Zendaya at New York’s 2024 Met Gala, which marked the opening of the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition.
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The Met Gala explored fashion’s complex relationship with nature and the passing of time.
Some fairy tales aren’t so innocent.
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A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
Wanda’s rage fuels her actions in ‘Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.’
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Visual references to mythological and popular culture figures of female anger abound in the latest Dr. Strange movie.
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The row over Sleeping Beauty is just the latest in a long history of controversy surrounding fairy tales for children.
The famous ‘kiss’ scene from Sleeping Beauty.
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Fairytales are increasingly being targeted for giving girls inappropriate messages. But these stories have always evolved with the times, and talk of banning them is misguided.