The imperatives of literary fashion aren’t nearly as oppressive as they used to be, so in order to understand what it was like to be Angela Carter, writing in the 1970s and ’80s, we’ll have to use our ...

As much as I love fairy tales, I'll be the first to admit that they're often hella misogynistic in the treatment of their female characters, sometimes even violently so. There's one little-known fairy ...

Sleeping Beauty becomes an allegory about consent, Peter Pan is recast as a “creepy” Peeping Tom, and Ariel must weigh whether the “vagina-a-bob” that comes attached to her new legs is worth losing ...

Emilie Blichfeldt's take on Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister, just landed on Hulu, and it is truly a sight to behold. While I ...

Many students come to Iowa State University looking at college as a simple walk-in, walk-out ordeal, entirely missing out on ...

Young women often say they want to find a knight in shining armor and be "a princess" on their wedding day. From an early age, many girls are indoctrinated with the idea that lasting romance and ...

Fairies, mermaids, adventures, and women killing it in graphic novels? Sign us all up. All four of these things (and loads more, too) are in Mairghread Scott and Robin Robinson's upcoming YA graphic ...