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My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism

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'Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtue-signalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it' Piers Morgan'Required reading for anyone needing an antidote to the mass hysteria of humanity's latest religion' Entertainment FocusAfter the success of her debut A Guide to Social Justice, radical slam poet and intersectional feminist Titania McGrath has turned her talents to the realm of children's non-fiction. Aimed at activists from the age of six months to six years, Titania's book will help cultivate a new progressive generation. In a series of groundbreaking and poignant chapters, she will take you on a journey with some of the most inspiring individuals in history, such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Meghan Markle, Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton and Joseph Stalin. Praise for 'Beautiful classic satire' Ricky Gervais'The latest genius twist in Britain's long tradition of satirical spoof' Daily Express 'Titania McGrath mercilessly satirises the Left's online umbrage brigade, the permanently offended, those who have taken on the role of policing thoughts and words to the point of absurdity' The Herald 'Hilarious' Evening Standard 'Hilarious' Spectator 'Hilarious' The Times 'Utterly unfunny' Peter Hitchens

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2020

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Titania McGrath

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Titania Gethsemane McGrath is a radical intersectionalist committed to cyberfeminism and social justice activism. Her uniquely formidable and humble force as a slam poet and her powerful feminist identity work on Twitter has catapulted her into millennial stardom.

Primarily through non-binary, polyracial, and ecosexual perspectives, McGrath has dutifully educated working-class people on Islamofeminism, the cult of cis-masculinity, and the necessity of groupthink to vanquish capitalism.

She has published over two books, including Woke: A Guide to Social Justice (2019) and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (2020).


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January 3, 2022
A Christmas present. The author's bio is wonderful
Titania Gethsemane McGrath is a radical intersectionalist committed to cyberfeminism and social justice activism. Her uniquely formidable and humble force as a slam poet and her powerful feminist identity work on Twitter has catapulted her into millennial stardom.

Primarily through non-binary, polyracial, and ecosexual perspectives, McGrath has dutifully educated working-class people on Islamofeminism, the cult of cis-masculinity, and the necessity of groupthink to vanquish capitalism.
It is, of course, a work of fiction. The real author is Andrew Doyle.

I already read The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z. I hope this one is funnier! :-)
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Author 7 books7 followers
February 2, 2021
Titania McGrath is the worst kind of race-baiting gender-grifter. Anti-science, anti-Christian, anti-American. And now McGrath is marketing this revolutionary drivel to children? They should be ashamed of themselfs.
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306 reviews57 followers
March 21, 2021
A valiant effort to keep up with the insanity we call the reality these days.
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93 reviews4 followers
September 9, 2020
'I didn't ask to be an icon, but part of growing up is to accept the role that fate decrees' - Titania McGrath.

Titania, as humble as ever, just gets better and better.
Andrew Doyle has created a satirical masterpiece, and I personally would argue this latest book was better than Woke, Titania's first work of art.
I really hope that Doyle keeps on writing McGrath for the foreseeable future, perhaps a piece of travel writing or how to bring intersectional activism into the classroom.
This is a quick and hilarious read, and I can't rate it high enough.
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13 reviews1 follower
September 15, 2020
Chuckle-worthy but not up to Andrew Doyle's (excuse me, Titania's) usual high standards.
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1,237 reviews
July 12, 2021
Muy divertido. Te partes el culo aunque vayas de escéptico.
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September 6, 2023
Laughed out loud; this was hilarious and sad at the same time. Always a pleasure to see Poe's law in action; when the satire becomes indistinguishable from the extreme viewpoints satirized, highlighting the pervasive absurdity. A few excerpts and try not to laugh! I dare you!

"I know that there is wisdom in youth. As a baby, my first words were: ‘Seize the means of production."

"If the apocalypse does come, we need to ensure that it doesn’t disproportionately affect minority groups."

"Do not say the word ‘bisexual’ because that implies that there are only two sexes and is therefore transphobic. Instead of ‘LGBTQIA+’, therefore, you should say ‘LGXTQIA+’. And avoid patriarchal terminology such as ‘cum’, ‘jizz’ or ‘semen’; it’s much better to simply call it ‘hate syrup’."

"Campaign for gender equality in whatever way you can. For my nephew’s fifth birthday, I smashed up twenty per cent of his presents with a hammer to teach him how it feels to be a casualty of the gender pay gap. He was so grateful he actually wept."

"I have a dream that little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged not by the content of their character, but by the colour of their skin, in order to fulfil diversity quotas and deconstruct the inherent toxicity of whiteness. I have a dream that little black boys and little black girls and little black gender-nonconforming children will be able to work as one to dismantle oppressive institutionalised power structures and cis-dominant heteronormative discourses of privilege."
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December 30, 2020
A progressive caricature distills woke Twitter at its most idiotic into a book. Funny and frightening in equal measure.
103 reviews1 follower
May 29, 2021
At this point, satire is the way to go. There is no better way other than to simulate these people to show just how ridiculous they are. Titania (Andrew Doyle) goes to the furthest lengths to exaggerate the social activists, and still comes close to resembling actual people. That shows where we stand now. Any ideology that cannot withstand criticism/ dissent is a ideology I'd stay away from. Question a feminist, see how quickly you're labelled a misogynist/rape apologist. Question islamic teachings, see how quickly you're labelled an islamophobe. There seems to be no point anymore in engaging in civil discourse with these people anymore. I'd either ignore them completely or use their own ridiculous arguments against them like Titania does.

A comment I read recently: "Whenever I'm accused of mansplaining, I tell them I identify as a woman".
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31 reviews1 follower
January 30, 2022
Not intended for adults but I identified as a toddler when I read it.
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312 reviews81 followers
December 7, 2020
"Believe me, future generations will thank us if we successfully eliminate heterosexuality."

Deze zin, in een notendop, is MFLBoIA (deze afkorting vind ik bijna net zo verwarrend als LBTQH++0x). Andrew Doyle weet daarin een standupcomedyshow neer te zetten, alleen dan in 2 uur leestijd. Vaak, heel vaak, zijn de losse zinnen voer om oprecht hardop te lachen.

"Nevertheless, we are making progress. [...] the Co-op stoppend selling their traditional 'gingerbread man', an offensively patriarchal snack. Their new 'gingerbread person' not only debunks the myth of the gender binary, but is far less likely to rape the oother biscuits."

In zo'n 20 korte hoofdstukken behandelt hij de kopstukken van het linkse gedachtengoed, variërend van Greta Thunberg (over de hypocrisie van klimaatactivisme) tot Joseph Stalin (over de, laten we zeggen, problematische kanten van dwepen met communisme).

"Many of my friends who became mothers have told me that they could feel their unborn sons kicking from within. This proves that violence against women is instinctive in boys. If this happens to someone you know, you should report the foetus to the police for womb rage."

Veel van de besproken mensen ken ik absoluut niet, maar dat doet er ook niet toe. Die mensen zijn vooral een stok om mee te slaan op de onlogische activisme-kanten van onder meer feminisme, gender, politiek, klimaat en racisme.

En lachen mag ik hierom, als verantwoord links, eh, mens die kritisch is op zijn eigen bubbel. Want mijn hemel, wat kraamt links veel onzin uit. En dat is woord voor woord, het hele idioom, koren op het molentje van Doyle.

Nu heeft diezelfde Doyle het grote voordeel dat hij zelf ook links is. Da's altijd lastig, zo'n Zihni Özdil die je gedachtegoed van binnenuit opblaast, want écht haten kun je hem niet (da's namelijk zelfhaat, iets waar MFLBoIA trouwens van aantoont dat dat een van de grote hobby's binnen links is). Doyles punt is dat links zich niet met minderheden/racisme/identiteit/etc moet bezighouden, maar met kapitaal. Hij wil links niet opblazen, maar veranderen (goed, dit laatste wordt niet duidelijk uit dit boek, maar wel uit de interviews met de beste man). Vandaar zijn woede op zijn eigen nest.

Het lastige is alleen: het is wel héél veel koren op hetzelfde molentje. Want ja, ik weet dat, eh, mijn soort mensen onzin uitkraamt. Point taken. Maar tegelijkertijd denk ik ook dat dat soms nodig is om verandering te realiseren. De status quo behouden, de grote hobby van rechts ("Iedere verandering is een verslechtering, zelfs een verbetering" - J. C. Bloem), is namelijk veel makkelijker. Vroeger = beter, anders = slechter, punt. Ja, zo kan ik het ook. Dus op een goed moment in het boek denk ik: ho maar jongen, je gooit nu de veranderingsbaby weg met het activistenwater.

Ik denk dus niet dat dit boek erin slaagt om echt verandering binnen links denken door te voeren. Dit is preaching for the choir. En bovendien raakt zelf iemand als ik (iemand van dat koor voor wie dit boek gemaakt is, denk ik) na een persoon of vijf wel afgestompt. Het blijft ook daarna nog vaak hilarisch op zinsniveau, maar het grotere geheel der dingen ben ik dan allang kwijt, murwgeslagen als dat ik dan ben.

En rechts dan? Ja, die zullen hiervan smullen, in dezelfde categorie dat zij Jordan Peterson op handen dragen omdat iemand van 'hen' hun punt maakt. Maar ja. Welke winst valt er voor de grote ideologische revolutie binnen links te boeken bij GeenStijl-adepten?

Ik had dit leuker gevonden als artikel van, zeg, 3000 woorden, met daarin de grappigste zinnen achter elkaar, als een standup van 10, 15 minuten. Nu lijkt Doyle op een Narcissus die iets te hard geniet van zijn eigen grappen.
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648 reviews43 followers
June 2, 2023
This is a very well-written, brilliant satire. It's basically what you would expect from Titania - just more from the first book - so it might not be massively groundbreaking, but it will definitely do the job of entertaining you while you're reading it.

Favourite Quotations:

People often ask me to define 'woke'. I don't need to. I am the living definition of the word. But if you're interested to know more, you should tell your parents to buy a copy of my first book, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, which has a particularly strong chapter on how to defeat capitalism. It's available on Amazon.

In Melbourne, Australia, a vegan café took matters into its own hands and began charging an 18 per cent 'man tax' and offering priority seating to its female customers. For some reason, it lost money and had to close down. Only in an oppressive patriarchy like ours would charging men more for the same services turn out to be an unsuccessful business model.

Once upon a time there was a woman called Robin who became a prominent academic and developed a concept known as 'white fragility'. It was a brilliant theory that immediately explained the bizarre phenomenon of why some white people don't like being called racist if they've never said or done anything racist.

Then one day Meghan discovered she was pregnant. Everyone in the country was tremendously excited about the prospect of a mixed-race royal baby, but Prince Archie turned out to be disappointly pale. (I go darker than that after a weekend in Val d'Isère, for fuck's sake.)

For instance, if a white male author were to write about a black woman, a sensitivity reader would point out that he lacks the necessary lived experience to do so and would remove the character forthwith; a great victory for inclusivity.

Brie was lauded in the press as the first major female Hollywood action star. Feminists around the world breathed a sigh of relief that finally they had the powerful role model they had always craved. With the exception of Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, Pam Grier, Geena Davis, Michelle Yeoh, Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Kathleen Turner, and all the other women who had played leading roles in action movies, Brie Larson was literally the first woman ever to play a leading role in an action movie.

Once upon a time there was a man called Nelson who was put in prison for being black and then escaped and became king. Or something.
Nelson was born and raised in Africa, which is one of the poorest countries in the world. You can tell how poor it is because it is literally full of ethnic minorities. ...He was a humble villager (probably) who would have grown up with lots of other humble villagers who liked to go fishing in cute little boats and balance urns on their heads. ...To be honest, I don't know all that much about Nelson because I haven't done any research. But I know he spent a long time in prison, and that he narrated the hit movie March of the Penguins. And all this in spite of the fact that it's notoriously difficult for people of colour to break the glass ceiling and become fully fledged celebrities.

...you must join a student union so you can be part of the new vanguard protecting our society from deviant opinions. Universities exist to educate, not to challenge. They should deplatform anyone who believes in the principle of free speech. The last thing we need is a future generation who can think for themselves.


Are the Titania McGrath books childish, immature, and exaggerated? Of course. Are they also hilarious and sometimes just the guilty pleasure you need? Yes.
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289 reviews81 followers
July 11, 2025
My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism is the radical bedtime story we never knew we needed—but now can’t live without. Finally, a book that answers the age-old question: “When will my toddler start deconstructing oppressive power structures?” The answer is now. Right now. With adorable illustrations and deceptively simple language, this tiny tome delivers a crash course in justice that even your goldfish could understand (and probably needs to).

It’s basically Goodnight Moon meets Angela Davis, and frankly, it’s about time. Gone are the days of teaching ABCs without also addressing systemic inequality—because why settle for “A is for Apple” when it could be “A is for Ableism (and how to dismantle it)”? The book manages to distill complex, intersectional theory into digestible bites that will leave your little one woke and ready to smash the patriarchy before naptime.

It’s witty, it’s bold, and it terrifies exactly the right people. Whether you’re raising the next Audre Lorde or just trying to make playtime a little more progressive, this book is your go-to. Buy one for your kid, one for your racist uncle, and one for that bookshelf where you keep things that scream “I read things that matter.”
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October 2, 2020
Hilarious. I nearly fell off my chair during the chapter about Rachel McKinnon. You can tell how carefully the (left-wing) writer has been paying attention to the wilder reaches of Twitter, where racism, sexism, homophobia, bullying and authoritarianism thrive in what are supposed to be progressive communities. Many of Titania's most outlandishly offensive statements are things I've seen people say for real, and receive thousands of likes for doing so. Satire often involves exaggeration; here it's more a concatenation. Alice Marshall's reading is perfect. I'd love a sitcom about the character. She's like a modern-day version of Nathan Barley or Rik from the Young Ones.
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783 reviews147 followers
August 19, 2023
Hilarious and brilliant satire.

One of my favorite quotes, referring to Saint Greta of Thunberg:

“She had supernatural powers, and was able to levitate from country to country without the need for conventional transportation powered by scarce fossil fuels. She could speak the language of trees, and was able to heal damaged badgers using just her tongue.”

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January 7, 2022
Truly a laugh-out-loud book
If only it was not talking about the current tragic reality we find ourselves in.
Thanks to a brain-less academia and a 'its cool to be liberal' press led by hard left activists.
Its so good, I am going to read it again. Just to savour the humour. While trying not to think of the apocalypse towards which the so called activists are driving us.
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October 21, 2020
This book is supposedly a satire, but has no jokes and is not funny. Everything is written in that weird tone of condescension that some people mistake as humor, but really is just nothing.
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36 reviews1 follower
November 1, 2020
Had me in stitches, but not as often as her previous book.
4 reviews
November 6, 2020
A legacy of our time

I learnt SO much from this book! Titiana is not only a leader of our time but also an educator
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March 27, 2021
A very sharp satire (in case it wasn't already clear - definitely not a children's book!)
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319 reviews7 followers
June 30, 2021
Sometimes funny satire, but than repeating itself to the point of questionable
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