By
Kathleen Walsh,
an evening blogger, writing about news, pop culture, and politics.
She is also a contributor to Vulture, and her writing has appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, The Independent, InStyle, and more.
WNBA star Sophie Cunningham has been widely accused of having conservative politics — partly because she is white and from Missouri, as she has pointed out, but also partly because she has never flatly denied being conservative. In a new ESPN profile, Cunningham fought back against assumptions about her politics while perhaps offering some insight into where those assumptions came from.
