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This Princess wasn’t a cartoon and she didn’t converse with woodland creatures. (Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac)

by hynes1 | Jun 17, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016

I don’t mean to say that Disney princesses aren’t great and inspiring (except Aurora, what did you even do? Sleep? Great role model, Disney), but often their merits are accompanied by the picturesque fairy-tale. They are all heterosexual, most of them are...

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