graham linehan likes to claim his transphobic activism is actually anti-misogyny in nature, and so im thinking about how he created a female character for his sitcom whose first two identifiable character traits are "knows nothing about technology" and "is obsessed with shoes"

Maud Carter @fossilheads As a queer parent, I assure you: people inquiring who gave birth to which child, who’s the real mom, where’s the dad, etc. intend to delegitimize our family. It’s homophobia.

Of course the comments are a trashfire - it's sooo bad for children to actually be wanted: Older woman has baby ❌ Lesbian couple has baby ❌ Gay male couple has baby ❌❌ Trans woman has baby ❌❌❌ Any woman who deffo doesn't want a baby so wants to end her pregnancy ❌❌❌❌

What a disgrace. The NHS is denying the material reality of categories in taxonomy that humans came up with to classify individuals on the basis of observed traits, suggesting that these categories themselves are not objects of perception. Utterly deranged.

Who gets to translate who? After #Booker International Prizewinning author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld quit as the Dutch translator of inauguration poet Amanda Gorman’s work, ✨ ponders the importance of care—and the politics at stake—in translation: readmyworld.nl/an-editors-not…

Lot of people uptight about kink at Pride and I've gotta say I've never been worried by what my kids see at Pride. I'm way more worried about them seeing that kids their age are being blown up in Gaza or drowning in the sea and that so many adults think that's OK, to be honest.

Studiossa koko päivän, mutta #mittaontäysi

#ectoplasm @fossilheads