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Popped ENOLA HOLMES on while I worked today and loved it so much – @Milliestopshate is brilliant. The perfect shot of fun, feminism and floriography A little puzzled by

I've seen a few people surprised at there being guns in PRIORY.PRIORY is not a medieval fantasy. It's based on the 16th-17th century. Firearms were in widespread use (if slow

CW: miscarriage 1) There is nothing shameful in miscarriage. Anyone who shares their story it is both facing and helping to break down centuries of unfair and painful stigma, on

I'm working at a café and a guy on the next table is having the weirdest conversation about women he likes to kiss and have sex withSo far he's said

I’m always fascinated when people say they don’t read books about queer characters because they can’t relate.So if a queer character was, say, very happy because they got a promotion

Articles about falling fertility rates always make me nervous. Often, they seem to carry the dangerous implication that women’s education, presence in the workforce, and bodily autonomy – all good,

Over the past few days I've seen people describe European countries (including the UK) as if they're morally pure in comparison to America, and I can’t stop thinking about how

I sometimes wonder if fewer people would stay in unhappy relationships if society didn’t mock and stigmatise singleness to the extent that it does. I think we'd have a much

People seem to be very concerned about ‘unnecessary’ gay characters all of a sudden, like there haven't been thousands of unnecessary straight characters in the history of fiction. People also

Since everyone appears to be sleeping on it: Now seems like a good time to tell you all that there's a complete show on Amazon Prime, four seasons long, about

This has reminded me of my deep, visceral discomfort with the phrase ‘becoming a woman’ (or ‘you're a woman now’) and how it ties womanhood inextricably to sex and childbearing.https://twitter.com/veschwab/status/1252986339957575680

Tagged in another review saying the male characters in PRIORY are ‘poorly developed’ and overshadowed by the women. I still find this kind of response to the male characters really