This week we’re taking a look at books dealing with characters with disabilities, both apparent and hidden. Oftentimes characters in movies with disabilities might be written in for a gag or a joke (the deaf person goes WHAT?), when in real life it’s not funny at all. Just as in young adult materials, it’s extremely hard to […]
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Femme QUILTBAG Movie Playlist
This week we’re looking at QUILTBAG books with a female-identifying focus, those that are lesbian, bisexual, female-identifying trans, asexual. To kick off the week, I’ve pulled together a list of films focused on QUILTBAG issues focused on those with female characters/issues. What I found was that the same thing which plagues middle grade and YA books […]
Fairy Tale Movie Playlist
Every year Hollywood comes out with a new fairy tale. Whether it’s animated or live action, there’s going to be one somewhere, but the new trend seems to be to twist them. Disney twisted the ending of Beauty and the Beast with the Beast being a cursed prince and the hero in the end, and […]