Tag: disney

Quickies: LGBTQ School-to-Prison Pipeline, “Once Upon a Time” Gets Gay, London’s Female Drag Queens

By Jac

In Quickies

On September 21, 2015

“Helping Queer Youth Affected by the School-to-Prison Pipeline” – “In just over a decade, the school-to-prison pipeline has transformed from an unknown education issue into a national movement… Today, LGBT youth make up only 6 percent of the general population but represent 15 percent of people currently in juvenile detention.” Swyer Syndrome Makes Puberty Difficult […]

Art & Media

What I Learned From Disney Princesses

By Avery

On August 5, 2014

I realized something recently. Disney princesses are way more progressive than I think we give them credit for. We often note their unhealthy focus on a specific standard of beauty, and their unrealis

Art & Media , Family

Let It Go, Already – The Frozen Agenda

By Jude

On April 27, 2014

(Originally written last Wednesday.) This morning I was shuffling down the highway toward a science museum in the mom-van with the three kids in the back, watching Frozen. Like you do. Because it’s

Quickies 10/14/2013

By Yessenia

In Quickies

On October 14, 2013

How Disney undermines female heroines in 4 easy steps. Ohio’s new patient-harassing abortion restrictions may not have been passed legally. A new show on the CW, “Ze,” centers around a trans* character. Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai, the young feminist icon who was shot in the head by the Taliban and lived to give them the […]