Tagged: feminism

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Drawn in Drag: Examining Male Voice Actors Cast in Female Roles

This article first appeared October 3, 2014 in my Chick on the Draw column at Luna Station Quarterly. Sometimes animation is sort of like SNL in the early 90s–it assumes men dressed as women...

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The Bechdel Test Revisited: Women in a Hero’s Journey

This article first appeared as Luna Station Quarterly’s Chick on the Draw column, September 5, 2014 There are three reasons Alison Bechdel’s famous test–one canny gag in an indie comic strip from 1985–has been...

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Another Defense of Frozen: The Subversive Appeal of Disney’s New Breed of Fairy Tale

I dug Frozen. I laughed. I cried. I gasped at the third act reveal. In the wake of Dani Colman’s essay for Medium asserting the film has a problem with false feminism, I feel...

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