New parody from Andrew Doyle

Woke social justice parody Titania McGrath has written a spoof children's book, Chortle can reveal.

Purporting to be aimed at the under-6s, My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism will be published on May 7 and says it aims to ‘help cultivate a new woke generation’.

The book is the second penned by stand-up Andrew Doyle in character, following last year's Woke: A Guide To Social Justice.

According to the blurb from publishers Little Brown: ’Titania believes that childhood is a form of slavery, with adults indoctrinating their charges into outdated belief systems. Why, for instance, do teachers focus so relentlessly on mathematics and literacy when their pupils lack even the most basic understanding of poststructuralist queer theory?'

'Titania is able to empathise with the young because she too is oppressed. She is a woman in a patriarchal world. She is an ecosexual in a heteronormative culture. She is a vegan in an ocean of carnivorous aggressors. She is also hay-racial, which means that her ethnic identity tends to fluctuate depending on the pollen count.’

My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (preorder here) is influenced by liberal children’s bestsellers such as Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, C Is For Consent and The Little Girl Who Gave Zero Fucks.

Today, McGrath’s Twitter account – which has amassed almost 500,000 followers –  mockingly hailed the publication of another children's book out this summer, Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, saying: ‘Are you concerned that your baby doesn’t have a sufficient grounding in intersectionality, postmodernism and critical race theory? Then this is the book for you!’

And in January, the character joined an online argument with author Stephen King to tweet that: 'Until children’s books about intersectional feminists are as commercially viable as The Shining, we are living in a fascist state. #WhitePrivalage [sic]'

Comic Alice Marshall will reprise the role of the 'radical intersectional poet’ next month in a short tour of the 2019 Fringe show, Mxinfesto, which starts on April 11 at the Lowry Theatre in Salford.

And a television taster pilot of Woke was shot in December, directed by Horrible Histories' Dominic Brigstocke.

Doyle will embark on his own Resisting Wokeness tour with conservative journalist Douglas Murray from May and is in the early stages of writing a book about the culture war.

He is also writing the musical Bread Boy with musician Duke Special to open at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in August – a sequel to the pair's 2018 production Paperboy, which was adapted from Tony Macaulay's memoir about growing up in 1970s Belfast.

- by Jay Richardson

Published: 10 Mar 2020