Good to meet ... Marjorie Morgan

If I can't get through the papers in the week I always make time at the weekend, otherwise I feel out of touch. I started reading the Guardian a couple of years ago after randomly picking one up at a train station – I found it reflected the things I thought, but also challenged me. It still does – I don't always agree with what the Guardian says but it always makes me think. My favourite writers are Lucy Mangan, Tim Dowling and Oliver Burkeman: the Guardian Weekend supplement is my first port of call. I always find something of interest in the Family section, but while the Review usually holds my attention there are some weeks I can't bear the reviews as they are written in the sarcastic style of the Times – and that I can do without. Articles from Julie Bindel and Gary Younge have had me shaking my head with anger or nodding in agreement, and posting links to their articles on Facebook and Twitter. I am a researcher specialising in social geography. I have recently worked at Oxford University, and for an award-winning black history association in Northampton – where I live. I've done a lot of research into adoption which is fitting as I adopted a daughter four years ago. I always wanted to adopt a child – I'm a lesbian so I was never going to have a child with a man. It has been amazing and I can't even remember what it was like not being a mum. But it has also been difficult because of people's attitudes. I've had to do a lot of fighting in my life against racism and sexism, but that was nothing compared to the prejudice I've faced as a lesbian mother. My daughter is 12 and it sounds cliched, but she is my life. She's gorgeous and very musical and is already getting used to reading the Guardian – you have to start them young.