love days like this on Twitter, when queer theorists make a point which is clearly not meant to be read literally and everyone decides that not only was it literal but it was actually advocating for beastiality or whatever the fuck

do admire sophie lewis's commitment to this though. I swear the exact same thing happened several months ago but here she is, getting right back into it. outstanding performance

to correct the first tweet bc @regresssion is right: it was clearly meant literally but not as advocacy for penetrative sex with an octopus, but to trouble our conceptions of cross-species intimacies and relations and to suggest ways they could be rethought