Step through the wardrobe, taste the pomegranate seeds, jump in the fairy ring?
June 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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Our fabulous virtual assistant/ Carterhaugh fairy, Meenoo, told us last week that we should definitely be putting together a round-up of everything that we’re up each month. Meenoo is wise,…
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2023
That’s the $64,000 question. And if you’ve ever heard us talk, you know there’s basically a zero percent chance that we’re going to give you a “yes” or “no” answer….
Read MoreDecember 20, 2022
When we decided we wanted to do a whole Gothic Solstice event, we knew one thing for sure – we wanted to talk about Victorian Christmas ghost stories. We’d talked…
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The Gothic is an atmosphere. A shiver running down your spine, a stormy sky, a tattered but soft burgundy rug before a roaring hearth. Fairy-tale author Angela Carter once summed…
Read MoreJuly 26, 2022
If you missed our Folklore and Resistance roundtable on Sunday, we have fabulous news for you: you can watch the whole thing right here! We also made a gorgeous PDF…
Read MoreJuly 19, 2022
“[S]torytelling [is] a vital human strategy for sustaining a sense of agency in the face of disempowering circumstances. To reconstitute events in a story is no longer to live those…
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