Turns out, I’m not the only black person who loves 'Downton Abbey':
I'm a big Downton Abbey fan. I arrived late to the franchise, long after the show had ended and they'd started offering tours of Highclere Castle, but before you could stay there on Airbnb. It was my little obsession, something I binge-watched at college, in between avoiding writing papers and snagging small stretches of sleep.
It isn't lost on me that my fondness for this time period is a dissociative sort of escapism. Had I lived through this now-glamorized moment, I would've been the subject of physical, emotional, and spiritual bondage—my opportunities limited, to say the least. This almost bolsters my commitment to the genre, a fleeting sort of self-care where I can lose myself in a space that pretends I don't exist. Because to be clear, Black people did exist.
Somewhere around Season 2, I got my partner into Downton Abbey, too. But, aside from us, I didn't know of any other Black people who watched the show —let alone Black lesbian women who enjoy binge-watching BBC shows and eating absurdly big tubs of Coldstone Creamery ice cream while doing it. if this is you, please DM me, we're always looking for new friends.
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