Ella Enchanted

it’s just an incredible song that I for sure sing my heart out to alone in my car. My second favorite song of theirs is Somebody To Love. I first heard this song from one of my parents, but it also appeared in a childhood movie I watched called Ella Enchanted. Basically, it’s about a girl who is spelled to always do what she’s told. You could tell her to jump up and down and she’d have to do it. She goes on an adventure to find her fairy godmother that put the spell on her so that she can take…

Brave enough to see it: Perrault, Andersen, Disney and the Stigma of Inevitable Heteronormativity in Fairy Tales ‘Fairy tale’ is a genre of storytelling that is deeply ingrained into our persons and cultures. In this essay I will expose the idea that heteronormative ‘happy endings’ are their inevitable conclusion. My main points of reference will be Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, both Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney’s versions of The Little Mermaid, as well as Disney’s more…