Goody Jamil and a Study in Scarlet Letters

“What would Nathaniel Hawthorne write?”

Robert Walter Weir, Embarkation of the Pilgrims, 1857.

I had been drafting Mad Libs based on Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and the blurred lines between the avocado and the human species, but I had to pause. Something far more pressing and surprisingly delicious happened, like a ray of the stupidest light. Indeed, Jameela Jamil “misgendered” a singular …