheer," I've lost track. I know why they're asking: my doctoral dissertation was a cultural history of cheerleading. In a sense, I have a Ph.D in cheer. Allison Wright Since its release earlier this month, the Netflix docuseries has introduced millions of viewers to 21st century cheerleading, a decidedly more dynamic, athletic variant of the activity than FDR -- our first, but not last, cheerleader in chief -- could have envisioned.
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