- 1. Covered In Wrinkles and Unapologetically Old, Baba Yaga Is The Bad-Ass Slavic Witch You Need To Know About
- (Feminism)
- ... who knows? She is truly the people’s witch. She belongs to everyone. If we dig even deeper, we discover that she is not simply a fairy-tale ogre, but a powerful wielder of magic—an ancient and respected ...
- Created on 07 April 2022
- 2. Want More Body Positive Kid's Books? Start Doing Better By Fat Characters, Says Children's Book Illustrat
- (Books)
- ... that kept me from being deserving of love. Would that be different if I had encountered as many fat princesses being wooed in fairytales as thin ones? How would my assumptions that I was lazier and less ...
- Created on 25 February 2022
- 3. Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
- (Arts)
- ... in “the iconography of fairyland.” Beginning with The Blue Fairy Book in 1889, Andrew Lang published 12 volumes of collected fairy tales, each title corresponding to a different color. The staged version ...
- Created on 16 December 2021
- 4. Feeling Spiritual? Get Self-Reflective With These 13 Tarot and Oracle Decks Designed By Women
- (Living)
- Whether you're new to tarot, or simply want to add to your deck collection, it's always great to tap into that divine feminine energy by using a deck created by women. We gathered together 13 of our ...
- Created on 15 October 2021
- 5. Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
- (Living)
- ... she turned to reading and writing as an outlet. Butler would often pass the time by visiting the Pasadena Central Library, where she read fairy tales, horse books, and eventually science fiction. Going ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 6. Sometimes you have to get lost to get found. Get lost in 'Iphigenia Murphy
- (Sponsored)
- “I blew out the candles. I wished. I wished so hard. I had learned my lesson from fairy tales, though, to never make your wish too specific. Like, if you wish for a lot of money, you might get a big ...
- Created on 07 May 2021
- 7. Book Besties Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow Reveal 6 Titles They’ve Shared Throughout Their Friendship
- (Books)
- ... Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Ann sent this to book to Aminatou because it was the perfect blend of horror, science fiction, and fairy tales, and she knew Aminatou would ...
- Created on 15 July 2020
- 8. These 3 Autobiographies Are All Everyone Is Talking About
- (Books)
- ... usually come back as painful shards rather than one cohesive whole. Inventively written, the style changes with each vignette—sometimes the memory is a fairytale, sometimes its erotica. These genre jumps ...
- Created on 06 April 2020
- 9. Happy #TransDayofVisibility 2020!
- (Feminism)
- ... It only took writing 4 books abt trans & nb characters to figure out I was kinda writing abt me. So hi. I’m A-M. Dashing trans lad. Fairy princess. Soft boy. Rainbow sparkle brujx. And a little more ...
- Created on 31 March 2020
- 10. "Game of Thrones" Is Over, Here Are 12 Books & Shows To Get Into No
- (Entertainment)
- ... his position by fair means or foul. He must cope with the Fairy Court refusing to grant Britain the magical resources it needs. And now the British. Government is avid to deploy this increasingly scare ...
- Created on 20 May 2019
- 11. Karen Russell's "Orange World And Other Stories" Is A Powerful Reflection Of Our Current Social Conflic
- (Books)
- ... fairy tales, a twist on stories that have been told over and over. But with Russell’s flawless craft, they take on a life of their own. The frame is the same: protagonists struggling with a moral dilemma, ...
- Created on 14 May 2019
- 12. “The Umbrella Academy”: When Adoption is The Unhappily Ever After
- (TV)
- ... in a three-piece suit, this Netflix TV series is one of mass market pop culture’s few realistic looks into what it means when adoption is not a fairy tale ending. Movies centering around the topic of ...
- Created on 10 May 2019
- 13. Week Of Women: May 10-16, 2019
- (Entertainment)
- ... Karen Russell rewrites fairy tales to fit our modern world—and the political discussions we’re currently having. Out May 14, and check BUST.com soon for our review. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips ...
- Created on 09 May 2019
- 14. "Gingerbread" Is A Deliciously Dark Tale of Family, Friendship, and Clas
- (Books)
- Gingerbread: A Novel By Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead Books) In her six novel, Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi finds inspiration in fairy tales, as she did with her 2014 novel, Boy, Snow, Bird, and her ...
- Created on 05 March 2019
- 15. Here's Why the Klobuchar-Salad-Comb Fiasco Is Sexis
- (Feminism)
- ... means a lot more than just covering women in the news. It means avoiding narrative structures based on sexist fairy tales. It means moving beyond constraining divisions, like the one between the feminine ...
- Created on 04 March 2019
- 16. How "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Subverts Gender Stereotype
- (TV)
- ... for love, in reality, she is searching for societal expectations of happiness in a myriad of forms. From rom-coms to fairy tales, women and girls are constantly told that true love is the answer to happiness—and ...
- Created on 14 February 2019
- 17. British Death Omens, From Magpies To Corpse Candles
- (Entertainment)
- ... eclining in her bed looking pale and lifeless a few days before her own passing. In Celtic folklore, there’s a legend of a fairy creature known as a "Changeling" who would steal children and replace ...
- Created on 26 November 2018
- 18. 6 Women Writers Of Color To Read This Halloween
- (Books)
- ... talking—with good reason—about Machado’s debut short story collection. A finalist for the National Book Award, it’s an ode and subversion of the fairy tale mythos. Invoking the scathing feminist commentary ...
- Created on 30 October 2018
- 19. Three Witch Trials You've Never Heard Of—But Should Learn Abou
- (General)
- ... just England that got a little…heated (sorry) over witches. Germany also got involved in the epidemic (after all, they are the home of fairy tales!), and my God, did the Germans go all in. The Fulda ...
- Created on 29 October 2018
- 20. 40 Years of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”
- (Music)
- ... she dances as if possessed through the woods in (you guessed it) a red dress. While the video now may seem somewhat jarring and comical, Bush manages to channel elements of European fairy tales like Hans ...
- Created on 12 September 2018
