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Lesbian Mom T-shirts Do Not an Activist Make

A post from Double X writer Margaret Wheeler Johnson:

Behold, Marc Jacobs' latest foray into T-shirt activism. Jacobs has two new politically themed tees for sale, both bearing the statement: "I pay my taxes. I want my RIGHTS!" He's really going for provocateur status with one of them: The shirt features what we are supposed to assume is a lesbian couple with their very own toddler. It's the iconography of the holy family, and the American nuclear family, just without the XY phenotype ... (Read more in Double X.)