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Claire Willett
@clairewillett
(she/her) Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. Twitter's gay Catholic aunt. Author of THE REWIND FILES. Sensational, ovational, boldly explorational. Protect trans kids.
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Sep 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
we are genuinely moving backwards on some of this

my dad was like, “30 years ago if a girl named Josephine decided she wanted to go by Jo at school, not a single person would be like ‘we should call her parents’”

now everything is like The Trans Agenda Is Destroying Our Youth I’m not saying anything other people haven’t said before and much more articulately, but, like. just thinking about this hypothetical Josephine deciding in 4th grade to cut her hair short, wear unisex clothes and start going by Jo, and how Trans Panic hurts kids of all genders
Sep 4, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I understand that “can a bad person make good art” is a thorny question, but I actually don’t believe that it’s possible to make good art from a place of outrage at having experienced consequences, which is why “canceled” people’s rebound work so often sucks Louis CK may have thought he won a moral victory by getting booked in clubs again, but people who were at those shows said he wasn’t funny

say what you will about Harry Potter, but JKR could never write a hit book NOW because she’s no longer a storyteller, she’s a propagandist
May 27, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
every once in awhile, when I post something in support of trans people, I get hate mail from people who assume *I* am trans and are gleeful at the chance to say slurs directly to a trans person's face, instead of just putting it out into the twittersphere

it's very grim it is horrible and ugly and awful and it's also, I think, instructive in two key ways:

1) hateful people cannot conceive of anyone defending the rights of a group they don't personally belong to, because that requires true solidarity and community, things they don't understand;
May 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
important context for the Target Pride merch conversation:

the products that removed were made BY SMALL INDIE QUEER & TRANS CREATORS

this wasn’t just the Target design team slapping a rainbow on some stuff. they went looking for LGBTQ artists and then abandoned them Image Ash and Chess did an insta story of themselves squeeing with excitement over seeing their designs in a Target aisle, like this was a huge career opportunity for a trans artist

genuinely so devastating
May 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i am old enough to remember when property damage to a business was THE WORST CRIME A HUMAN BEING COULD POSSIBLY COMMIT hmm hmm hmm what could be the difference maybe if we'd instituted a permanent no-fly list the first time someone put hands on a flight attendant for asking them to put their mask back on, some of these fuckers would have sit down and shut up
May 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
listen

we all know that there have always been weirdos bitching on the internet and on Fox News shows about Pride merch

but physical violence in the stores themselves feels …. new people are one hundred percent going show up and start shit at Pride marches
May 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
not to be a conspiracy theorist but i just got the red "your tweet didn't send but don't worry try again" error message eight times in a row until I deleted the word "gay" from the tweet feels homophobic idk
May 13, 2023 • 45 tweets • 9 min read
you guys really could have stopped after 100 instead of continuing to twist the knife, but I'M A WOMAN OF MY WORD, so here we go

this is the story of the most exasperated I have ever made my father the year was 2007

my sister and I - both in our late 20's - had just moved into a rental house, and were living together again for the first time since high school

now, it's important to preface this story with a brief history of my experience with the concept of "moving"
May 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
in the ongoing saga of Claire Attempts to Sell Her House, the purge of my possessions which I confidently informed the donation truck people would be "about half a truck load" was a full truck, with an additional weight fee, packing fee and hazmat fee and it took them six hours one thing i can absolutely guarantee is that if you ask me a question involving spatial sense, i will be confidently wrong every time
May 4, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
THIS

and then you vote for candidates who support a more robust social service net because when someone is having a breakdown in public it means they don't have access to the care they need or people to help keep them safe WHICH IS A SOCIETAL FAILURE AND NOT AN INDIVIDUAL CRIME "you do not have the right to murder someone for making you a little bit uncomfortable" is an absolutely wild thing for us to have to KEEP SAYING, relevant to so many things that happen in every corner of this nation
Mar 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
this is an incredibly powerful piece of writing from a trans Mormon about finding personal inspiration in Spock’s journey to reconcile the sometimes-conflicting halves of his identity

(why no as a lesbian Catholic I did not at all AGONIZINGLY RELATE TO THIS why do u ask) STAR TREK HAS ALWAYS BEEN QUEER AND IMPORTANT TO QUEER PEOPLE
Mar 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
DING DING DING

also they don’t want any cis gays/lesbians fighting to retain a word which umbrellas all the categories of queer they don’t like, from bisexuals to trans people to intersex to nonbinary to genderfluid, which means resistance from cis gays/lesbians is vital on this motherfuckers out here trying to make me uninvite my friends from my own party smh
Mar 25, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I have used my brain too much over the past week and it needs to be recharged with activities that do not tax it, so I am on the couch in my pajamas finishing the first season of “Vanderpump Rules” and my biggest takeaway so far is that Jax should be sent to the Hague IKEA coffee table: 1
Tom Sandoval: 0

it’s fun watching this already knowing we hate him
Mar 24, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
at some point after this season of "Picard" is over - provided it sticks the landing, as I fully expect it to do - I will have lengthy thoughts on what a perfect example it is of why the oft-denigrated concept of "fan service" is actually a beautiful gift and exchange of emotion at some point along the way - and I definitely blame "Game of Thrones" for, if not INVENTING, certainly AMPLIFYING this - it became trendy to act like forcing your audience to suffer because it was Good For Them inherently creates better art than allowing them to feel hope & joy
Mar 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
look, there are a million more important things wrong with this, and people who follow sports much more closely than I do have already said them much more eloquently, but just speaking personally as someone who is both gay and Christian - this Us vs. Them dichotomy is so gross treating things that are pro-queer like they are AUTOMATICALLY anti-Christian is why so many LGBTQ people flee the churches that raised them, because you've framed their entire identity as an attack against your own
Mar 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
not me crying at a display label in the middle of a heist, I’m too fragile for this show #StarTrekPicard #PicardSpoilers #Picard Beverly hugging [redacted] and [redacted] has broken me as a person I LOVE SPACE FRIENDSHIP
Mar 22, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
okay

*grits teeth*

here is the thing

no one is just WALKING UP TO YOU and calling you, Ana, "hey there, person who menstruates"

this language is vital WHEN WE DISCUSS MENSTRUATION so that EVERYONE IT AFFECTS IS INCLUDED

pretending this is just how we greet people now is wild i'm sorry i know i am EXPLICITLY AND KNOWINGLY violating like multiple of my Twitter Lent resolutions to not QT trash into your feed or yell at every bad take I see, but the idea that the word "women" has been eradicated from society in every single circumstance is so bizarre
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my British girlfriend absolutely short-circuiting at the concept of the Cupid Shuffle and the Electric Slide is the single funniest thing I have ever witnessed at a wedding and I laugh every time I remember it I also forgot to warn her when she first came here for Thanksgiving that we say grace before we eat, so from her perspective it went from a casual mingling cocktail hour to what she described as "everyone standing in a circle, chanting in unison," which is hilarious and fair
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
can @westelm please tell me who exactly they think a three-person dining room bench with a total weight capacity of 300 pounds is for??? this fatphobic nonsense makes me crazy. so NO three average-sized adults can use this fucking bench??? Image right, but giving a legalese number and not an actual stress test one is part of my point and is WHY this is fatphobic. why do they think people look this up when they shop? I need to know the ACTUAL WEIGHT CAPACITY so I know if I can sit in a fucking chair before I pay for it
Feb 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I would die for every single child in every single episode of “Abbott Elementary” they are the Lord’s most precious angels and every one of them is funnier than 90% of most white male professional comedians
Feb 19, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
was not expecting to cry at Mass this morning until Father Dave used his entire homily to forcefully repudiate the archbishop’s new transphobic school policies and was met with an instantaneous standing ovation from every single person in the room Dad obviously could not have known this would happen when he picked the music a month ago, but HOO BOY singing “when violence seeks to destroy us, hold onto love/ when prejudice poses as freedom, hold onto love” immediately after that homily came like RIGHT FROM MY SOUL