Ever Feel Like the Toad Instead of the Witch?
August 14, 2023
“Ugh. Do you ever feel like you’re the toad instead of the witch?” Brittany said, poking at a clump of hair that had gone vertical. “I am the toad,” Sara’s…
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August 14, 2023
“Ugh. Do you ever feel like you’re the toad instead of the witch?” Brittany said, poking at a clump of hair that had gone vertical. “I am the toad,” Sara’s…
Read MoreJuly 25, 2023
Ok. This is Sara, reporting for Summer Reading Challenge duty. Here’s what I’ve got so far: I read a bunch of other books that didn’t fit or overlapped with other…
Read MoreJuly 18, 2023
“Ohhhhhh we’re halfway therrreeeeee!” We’re about halfway through the summer, and therefore halfway through our READING CHALLENGE, so we thought it was time for a status update from the two…
Read MoreJuly 3, 2023
So… we made a thing! A FAIRYLORE thing! A FAIRYLORE LIBRARY, to be more exact. We’d apologize about the rampant capitalization, but honestly that’s just how excited we are, and…
Read MoreJune 27, 2023
Last week, we gave a talk for the Smithsonian Associates on Queer Fairy Tales for Pride! YAY! As part of that talk, we put together a list of some of…
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We’re doing a talk for the Smithsonian Associates on Gender, Sexuality, and the Fairy Tale for Pride Month TOMORROW NIGHT (6/20)! We were so thrilled that they invited us to speak…
Read MoreJune 13, 2023
As many of you know, last week we went to the Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings conference at Brown University in Rhode Island……
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