‘The Crown’s Emma Corrin wears a surface textured Louis Vuitton tank dress on the cover of Vogue US August 2022. Alex Harrington chooses many pink to rouge-color fashions in a mix that includes Adidas Originals, a Comme des Garçons FW96 coat, Loewe, Marni, Miu Miu, Prada, The Row and more. Jamie Hawkesworth [IG] is behind the lens, capturing Corrin./ Hair by Jimmy Paul; makeup by Dick Page

Emma Spectre shares the interview Emma Corrin on Fluidity, Fun, and Dressing Up to Stand Out.

Spectre reminds readers that Diana has long been linked with LGBTQ+ identity in the public consciousness, supporting the gay-rights movement years before Ronald Reagan let the word AIDS, managed to make a public utterance. The openly bisexual actor Kristen Stewart added a “somewhat sapphically inclined Diana in Pablo Larraín’s 2021 film ‘Spencer’,” writes Spectre.

Emma Corrin herself came out in a quiet way after playing a young Diana in season four of Netflix’s ‘The Crown’, adding “she/they” pronouns to their Instagram bio. Now Corrin uses “they/them” — as do Demi Lovato, Kehlani, and Halsey.

“I feel much more seen when I’m referred to as ‘they,’ but my closest friends, they will call me ‘she,’ and I don’t mind, because I know they know me,” explains Corrin to Spectre.

LOL. Spectre is really digging this interview. Actually, it’s all about being queer now that I am scanning, so have a read. No need for AOC to repeat the words.

Honestly, I thought we had made more advancements in the past 50 years on LGBTQIA+, but apparently not.

I know we are all very rattled over the anti-trans legislation in red states, but then Roe got shot down, too. AOC’s activism is very focused on Christian fascism and white nationalism in this moment. The end of our imperfect democracy is in sight — if we don’t fight this back by the 2024 election.

People I respect say “It’s do or die time,” and they are not exaggerating.

AOC is not worried about “he, she, it, they, them . . . “ in this moment. We are focused on the American Taliban increasingly riding roughshod over all of us. No disrespect intended to pronouns.

Imagine Changing the Words in Martin Luther King’s Speeches

But then, I didn’t know that woman is a bad, bad word these days and that even the beloved Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s speeches are being rewritten in queer appropriate language, as if she never said the word “woman”.

Imagine doing that to a Martin Luther King speech — or changing the words that any person of color spoke that were of significance. Updating the person’s words so as not to offend people 20-50 years later — that’s reserved for women — as it has been historically reserved for women for 10,000 years.

I’ve never read that “two spirit people” tried to rip apart social systems. My understanding is they were most often revered as being highly special creatures, often with supernatural powers.

Silence, WOMAN!. Oh well. I’ll have to see if I can legally post a BBC series about the historical abuse of ALL women. Even Caucasian women had their teeth knocked out, so that they couldn’t speak audibly and articulately. The series is called ‘The Ascent of Women’. Forget all the great words about women. It’s European.

Update: I feel comfortable now saying that it is the ACLU — the American Civil Liberties Union — who changed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quote, substituting any reference to women. As I reference at the end of this commentary, it is also the ACLU who supposedly has taken the position that they will write women’s rights out of the discussion, comfortable that their main funders — older women and largely, older white women — will not stop supporting the organization — as I reference in my last note.

As a significant promoter of the ACLU, AOC must understand exactly the mindset of their current advocacy, where they stand on women’s rights, and the language on their website. ACLU Apologizes for Tweet That Altered Quote by Justice Ginsburg.

The Fight to Control Women’s Bodies

In this arena of controversy, there’s alignment between the arch conservatives on the Roberts Court and the desire among uber-progressives to dismantle the idea of women, breastfeeding— the entire package we’ve lived with forever. They hate each other, but ironically — controlling all women is their mutual prize.

From my little reading, this topic is particularly acute in America. I am admittedly broad-sided by the depth of these actions. Taking “women” or “woman” out of RGB’s speeches would leave her gasping. How the heck did our beloved Rachel Maddow never discuss this topic. I TRUST HER on ALL important topics that impact life in America.

Sorry for the digression. My fight is with Clarence Thomas and his Opus Dei crew because after learning that he goes to mass every morning before going to the court — to have the proper mindset about his spiritual calling when doing more mundane secular business — like dealing with all our rights.

Affirmative action will bite the dust in the next year. Caught between both sides of the issue, I’ve been a wreck all week. My apologies, but I am astonished over what I’m learning.

So off you go to read all about queer life and the best beaches in New York at Vogue’s August issue.

PS: I adore Emma Corrin, just to be clear. I’m just really preoccupied with Trumpers controlling our elections, a new SC court case for next year that could put elections in the hands of state legislatures and not state courts. It’s very scary out there in America.

For me, it got lots scarier this week — waving a big red flag in front of a mad-as-hell Republican bull. Now I understand why Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to define ‘woman’.

No, no — I thought it was pure anti-trans, Biblical usual hate. No, No, No. Blackburn was quoting RGB and she’s knows way more about “women” being purged from the Democratic party than I do. As the 19th conveys, this is going to be a mess.

And if Anne, who is as progressive as you can get, without being AOC’s sister — like I leave her at the 85-90th percentile — is confused as hell about what is going on, the Republicans are going to smash us on this issue. OMG the ads.

And I have to idea what to say. None. “Chest-feeding, no more breastfeeding”. Thank goddess Phyllis Schlafly is dead. The woman single-handedly took down the ERA. This would be a cakewalk for Schafly.

If I am blind-sided on the Democratic party’s elimination of “women” in laws and raging Twitter hate if one dares to open one’s mouth and ask what’s going on, goddess-forbid those Republican women in the suburbs and the rest of America understanding why Democrats pulled such a fast one on each other.

This will really be a fight. And I’m the one who has to speak with them — begging those suburban Republican women to back Democrats — not these two Emmas. I’m the one who has to explain the end of breast-feeding and hello “chest-feeding.” I need a drink, LOL. ~ Anne

Note: The only statistic I have found so far is that Australia does track transgender pregnancies and recorded 22 during the 2018-19 financial year out of 35,000 births in the country that year as having the potential for chest-feeding. The act is described as often very difficult and painful but also satisfying emotionally for trans men who have gone off hormones to become pregnant in the first place.

AOC is committed to understanding the scope of this issue, but in this one statistic from Australia, 0.00062857142 of trans men would be governing the abandonment of terms ‘breastfeeding’ or ‘woman’ or “mother” as if those women have no rights to our place in the discussion.

This is truly an argument for minority rule.

Note 2: Consulting the Human Rights Campaign website: 5 Things to Know to Make Your Feminism Trans-Inclusive, AOC has no issue with our understanding of the compatibility of ‘feminism’ and a ‘trans inclusive’ feminism.

In fact, the words expressed on HRC are exactly AOC’s understanding. HRC uses the words ‘woman’ and ‘women’ liberally on the website. Also, HRC does not state that a word salad needs to be used in every sentence. Rather, it seeks to expand the social and legal understanding of the word ‘woman’ and ‘women’ to include trans women. This is AOC’s practice, and we have no issue with it.

Many activists I am reading DO want the word salad instituted or just eliminate ‘woman’, ‘women’, ‘mother’ and any word they deem offensive. Meanwhile, Anne is fighting for LGBTQIA+ people to have all rights as parents. Kids can have two dads or two moms among gay couples like US Secy of Transportation Pete and Chasten Buttigeig.

So the drive to give up use of the word ‘woman’ is not coming from HRC. There is another very well-known organization who may be the driver of this change in American society and legal language, but it’s not the HRC.

Sadly, in reading about this organization [unnamed until AOC does further investigation}, it’s said that younger people do want to eliminate the word ‘woman’ and ‘women’ [really??? or just its loudest young, progressive voices??] and this leading progressive organization is confident that such a change will not result in a significant fundraising decline with older American women, who provide the majority of funding.

Women like myself may be angry and unhappy over avoiding use of the terms ‘woman’ or ‘women’ in the future but we are too dedicated to human rights generally to close out our credit cards for progressive causes. Fascinating.

Update 7/11/22: As I reference in an update closer to the initial statement, the ACLU is the organization who rewrote RGB’s famous quote about women’s rights and pregnancy. It is also the organization I am studying to understand exactly the ways in which it handles today the subject of women’s rights. They are attributed to have said that older women will be upset with these changes but we will not cut off the flow of cash. Good white women progressives accept insults from many directions, but we keep the cash flowing because we are so committed to change.

Michelle Goldberg and AOC are generally in alignment on most discussions around women’s rights: The A.C.L.U. Errs on R.B.G.