The Quiet Genius of Call the Midwife
Cake, death and the romance of mutual aid.
8 min readMay 31, 2021
Another summer, another lockdown. Last night, we watched a small, rowdy right-wing rally against our city’s latest, necessary quarantine order lollop along under our window, all of them hollering their ambient refusal to be inconveninced so that their neighbors don’t die.