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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,460 posts)
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 02:21 PM Aug 2015

D.C. Diva on the field, detective on the street

I haven't the slightest idea what the orientations of the team members are. Still, I do not think I am going out on a limb to say that the players break the mold of heteronormative gender stereotyping.

D.C. Diva on the field, detective on the street

August 13, 2015 2:19 PM EDT - When she’s not leading the D.C. Divas professional football team to its second national championship, Allyson Hamlin is working homicide cases for Prince George’s County Criminal Investigations Division. (Jorge Ribas / The Washington Post)

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