Participants of my ongoing Saving Cinderella class have the option to a write guest post on the topic of the session they attended. This post is in response to Session 2: Damsel in Distress? Snow White, Puberty and Female Agency. To enroll in a future session of the class, click here. The following was written by … Continue reading GUEST POST: We Can’t Always Save Ourselves by Abby Petree →

Participants of my ongoing Saving Cinderella class have the option to a write guest post on the topic of the session they attended. This post is in response to Session 1: The Importance of Fairy Tales and Why Feminists Get Them So Wrong. To enroll in a future session of the class, click here. The … Continue reading GUEST POST: Coexistence is Futile: “Feminism” and “Family-ism” by C.S. Johnson →

Benedict Cumberbatch looks like a cross between an otter and a halibut. If you saw him walking down the street (and you didn’t know he was Benedict Cumberbatch) you probably wouldn’t look twice. And yet — and yet — he’s frequently included in lists of the “sexiest men alive.” His sex appeal has spawned a … Continue reading The Sherlock Effect, And What It Has To Do With Fairy Tales →

Participants of my ongoing Saving Cinderella class have the option to a write guest post on the topic of the session they attended. This post is in response to Session 2: Damsel in Distress? Snow White, Puberty and Female Agency. To enroll in a future session of the class, click here. The following was written by … Continue reading GUEST POST: The Princess Accepting Her Womanhood: Enchanted’s Take On The Snow White Parable by Eric M. Blake →

The following is a modern fairy tale, written by me and illustrated by Laurel Sprenger. Scroll down for a video version! Once upon a time there was a girl whose heart was broken. She kept it by her bedside in a carved wooden box because she no longer had any use for it inside her … Continue reading The Girl With The Broken Heart (A Modern Fairy Tale) →

Participants of my ongoing Saving Cinderella class have the option to a write guest post on the topic of the session they attended. This post is in response to Session 1: The Importance of Fairy Tales and Why Feminists Get Them So Wrong. To enroll in a future session of the class, click here. The … Continue reading GUEST POST: Missing the Forest for the Trees by Whitney Glaccum →

Participants of my ongoing Saving Cinderella class have the option to a write guest post on the topic of the session they attended. This post is in response to Session 1: The Importance of Fairy Tales and Why Feminists Get Them So Wrong. To enroll in a future session of the class, click here. The … Continue reading GUEST POST: Why A “Wicked Stepmother”? By Eric M. Blake →

The Little Mermaid turns 30 this year and, in celebration, the film is coming out of the Disney vault. Retrospectives abound, as do questions about whether or not this story, and its princess, hold up in the world of modern feminism. Everyone desperately wants it to — even modern feminists — because everyone (well, almost … Continue reading Don’t Excuse Disney Princesses As “Products of Their Time,” They’re Relevant Even Now →

Saving Cinderella: How To Take Princesses Back From The Feminists Streaming live on YouTube! ♥ Do you love Disney princesses but worry that they're anti-feminist? ♥ Do you hate it when people call princesses "damsels in distress" but don't know what to say to defend them? ♥ Do you love fairy tales, princesses, and Disney? Well, … Continue reading Saving Cinderella is now a class! →

I really didn’t want to watch Moana. After Brave completely corrupted the Disney princess narrative, and Frozen brutally murdered the trope of Prince Charming I had pretty much given up hope that I could even sit through another new Disney princess movie without banging my head repeatedly against the wall until it bled. But, when … Continue reading ‘Moana,’ The Hero’s Journey, And The Future Of The Disney Princess Narrative →