doctor who coming back in the year of 2023 when terfism and biological essentialism and transphobia are on the rise and making one of THE most hyped up episodes by bringing back fan favorites david tennant and catherine tate. all about being trans
showing rose being bullied and her grandma struggling to get it right but still being supportive. and shaun and donna being the greatest parents by being ready to burn the world down to protect their daughter. the doctor asking for the meep’s pronouns AND IT’S NORMAL???
and all of that is brilliant to see rose as a trans character and it is important to the narrative. BUT THEN. ROSE BEING TRANS SAVES DONNA’S LIFE BY TAKING HALF OF THE METACRISIS. BECAUSE THE DOCTOR IS MALE AND FEMALE AND NEITHER AND MORE. AND THAT IS INTEGRAL TO DOCTOR WHO AS A WHOLE. and it saved donna’s life
to see doctor who be so BLATANTLY trans and nonbinary at the core of the series. the multiple references to the fact that before fourteen, thirteen was a woman. so to see this? trans people stay winning. thank you doctor who for doubling down on the importance of the doctor being trans because oh my god I am so emotional about this
To say being a Martha Jones fan from 2007-2017 was hard would be an understatement. The fandom claimed she was too clingy. Too jealous of Rose. Too bitter. Too bad a companion. For as long as I can remember, Martha Jones wasn’t just an unpopular companion – she was THE unpopular companion. So this recent increase in “my issues with [insert companion of colour here] isn’t about race. Everybody loved Martha Jones!” has me raising an eyebrow. Freema Agyeman as part of Ofcom’s Diversity In Broadcasting Event answered a question on her time as Doctor Who’s first Black companion. She describes her time as “good and bad”. She handled the criticism of Martha as a character “but the racism… yeah, yeah couldn’t rationalise that” as she pauses in the video. In the silence we get a clear answer – Freema Agyeman did not have an easy time as Doctor Who’s first Black companion. So when I see comments about how much she was loved, or how no one knew what Freema was going through when speaking out about the racism she experienced, or “My sus posts about Ryan & Yaz aren’t racist! I loved Martha!” I, and many other Black/mixed Black fans and other fans of colour have bad tastes in our mouths. We remember the real history of how Martha Jones was treated – and her history wasn’t a kind one.
one hundred percent correct, I was on LiveJournal in 2007 and Martha was hated before she was even on the show. I remember when the first pictures of her came out someone said she looked like a “chavvy whore” and that comment made it to LJ icons and the like. And as soon as someone created a Martha fan community, lifeonmartha, someone else made a comm called strifeonmartha to make fun of her and her fans. BEFORE SHE HAD BEEN INTRODUCED. (Life on Martha is actually still there!)
Martha hate lasted well into the Tumblr era of fandom and I can’t believe people are denying it now.
I saw few posts going around about superwholock being the peak queer baiting and how finally we have shows with complex queer characters and storylines… why do you have to put doctor who with the other two?
Did this mean nothing
This breaks my heart constantly. Doctor Who did Jack and the Doctor/Jack kiss only two years after Section 28 was repealed, when same-sex marriage was still illegal and kids called each other “gay” as an insult in the playground.
A really important part of queer television history and it just feels like it’s gone.
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