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Author, journalist, feminist, nerd. Screenwriter: The Haunting Of Bly Manor, The Nevers, Carnival Row. Latest book: 'Bitch Doctrine'. Patreon below. they/she

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Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Nov 5

    We live in an age of zombie patriarchy, haunted and hunted by a rotting parody of white male power. White male supremacy is dead, but it doesn’t know it. It doesn’t have the capacity to accept that it’s over. All it knows how to do is rage and feed and kill.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    The Communist Manifesto.

    What’s the best book on Margaret Thatcher
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  3. 4 hours ago

    The small gods of autocorrect keep substituting ‘heroes’ for ‘herpes’. There’s some sort of lesson about life choices in there.

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    9 hours ago

    ‘as every relationship devolved into a power struggle, over who was smarter or stronger or tougher or more accomplished or more talented or just more important, it became clear that the men who thought they loved me were looking for a girl who wasn’t there’

    Oh, no, it's a Personal Essay: I wrote about my husband, transitioning while married, and not knowing what kind of gay I am:
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  5. Retweeted
    18 Nov 2019

    Me aged 33, watching - ‘I want to live in a penthouse, with a monkey, and be feared by those who have wronged me, and tinker with dangerous and forbidden magics on my giant balcony while wearing exquisite silk pyjamas.’

    Me aged ten, reading - ‘I want to be a bold adventurer, journeying to the far north with a merry band of witches and pirates to liberate the downtrodden and discover the true nature of the universe.’
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  6. 8 hours ago

    This opinion brought to you by the summer I spent as a schools outreach camp counsellor, where I had to be the one to eat the crickets at the science demonstration, and they tasted of artificial bacon bits.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    Also, non-insect-eating cultures shouldn’t wait for the collapse of existing food supply chains to start eating insects, because insects are delicious and good for you and might help save the planet.

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  8. 8 hours ago

    (Thread stolen shamelessly from beloved )

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  9. 8 hours ago

    Harmlessly controversial opinion thread! Give me your strongly held beliefs on low-stakes subjects. I’ll start: Honestly, it really doesn’t matter how you pronounce the word ‘scone’.

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  10. 9 hours ago

    I just think you should all know that and are really good friends who come to the rescue when, just for example, you decided to Go Outdoors for an Adventure and it was so cold your hands weren’t working and your car key snapped off in the lock.

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  11. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    ”If you think it’s acceptable for your neighbour to be shot dead in the street and he thinks it isn’t, that is not a difference of opinion that can or should be resolved through civilised debate.”

    ‘We don’t have to pay attention to abusers anymore.’ - me, on the beginning of the end of MAGA, for
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  12. Retweeted
    Nov 14

    “Despots are like erections: spineless things that tend to deflate when nobody takes them seriously.” Love this about , from 🙌🏻

    "There are moments when you can see the screen jump as history switches to a new reel." on the end of the abuser-in-chief.
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  13. Nov 14

    ‘Yes, America and the world have a lot of healing to do. But the healing has to start with those who have been most hurt, rather than those shout the loudest.’-

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  14. Nov 14

    ‘We don’t have to pay attention to abusers anymore.’ - me, on the beginning of the end of MAGA, for

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    Nov 14

    "There are moments when you can see the screen jump as history switches to a new reel." on the end of the abuser-in-chief.

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  16. Nov 14

    He was a sharp-suited transmasc rogue with a great debt to pay. They were a silver-tongued AMAB siren with a dark secret. She was a small town cis girl (or was she?!) looking for a little danger. In an underground bar one night in Soho, their lives were about to change forever!

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  17. Nov 14

    The ‘Transgender Crays Seducing Our Daughters’ is the queer 1960s British gangster high-stakes romance thriller I didn’t know I wanted to see but might now have to write. * Also, trans lives are not up for debate, and transphobia is not a respectable progressive position.

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  18. Retweeted
    Nov 13

    Please, don't travel for the Holidays. We are at the very beginning of a gargantuan surge in in the U.S.

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  19. Nov 13

    Via . Perfection.

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    Nov 13

    Transphobes can't stop prefacing things with "why, if I were a teenager today" so I made my fellow old people this hip meme

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    Nov 13

    A bad day for the Daily Mail, a good day for

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