She Wields a Sonic Screwdriver and Global Paradoxes: How Jodie Whittaker Became the World’s Most Unlikely Diplomat
When the BBC announced in July 2017 that Jodie Whittaker would be the thirteenth Doctor, the collective gasp could be heard from Cardiff to Kuala Lumpur. Suddenly a franchise older than most African constitutions had decided that a two-hearted alien who routinely cheats death could, in fact, be a woman. International Twitter did what it…