Its funny how people talk about classism and working class rep in RTD1 but casually say they're happy Martha wasn't working class bc 'it would've been bad representation' in the same breath. Yh, there's a lot of damaging hood stereotypes out there but being working class whilst Black doesn't automatically make the character bad. We're not problematic just for existing. If anything, Martha being a working-class Black woman becoming a doctor would've been even more groundbreaking, especially bc the average Black Brit is working-class or below. Even Freema Agyeman herself grew up on a council estate. That could've been really inspirational. The idea that UK discrimination ignores race and only focuses on class is false especially if u look at how the Windrush were treated because they were working class AND Black/of colour (Tory party appealing to white working classes with anti-immigrant rhetoric, Sikh and Muslim workers making their own unions bc they were excluded, West Indians being denied rent etc.). RTD fans love to create a split where Rose's working class rep and Martha's Black rep exist in boxes that don't ever touch but they do. I've seen so many 'but Martha's middle class so I couldn't relate to her' which is funny bc apart from ignoring all the Black fans that couldn't relate to most characters in the show anyway, a lot of us still related to Rose. South and East London are have huge multiracial and multicultural working class communities. We deserve to be represented too. We exist. Working class isn't a synonym for white.

It just says a lot how much RTD and Rose are gassed for destigmatising working class characters but it would've been sooo bad if those characters were Black lol. 'Chav' and 'roadman' have become removed from their OG meanings and are now aesthetics and trends but the actual people living their lives are still living the stigma. You lot love 'chavs' as in cute y2k fits on a conventionally attractive white woman but lord forbid a hypothetical Black person that's unemployed, broke and speaking Black Brit Vernacular getting that doccy who screentime bc that's a bit too ghetto™ apparently. It also says u lot have limited imagination. Attack the Block and The Kitchen proved Black working-class characters can exist in sci-fi and if we're gonna go there... they're doing more for working-class rep rn than RTD1 almost 2 decades ago.

Martha could've walked around in a northface jacket with half a tub of eco styler on her head and she still would've been great idc!

the tenth doctor & martha jones/echolalia by amy woolward, from neck of the woods

martha jones: you kissed me.

the doctor: was just a genetic transfer.

martha jones: you could have kissed my hand! doctor! doctor!

the doctor:

the doctor staring at child elton like this makes me laugh everytime

considering tulip got tentoo and donna got number 14...this implies the tenth doctor's true pair therefore is mar-

thinking about them again i really don’t feel well

interview with freema agyeman & her mum, azar

what’s really scary about a lot of people who talk about doctor who on different socials is the way people are devolving straight back into plain and blatant racism. like it isn’t even sly remarks anymore these people are dead using slurs to refer to characters…

didn’t know rtd had batters like this

the amount of people who tell me i must hate martha for shipping her with ten...EYE don't see why my own thoughts about how he could become a better person and therefore a ship with martha could work is so problematic...unless it's because you want him to stay this way other he wouldn't....OH.

what it’s like to be a tenmartha minding your business:

russell t davies would rather bring back steven moffat than find one, ONE singular black writer for series 14/season one, for the first centered black doctor.

i cant stop thinking about RTD pairing up mickey and martha in the end of time. might actually be the straight up most racist moment in all nuwho up until its blown out of the water by the doctor Handing The Master Over To The Nazis seven seasons later

not gonna lie, your spines are made of gelatine. why would someone who’s never posted about martha OR mickey comment twice on two different posts about a ship they hate. where is your actual logic behind doing this. if i don’t like something i won’t interact with it…why is this such a hard concept for people to grasp?

i like tenmartha because martha deserves the world and she seems to like ten for a bit so whatever my pretty princess wants

do you think a 5'4 and 6'2 height difference is predatory?

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freema agyeman the woman that you are…

*loves a character everyone hates even more just out of spite*