Louise Knights-McCudden

@louknightsmccudden.bsky.social

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Writer, politics & public policy analysis nerd, reproductive justice advocate 🌈 UK Head of External Relations & Advocacy at MSI Reproductive Choices but views my own. I also sometimes use the name Xander.

Image from the Simpsons with Marge at a table with Patti and Selma. The caption says there goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality
joe lycett with the caption you are reassured I am reassured
Michael Stipe in a white t shirt, a grey hat, and large green gold earrings.
Captions in the photo
Michael Stipe with curly hair, a pink top, and a pearl necklace
Michael Stipe with long hair, tied up, in a sleeveless vest that says 'butch', sitting on a backwards chair
Mike Mills, Peter Buck, Michael Stipe in sleeveless vest that says 'butch', Bill Berry in a sleeveless white vest, sunglasses, and tight black trousers
Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe in a baseball cap that says 'White House Stop AIDs', Peter Buck accepting an award.
Michael Stipe in a beard, green hat, and high heels, holding a vacuum and a dog on a leash.
Michael Stipe school book picture in 1977 with short curly hair and glasses
Book cover: beige background, title and author name in black capitals. A drawn hand squeezes a hot dog with mustard and ketchup.
Book cover. 'NO' in bold pink capitals. White background. A pale blue square beneath it with a pink heart lollipop and a wasp on it. White test inside the blue square reads "& Other Love Stories."
Two small plant pots, one black, one white and grey marble, with plants in. In one of them is a model of the horse from The Never Ending Story, sinking into the soil. In the other is Atreyu, holding a rope attached to the horse.
Vinyl record cover in a black frame. Bright-pastel colours, characters from The Marriage of Figaro, title in white bubble font at the top.
Book cover: They by Kay Dick. Black background, small orange people at the bottom. Printed author's name at the top, small in white text. Title in elongated purple capitals, stretched across the book.
Book cover: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Dark green background. Yellow and green laburnum plants, in looping circles. White/cream printed author name, book title in looping hand.
Book cover: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Woman in a high collar, little girl in white cap and dress. Standing under trees, in the distance, behind a fence.
Book cover: white background, pale green printed author title, black book title. Young man walking away from the camera, arma stretched out like an aeroplane, in a big shirt, walking along a muddy track through a field.
Book cover: The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson. Black background, white printed title, brown printed author's name at the bottom. Blue and brown feathers swirling as if in motion. Two review quotes in blue.
Book cover: Black background, white title and author name. White Victorian gloves in a pool of light.
Book cover: The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux. Sky blue background with tall dark trees. Author's name printed in red, book title printed in black.
Book cover: The First Bad Man by Miranda July. Black background, title and author in white printed capitals. Yellow strip across the front with a Times Literary Supplement review quote.
Book cover: Man or Mango by Lucy Ellmann. Orange background, blue body diving or falling, book title in yellow writing, author name in blue print.
Book cover: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Pale yellow background with green and brown fading up into hills/mountains.
Book cover: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Dark purple background, gold lettering, a clock in brown/gold striking midnight with Roman numerals.
Book cover: Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Pale yellow and blue cover, cut out shapes of a mandolin, a woman, a fish, a boat, a cross, a heart with a night through it, a grave with a cross, a goat.
Book cover: Ruby by Cynthia Bond. Beige/light brown background, red print capitals spelling out title and author. Sticker saying 'Oprah's Book Club 2.0'.
Book cover: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Black background, gold lettering, 'Rebecca' in curly lettering, deep red flowers.
Cover: Persuasion, Jane Austen. Orange-beige background, brown haired woman in a long white Regency-era dress, tangled up in black rope.
Cover: The Handmaid's Tale. Black background, cut out figure in a red dress, white hat with wings that covers the face.
Book cover: An old 19th century mill.
Jane Eyre cover. White woman with brown hair pulled back in a plait, wearing a dress with a Victorian lace style collar.
Two faceless adults in coats, two children, a boy and a girl, in 1950s clothes. The girl is holding the man's hand. Black and white.