THREAD: Clem Ford quoted me in one of her pieces recently. I'm going to copy and paste what she wrote in the next part of this thread. Look at the similarities and consider how fed up Blak women are with white women co-opting and/or borrowing their work and thinking... https://twitter.com/clementine_ford/status/1197028133494329344

Ford's quote: "In fact, I spoke to Laura about this and she made the astute observation that Bandit is the basic level of what we should expect from men, and the fact he is sexualised and fetishised is a problematic insight into how low the bar is."

Note, I wrote a research-based piece on screen fathers and used Bandit as one of my case studies. Ford was well aware of this as we discussed it. A week later, she published a piece for 10Daily about wanting to fuck the cartoon dad, Bandit, and essentially rode on the back of...

my angle... She had cited my work in her piece but didn't tell me. It was only by chance that I found out an hour before it was published. I confronted her about it and she was extremely apologetic but had no explanation for it. We compromised and she'd said she'd include my...

comments which condemned the fetishizing of a cartoon dog who merely represents what men + fathers ought to be. This is not the first time Ford has 'borrowed' a Blak woman (or WOC's) work. Not sure if she knows what's her work, and what's other people's work anymore. Appaling.

Here is the link to my piece: https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/wheres-your-daddy-the-rise-and-fall-of-mediocre-on-screen-fathers/

Here is the link to Ford's piece (which came out about 2 weeks after mine). Just a bit of insight into what Blak women often have to contend with.

https://10daily.com.au/views/a190904skgwt/clementine-ford-bandit-in-bluey-is-the-ultimate-thirst-trap-20190904?fbclid=IwAR14PzkTwyNHMgu8mWrMxfZV_hLwWdnThvZspUia_gqn3oB1YmSfMf7u22k