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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Wow, I... don't like this? I generally don't mind characters being revamped to be more inclusionary but there's something about the Joan of Arc story specifically that feels like the subversive womanness is really important/inherent, making her nonbinary weakens this theme.
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Shakespeare’s Globe
@The_Globe
Our new play I, Joan shows Joan as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’. We are not the first to present Joan in this way, and we will not be the last. We can't wait to share this production with everyone and discover this cultural icon. bit.ly/GlobeIdentityI
A graphic of a person who is covered in dirt and grime, their chest is bound and they wring their hands. A chainmail helmet covers their eyes. They stand in front of a purple background with text above their head reading I, JOAN in large white letters.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@zorangecats
idk this is kinda an extreme example but it feels like making rosa parks hispanic if you don't like it, you don't have to see it, she's not being stolen and depictions of her as a black woman will undoubtedly continue but it still feels like it's insulting the story?
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OrangeCat 5000
@zorangecats
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@Aella_Girl
nonbinary people have near zero representation in old stories because of the enforced gender binary they don't have much of their own old stories because those stories have been suppressed
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@zorangecats
Women who led armies like Joan of Arc also have near zero representation in old stories! There's such a miniscule number of them, why steal from one underrepresented group for another? Take from a larger group
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Bizarro Romney
@Bizarro_Romney
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@zorangecats
Rosa Parks is an example that undermines your argument. Rosa Parks was chosen for optics. Claudette Colvin could have been the case. But Rosa Parks was specifically chosen because Colvin was unmarried and pregnant at the time. You choosing a cishet Joan of Arc is no different.