#sex education joanna

[fandomgalore-blog]

Just finished the series finale of Sex Education! I hate to see this marvelous show go, but all good things must come to an end. Here are some of my thoughts:

- This show had the best ending for all of the characters. The thing I admired most was how realistic it felt. Literally none of the oc’s ended up with anyone by the end of the show except Aimee and Isaac, Cal didn’t feel comfortable yet due to dysmorphia, Maeve will probably never know if her brother is okay, etc. I’m such a sucker for realism in shows when it’s done well, so I enjoyed that aspect

- Everyone had fantastic growth, but my favorite was definitely Ruby and the Groff men. Absolutely loved that they weren’t fully at their best potential by the end, but it’s obvious they’re trying, and I love them all for that

- I felt bad for Ruby and Maeve the most during the whole season. Both are facing loneliness in different formats

- I like that Maeve stood up for herself against the writing teacher

- I actually don’t like that a good chunk of the cast just straight up wasn’t there for the final season, but the show did a good job with the new characters filling in their spots

- This is a continuation of the first point, but I loved that Ruby didn’t end up befriending Otis by the end since she realized he’d always unintentionally make her feel bad about herself. Usually shows go for the happily ever after and enemies to friends thing, but this show kept it real. Good for you Ruby

- This show is really good at making antagonist. O pissed me off so much

-Loved Isaac and Aimee’s relationship a lot

- Adam was so adorable and so were his parents

-Such a sucker for the estrangement period Otis and Eric went through cuz that happens sometimes when two friends realize just how different they are

-Eric’s storyline was so much fun when it came to the whole Christianity Vs sexuality debate. I loved that they made god a beautiful black goddess (literally)

- Glad Viv got rid of that loser before it got worse

- I feel like we still didn’t get a lot of Cal, but that could just be me

- That was the most unserious yet serious funeral I’ve ever seen and that woman needs to be fired cuz how do you mess up the deceased’s name before the service in front of the dead’s daughter???

- I like the realism of Jackson’s father rejecting him. Sometimes the birth parents just don’t accept you. It sucks ass, but it’s something a lot of ppl unfortunately face when they search for their birth parent(s). Glad he has his moms at least

- This season made me realize how many enemies Otis has lol

- Watching Joanna and Jean’s scenes gave me life tbh

- I loved the protest for making sure the school provided proper care for disabled students. It’s ridiculous they didn’t fix the elevator or ensure deaf students are catered to when there’s alarms ringing, etc.

- The final scene was the perfect send off for this show

All in all, great season finale for a great show. I will miss this show with every fiber of my being, and I hope Netflix will create something as good as it in the future. I might add or subtract to this list, but for now, this is it.

[homosandhomies]

otis and the gang whilst hearing a raw in-depth conversation about his aunt’s sexual trauma and his mom’s postpartum depression

[thextruths]

[khaleesiofalicante]

Fave Bits from the Fourth & Final Season of Sex Education

The continuation and climax of Amy's healing journey. I'm so so glad they took their time with it - that they didn't show that you can just 'get over' or 'move on' on from abuse and assault just like that.

Adam and his Dad - I REALLY liked that Adam's character arc this season was him mending his relationship with his dad. I was worried he'd get a romance arc before he was ready or worked on his relationships with his father. But they didn't take that road at all. Parental trauma is a bitch. Well done acknowledging that.

THE DISABILITY REP. FUCK YEAH.

Queerness and faith. One of my favorite topics to write and read about. I loved Eric's journey in this season!

Jean and Joanna - I always get emotional over sibling rep because the things siblings go through together (and the need to heal together - but in your own way too) is not shown enough in a lot of media. I loved it!!

Emotionally abusive boyfriends - I needed to see this! People need to see this! Emotional abuse in relationships is so normalized and also trivialized (compared to physical/sexual abuse). Viv and Beau storyline was important!!!

[loremori]

Martin Freeman (18/366)

Ilya - Bellissimo (2004) Album "They died for beauty".

*Ilya are a duo from Bristol, England. The band consists of Joanna Swan and Nick Pullin.

¨We signed to Virgin in 2002 and in 2003 we bought the rights for this film to be used with our song Bellissimo. The film was originally called Round About Five and made by Thomas and Charlie Guard and though it wasn't made with the song in mind it turned out to be a perfect fit".

"Filmed prior to Martin Freeman becoming huge by playing a small Hobbit and Lena Heady the brilliant, conniving, Cersei in Game Of Thrones and Alistair Petri the headmaster in the popular Netflix series Sex Education".

He looks very young 💞.

[reusedrobescostumes]

This Yellow Robe is worn in Marvel’s Runaways two times, First worn on Virginia Gardner as Karolina Dean in Double Zeros (2018) and worn again on Allegra Acosta as Molly Hernandez in Last Waltz (2018)

The Robe is worn in Sex Education four times, First worn on Daniel Ings as Dan in Season 1 Episode 1 (2019) and worn on Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn in Season 1 Episode 1 (2019) and worn on Mikael Pers­brandt as Jakob Ny­man in Season 1 Episode 7 (2019) and last worn on Lisa McGrillis as Joanna in Season 4 Episode 7 (2023)

[retrieve-the-kraken]

Okay, I just finished watching Sex Education, and I will be honest, I was very… underwhelmed.

I know this show means a lot to a lot of people, and I can see why, and I liked parts of it, but to me it started out very strong and ended so disappointingly.

I was captivated by the struggles of some of the characters, by how their stories were weaved into one another, but that’s easier to do when you have a handful of characters. By season 3, there were so many characters, and the creators seemingly insisted on developing each individual storyline as profoundly as possible, but that just resulted in stories being presented and resolved in a rush, sometimes inexplicably, and it all felt just very clunky. I tried to suspend my disbelief of how time passed in this universe, how one storyline seems to be moving slower than another in the span of the same day, but it became so glaringly obvious that it came down to shoddy editing, and too many loose ends to trie to tie up.

By season 4, I didn’t have enough time to connect with anyone new, didn’t feel like any of the new characters was actually given enough time and space to unfold properly. It was just jam-packed with tropes and themes and difficult topics that deserved much better development. Like Cal’s dysphoria, or Viv’s abusive relationship, or Isaac’s and Aisha’s disabilities, or O’s asexuality, or even Jean and Joanna’s difficult relationship and Jean’s postpartum depression (in fact, I feel like Jean really got done dirty this season, because she was an interesting character the whole way, and she went through a lot, she almost died, she’s going through massive heartbreak, and those things are never addressed again except that one little moment, and Otis is THE ABSOLUTE WORST to her in this season…)

And that did not happen, of course, to the characters from the first two seasons, they got to be fully developed and nuanced and you get to examine their whole stories and they make sense. You get to see Aimee deal and come to terms and put behind her the sexual assault, you get to see Maeve get out and then have massive doubts about her talent and see her dreams interrupted once more by her mother’s overdose and her brother going down the same path; you get to see Eric come fully into his own skin with his sexuality and struggle with the fact that he might have to choose between that and his community; you get to see Adam go from bully to realizing his sexuality to realizing what has made him into a bully to trying to change and be honest to himself and others; you get to see why Ruby is the way she is but also that it’s all just a front and why it’s hard for her to not put up walls.

It felt like, by season 3, the creators were just ticking boxes: non-binary character, check; trans characters, check; characters with disabilities, check; boy with two mums inexplicably wanting to find their biological father, check… It felt a little like (and I swear this comparison hurts me the most) watching Glee.

(Remember Glee? Most people would say ‘well Glee walked so that Sex Education and Heartstopper and Young Royals, etc could run’… No, unfortunately it feels more like Glee took two steps and then stumbled horrible so that these other shows could run. And sadly, in my opinion, Sex Education didn’t fair much better…).

It made me sad to learn about how LGBTQIA+ activist and ace representative Yasmin Benoit collaborated with the Sex Education creators to create a character that was a well-rounded representation of the asexual community, but in the end they turned her into the season’s villain and for no good reason. I understand people’s frustration with that, especially Yasmin’s, because it felt like it could have been handled much better. And as an acespec person myself I would have been more upset about this too, were it not for the fact that everything else was so bad in comparison that O being turned into a villain felt like the least of this season’s problems.

Something else that bothered me was that, whilst Sex Education is a satire and a lot of the characters are caricatures (like Ruby being the popular glamorous bitch with her two cronies who do everything she says, and Aimee is the bimbo with the heart of gold, and Mr Groff is the stuffy narrow-minded professor, and Lily is the unashamed weird girl, etc), there is a fine line between caricature and cartoon, and some of the characters went too far. Like Hope in season 3 was too much of a cartoon villain, and Molloy being the admirable but former literature sensation who is brutally harsh with his students; and Beau going from flirty to abusive in .5 seconds; and Joanna being the over-the-top disaster person. There is no further substance to these people, they are just there to fulfill a role as a foe to one of the main characters, but the lack of realism makes them very underwhelming, and all the plots associated with them become predictable and boring…

And this might be a very unpopular opinion but… at first the whole Otis and Maeve thing, although clichéd, seemed like a nice idea, but the more time passed, and especially with the way that Otis became in the last season, by the end of it I really didn’t like it at all. It felt like Maeve deserved a lot better.

Otis was a somewhat interesting character in the beginning, and I could sympathize with him for all his flaws and the way that he tried to help people but ultimately couldn’t deal with his own shit. But it was so frustrating to see him making the same mistakes over and over, to the point where it affected his relationship with everyone important, from his mum to his best friend to his girlfriend.

Not that the show had to be perfect. No show is perfect, but it truly felt like the creators had a really good idea but didn’t figure out how to wrap it up, and promptly cornered themselves and then were fighting their way out of that corner…

My favorite things about the show, though, were:

-Anything with Eric (except maybe that whole thing about him and his bully becoming a thing, because that was disturbing, but I really really liked when Otis brought this up, and I really really hated when Eric got defensive about it, and I also reaaaaally hated when Eric got mad at Adam for not wanting to have anal sex, like he didn’t even want to talk about it, you’re better than that, Eric Effiong).

-Despite this, Adam and Eric not having a happy ending together was a breath of fresh air, because as much as they were cute together (I just reaaaaally wish Adam hadn’t been the former bully) they weren’t right for each other.

-Aimee’s whole journey from being with Adam to being with Steve, to ditching the Untouchables for a meaningful friendship with Maeve, to exploring what she wanted to do, to coming to terms with her assault, to discovering art as a way to express herself. She really is one of my favorite characters.

-Colin and Ms Sands were my absolute favorites too, and them coming back for one episode, and Colin playing With Or Without You at the funeral. And Ms Sands always wanting Maeve to fulfill her potential, and trying to help Adam and even coming to see him in the dog show.

-Any moment when Eric is just fabulous, especially wearing that kilt at the queer night club. Ncuti Gatwa is truly one of the most beautiful men in this world, and he just can’t help but sparkle. He is the sparkly one.

-And as I said before, Adam’s poem to Eric, absolutely broke my heart.

-I loved the set design and costume design on the show, it was so unexpected for everything to feel so old-fashioned, and I wonder if there’s a meaning to that. Also, Jean and Otis’s house is my absolute dream house. I do wonder however what happened to all the penis and vagina decoration.

-I really liked the variety of characters and how we got a diversity of storylines and tackled a lot of important topics, but I just wished they had done a better job at it.

That’s about it. This turned out way longer than I expected. But I’d been putting off watching this show for so long, despite how relevant it became, and was really disappointed that I didn’t like it as much, so I had to vent.

[asadfangirlbitxh]

I loved about Sex Education Season 4

1) Jackson whooped for Otis

2) Otis and Joy

3) Cal deciding to go to Otis

4) Eric calling Otis Oatcake

5) Mr Groff working on himself

6) Jackson trying to help Otis in the gym ( even if he says he doesn't like him after)

7) Jackson saying Otis is good at being a sex therapist

8) Hannah Gadsby Appearance

9) Mr Groff apologising to Adam

10) Isaac's face everytime Aimee said something

11) Everytime Adam, Aimee or Eric were on screen

12) Ruby being an icon

13) Queer Friend Groups ruling the school

14) Adam Coming out to Mr. Groff and Mr. Groff being such a dad about it

15) Otis trying to dress up for queer night

16) Otis staying with Ruby because her dad left

17) Cal and Aisha

18) Aimee and Otis waiting outside for Maeve and bonding

19) Adam and the horse finally getting along

20) Aimee making cupcakes for Maeve

21) Eric and the soup kitchen

22) Adam and Ruby watching the same shows

23) Aimee inviting the Moordale Crew and them showing up

24) Eric smiling when he found out Adam works with horses

25) Isaac finding Maeve and standing up for Aimee

26) O being vulnerable

27) MAEVE AND JEAN

28) Jackson being there for Viv

29) Students standing up for Isaac and Aisha

30) All students rallying to find Cal

31) Eric's Speech

32) Aimee and Isaac being there for Viv

33) Eric and Jackson being there for Cal

34) The fact that nepo baby Ellen helped Maeve

35) Joanne and Jean <3

36) AIMEEEE BURNING THOSE JEANS

37) Melon being worth 125 pounds

38) FOR CAL (the whole benefit)

39) Otis redeeming himself <3

40) RUBY IN HER OUTFITS !! ICON

41) ERIC'sMAKE UP AND LOOKS

42) Groff family watching TV for a bit

43) Maeve getting her dream

44) Maeve's letter :(

Things I didn't like

The lack of interaction between the Moordale Students

Eric uninviting Otis

No Closure for Ola, Lily and Jakob

I miss Ola and Adam

Adam not mixing with Moordale kids as much

Joanna ruining the OTIS-MAEVE Date

Beau and Viv

Anything with Abbi (she redeems herself at the end but idk I still found her grating)

The fact that this is the first time MAEVE HAS MET JEAN

Adam looking at Eric and Eric looking at Otis :(

Otis and Maeve breaking up (It's realistic and makes sense but it hurt my heart)

Otis acting like a child with his mum and Ruby

Mr Molloy

Otis not apologizing to Ruby

Jackson's DAD

[reusedtvseriescostumes]

This Yellow Robe is worn in Marvel’s Runaways two times, First worn on Virginia Gardner as Karolina Dean in Double Zeros (2018) and worn again on Allegra Acosta as Molly Hernandez in Last Waltz (2018)

The Robe is worn in Sex Education four times, First worn on Daniel Ings as Dan in Season 1 Episode 1 (2019) and worn on Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn in Season 1 Episode 1 (2019) and worn on Mikael Pers­brandt as Jakob Ny­man in Season 1 Episode 7 (2019) and last worn on Lisa McGrillis as Joanna in Season 4 Episode 7 (2023)

[stitched-mouth]

SEX EDUCATION SEASON 4 SPOILERS EPISODE 5

If you’ve not watched up to 25 minutes of episode 5 and don’t want spoiler, don’t continue. I don’t cover everything here but still.

Still watching Sex Education, on episode 5, and O just came out and I hate her even more.

I really hope no one says Otis outed her. And her asexuality doesn’t explain what she did to Ruby.

Fuck O, there’s no hope for me liking her now. I’m literally red in the face and getting a headache from anger.

If she’s supposed to make me punch my TV then the actress is doing a great job.

Also where the fuck is Lily and Ola? And are they trying to set up Joanna with Joy’s possible father? Is there going to be a big reveal? I’m scared about Joy’s father…

Also poor Yacob(?).

[triviareads]

There's historical romance with he bent her over the desk and ducks her from behind?

There are lots! Generally what I've found is, you'll get the good stuff if you venture outside Julia Quinn's body of work because her heroes tend to have an ingrained madonna-whore complex that prevents them from doing any bending-over to the *ladies*. Also just to note, this is strictly "bending over desk" moments, which does not include any other kind of desk sex or any furniture that is not a desk (...for the most part).

The Duke Who Knew Too Much by Grace Callaway: Alaric's solution to Emma dictating far too many terms of their engagement in his opinion is to bend her over, toss her skirts up, and finger her while(?) she gives him a handjob. Winners.

Always Be My Duchess by Amalie Howard: This one is actually so hot because of how desperate they were; Montcroix is so taken with Neve's ballet performance that he drags her backstage in a public theater and bends her over a random desk before going for it.

The Truth About Cads and Dukes by Elisa Braden: Harrison and Jane do have sex earlier in the book with her on a desk, but later on, there's a very emotional "make-or-break-our-marriage" sex scene with her bent over a desk and going like "you're going to say I love you by the time this is over" and he's like "noooo" but by the time he's climaxing he's practically chanting it.

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare: A classic; he bends her over and tries to make recite all his courtesy titles (marquess of this, earl of that, etc.) in order while fucking her but she fails so he does it and he ends it with "and your SLAVE" which was the hottest part imo

The Rogue of Fifth Avenue by Joanna Shupe: Mamie waltzes into Frank's office and taunts him until he cracks, bends her over, and goes to town. This is basically in line with their overall dynamic.

The Design of Dukes by Kathleen Ayers: Okay so he bent her over a sewing table but to be fair, it is where she works so it's kind of her desk(?). But I'm including it because it's so so hot as this man's sternness on full display and he very calmly tells her he's going to fix himself and their engagement while railing her from behind. AND it doubles as a mirror scene.

If you count "table in library" as a desk, then The Education of Ivy Leavold by Sierra Simone fits the bill.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Andrew Doyle

Published: May 4, 2023

What happened to the art of disagreement? In 2017, I addressed this very question in my stand-up show, Thought Crimes, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. My main topic was the aftermath of the Brexit vote and how so many of my friends had developed a strange new determination to reduce all political disputes to a matter of good vs evil, with those who voted to leave the EU falling firmly in the latter camp. I felt there was something inherently amusing about this sudden surge of mass infantilism.

I performed the show every evening during the fringe at The Stand comedy club, and I very much enjoyed working with such a pleasant and professional team. I remember, on one occasion, chatting to a member of staff who completely disagreed with my political views. The conversation was stimulating and, above all, amiable. Had I suggested at the time that, just a few years later, a show at this same venue would be cancelled because members of staff found the opinions of those involved offensive, she would have laughed. I’m confident that nobody at The Stand, either performers or staff, would have considered this a remote possibility. Surely it would be absurd for a comedy club, of all places, to reject the principle of free speech?

Yet this is precisely what happened this week when The Stand cancelled the booking of SNP politician Joanna Cherry, who had been scheduled to appear as part of the club’s ‘In Conversation With’ series. Cherry is a lesbian who campaigned against Section 28, and has recently been vocal about the threat to women’s rights and single-sex spaces posed by the rise of gender-identity ideology. This is her thoughtcrime.

If I were keeping a tally of Things I Never Thought Would Happen, it would by now have grown too long to maintain. When I performed that show in 2017, I had assumed that I was observing a momentary glitch, and that within the year everyone would be shaking their heads and laughing about their brief bout of hysteria. I was wrong. The insane tribalism of the Brexit vote was merely a symptom of a much more worrying trend, and we have since allowed ourselves to descend into a Manichean world of angels and devils.

My book, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World, is my attempt to grapple with this disturbing new reality. A new paperback edition has been published this week, and I had hoped that by this point, it would already have started to seem out of date. In truth, the problems I describe in the book are accelerating. Novels by Roald Dahl, PG Wodehouse and Agatha Christie have since been rewritten by ‘sensitivity readers’ (newspeak for ‘censors’). The Irish government is currently passing new hate-speech laws that are similarly draconian to those passed by the Scottish government in 2021. Prestigious scientific journals are publishing pseudoscience in order to uphold this new ideology, too. Only this week the Scientific American ran a piece entitled ‘Here’s why human sex is not binary’, illustrated with an image of the male and female gametes that prove that it is.

It’s difficult to keep up with these baffling developments. Most of us have noticed the rise of this new ideology that is now dominant in all of our major cultural, educational, political and corporate institutions. We can see that its impact is divisive, regressive and illiberal, and yet it describes itself using progressive-sounding terminology, such as ‘social justice’, ‘anti-racism’ and ‘equity’. When language becomes unmoored from meaning, we are all at risk of mistaking change for progress.

We have seen that the disciples of this new religion are pushing for more and more censorship, whether that be through the cancellation of comedians, the deletion of potentially offensive scenes in old television shows, or stronger ‘hate speech’ laws. We have seen women physically assaulted for standing up for their sex-based rights. We have seen how anyone who questions the new orthodoxies jeopardises their career prospects and risks being publicly shamed. The existence of what we now call ‘cancel culture’ is often denied by those who indulge in it the most, but its list of casualties expands by the day.

Those of us who are taking a stand against these cultural revolutionaries are often told that we should just ignore them. Who cares if a few zealots are demanding that we attend ‘unconscious bias’ training sessions? Who cares if civil servants and teachers and staff at the BBC are being encouraged to announce their pronouns in emails and at the beginning of meetings? Who cares if the Ministry of Defence is holding LGBTQIA+ coffee mornings to discuss pansexuality? If we let them get on with it, the logic goes, all of this will just go away.

But this is very wrong. If we ignore these developments, the culture warriors won’t fade away – they’ll win. These activists are promoting an authoritarian creed, and are doing untold damage to our world, while believing they are making it better. If your toddler starts smashing up the crockery, you don’t just politely wait for it to finish. Sometimes you have to intervene in order to prevent further damage.

I wrote The New Puritans in the hope that the book would become obsolete. Judging from recent events, this won’t be happening any time soon.

[coldweatherhater]

the sex education final season is just.. disappointing???? i mean it's not bad, but for the quality this show has/had, it's just not it. the new school was unnecessary, they had to develop new characters and dynamics and i guess they should've focused on the main characters and their development more, also i don't think this season is as fun as the past ones, i used to have so much fun w this show and in this season i was bored some times so.. guess the only characters that i felt satisfied w their development was eric (loved it soo much), aimee (my absolutely favorite), maeve (i guess it was kinda rushy her plot etc etc but i really loved her ending and her moment w jean was amazing), jean and joanna dynamics is also one of my favorite things this season and i really liked their "end", michael and adam dynamics also a great thing (still michael shouldn't had gotten back w maureen a huge NO for me), guess that's it. so many characters simply disappeared lmao, loved to see jackson and viv and their friendship is amazing, but i just feel they don't explore jackson as much as they should, cal too, i mean they kinda developed all their struggles etc, but cal deserved more. ruby was kinda just there (?), after last season and how they completely forgot about her for the second half of it, i thought she was having a bit more screen time etc, but it didn't happen, i will miss her. and about otis, i think he had a good development, wished to see more of him w jean, but good he understood eric issues and how he always makes everything about him, the same w maeve, he figured out he needs to think more about others and not put his needs above everything else, but i think they also should have worked this whole thing in a better way, as it basically only happens in the last ep, but good they did. generally, i think it was a good season, but as the finale, it definitely could've been better, they should have focused more on the main characters and not so much in this new school, that's why i feel "incomplete", as if I'm not fully satisfied with the end and how it did not make justice to how amazing this show is, is kinda of a forgettable ending, and this show deserved way more!

[myheartalivewrites]

get to know me

Thanks for tagging me @heybuddy-drabbles @14carrotghoul @daisymae-12 💜 I fear this is all pretty dull but here we go!

name: no, lol! my first initial really is m though, so there's that

sign: capricorn and i'm a total skeptical and put no stock by it, which i'm told makes me a stereotypical capricorn (along with some other traits of mine like being organised, reliable, practical, risk-averse) so a win for those who DO believe.

time: 13.55

favourite band/artist: Joanna Newsom

last movie: watched the second Downton Abbey movie the other day

last show: i'm currently watching 3 UK shows as they air: Bake-Off, Taskmaster and Strictly and Sex Education

when I created this blog: late in 2022 somepoint. i had an older one from like 2012 which i'd completely forgotten about and promptly deleted when i logged back in

other blogs: none currently

do I get asks: i've had a few lately about Deep Blue, which has been so gratifying, esp the anon who wanted to know about some stuff that had happened off-page 😘 loved that. other than that i like doing ask games, though i'm trying to keep distractions to a minimum as i ramp up my NaNo research (let's pretend i'm not currently answering this game)

average hours of sleep: 6-7? I thrive on 8 but my brain often insists on being up at like 4 unfortunately

instruments: acoustic guitar, which i played all through high school, but these days only pick up about once a year when we decide to have a family jam. luckily the muscle memory holds

what I’m wearing: pyjamas and a fuzzy jumper and leg warmers and sitting under a blanket bc the weather in England has TURNED but i'm being stubborn and putting off switching the central heating on

dream job: be a writer. live in paris. (kidding abut the second bit, but not the first 😊)

[thekotaroo]

Profiles of Pride: June 17th! 🏳️‍🌈Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark🏳️‍🌈

Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark (born 1938, in Pontiac, Michigan) is the main mover of the AIDS Education and Global Information System database, previously a pre-World Wide Web bulletin board system.

Clark was born in June 1938 in Pontiac, Michigan and assigned male at birth.

In 1957, she enlisted in the United States Navy and rose to the rank of chief petty officer (E-7), serving as an instructor in anti-submarine warfare. Clark had an 11-year marriage which produced a son, but ended acrimoniously.

She married again, and later revealed her gender dysphoria to her second wife, who helped her through self-identifying as female. Upon learning of her psychological evaluations, the Navy discharged her honorably. In 1975 she underwent a sex reassignment surgery and took the name Joanna Michelle Clark.

A U.S. Army Reserves recruiter who was aware that she was transgender enlisted her as a woman in the Army in 1976. A year and a half later, she was nominated for promotion to warrant officer. Her enlistment was voided when her transgender status became known to higher-ups. She brought suit against the Army and won a settlement of $25,000 and an honorable discharge.

During the 1970s, she was an activist for the rights of transsexual people and was instrumental in winning the right of Californians to have their gender changed on their birth certificates and driver licenses. In 1980, she founded and led the ACLU Transsexual Rights Committee.

She had been raised Southern Baptist, but left the church due to disillusionment with racism in its congregations. In the 1980s, she felt a religious calling and worked to become an Episcopal sister. Conflict with the Episcopal diocese over the validity of the order she sought to found led to her leaving the denomination shortly after she took her vows in 1988, and she later became a sister of the American Catholic Church, a small independent Christian denomination following Catholic rites.

Also in the 1980s she continued the work of the Erickson Educational Foundation, aiding transgender people.

In 1990, inspired by meeting an isolated young man with AIDS in rural Missouri, she returned to her family home in San Juan Capistrano, California, taking on the bulletin board system AEGIS begun by Jamie Jemison and eventually building it into the "most definitive – and perhaps the most accessible – source of information on" AIDS.

She is the recipient of the Award of Courage from the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights from the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, the Crystal Heart award from the San Diego GLBT Center and the Joan of Arc award from the Orange County Community Foundation.

[dear-indies]

hello! could you maybe suggest alts for emma roberts? like her badass vibe as madison montgomery?

Devon Aoki (1982) Japanese / English, German.

Dichen Lachman (1982) Tibetan / German.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) Afican-American - The Idol.

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese - Titans.

Ritu Arya (1988) Indian - The Umbrella Academy.

JuJu Chan (1989) Hongkonger - in Wu Assassins and Fistful of Vengeance.

Mishel Prada (1989) Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, and Mexican [Spanish, Portuguese, African, Indigenous], some French - Vida.

Cassandra Naud (1992) - is queer - Influencer.

Billie Lourd (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, German, Cajun/French - Scream Queens.

Zión Moreno (1992) Mexican [Including Unspecified Native American and Spanish] - is trans.

Sky Ferreira (1992) Ojibwe, Cree, Chippewa Cree, Cheyenne, Brazilian of Portuguese and Possibly Other descent, Galician Jewish, Bukovina Jewish, Irish, Scottish, English, and French - has Chronic Lyme Disease.

Hari Nef (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - is trans - Assassination Nation.

Pınar Deniz (1993) Turkish [Lebanese] - in Aktris.

Jesse James Keitel (1993) - is trans.

Elizabeth Gillies (1993) - Dynasty.

Lily Mae Harrington (1993) - Single Drunk Female.

Jodie Comer (1993) - Killing Eve.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo (1994) Chinese / Italian - Day Shift.

Julia Garner (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.

Adeline Rudolph (1995) Korean / German - Resident Evil.

Sasha Calle (1995) Colombian.

Tati Gabrielle (1996) African-American, ¼ Korean - Chilling Adventures with Sabrina, Uncharted.

Miyoshi Ayaka (1996) Japanese - Alice in Borderland.

Joy Sunday (1996) Nigerian - Wednesday.

Emma Mackey (1996) - Sex Education.

Anya Taylor-Joy (1996) - The Menu, Peaky Blinders.

Florence Pugh (1996) - Black Widow.

Mia Goth (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish, Brazilian [Portuguese, including Azorean, small amount of African, possibly other] / English, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian - Infinity Pool.

Daniela Nieves (1997) Venezuelan - Vampire Academy.

Maisie Williams (1997)

Ivanna Sakhno (1997)

Madelyn Cline (1997) - Glass Onion.

Joanna Pincerato (1998) Mexican, Syrian. Swedish and Italian.

Auli'i Cravalho (2000) Puerto Rican, Kānaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian, Portuguese, Chinese, Irish - is bisexual - Darby and the Dead.

Devyn Nekoda (2000) Japanese / English, Welsh - Scream.

Josie Totah (2001) Palestinian / Lebanese, Italian, Irish, German - is trans.

Zoey Luna (2001) Mexican - is trans.

Here you go!