Joyce Carol GOATs

There is one person on Twitter who’s capable of overcoming transphobia, and it’s the gross feet lady.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
4 min readFeb 21, 2023

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A brain wearing a crown. Look, I’m not the one who put it in the stock photo library.
PICTURED: Joyce Carol Oates’ evolution on trans issues. NOT PICTURED: Joyce Carol Oates. Photo by Gaspar Uhas on Unsplash

It’s easy to succumb to hopelessness, in this business of posting. You spend all day sticking your face in the soup of bad news and worse takes, watching progress erode and situations deteriorate. Over time, you lose faith that things can improve.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.