A Little Spark
July 23, 2024
Here’s a fact about me not a lot of people know – I really love tattoos. Before you go, “uh, ok, Brittany, why are you randomly talking about tattoos on…
Read MoreGigglegate
June 25, 2024
First, thank you for all the lovely, hilarious messages you sent in response to last week’s post on tech fails and perfectionism. There were so many, and you told us…
Read MoreAbandoning Perfectionism
June 18, 2024
Did you know that we’re (recovering? ish?) perfectionists? Honestly, we’re not sure anyone could get through (or even WANT to get through) graduate school if they don’t have at least…
Read MoreFREE Lecture on Unmarried Women in Fairy Tales!
November 21, 2023
We’ll cut to the chase. We have a brand new free talk up on YouTube right now, and you can watch it RIGHT HERE! Our super fabulous Patron, Stacy Shirk,…
Read MoreA Fairy-Tale Oracle? Um, YES!
September 26, 2023
A fairy-tale oracle to start your morning: Tatterhood – Tatterhood smashes every possible expectation for how a princess should behave, and consequently she saves her sister from kidnapping and wins…
Read MoreNorm and Transgression Fairy-Tale Conference Recap
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……
Read MoreThe Fairy-Tale Language
May 23, 2023
The older we get and the longer we spend reading, studying, and generally obsessing about fairy tales, the more we understand that fairy tales are a language for saying anything….
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