Essays on gender literacy, representation, and what gender-shuffling classic stories reveals.
The Reluctant Dragon: A Gender Literacy Review
Christel Trutmann · the afterword to our edition of Kenneth Grahame's story
A poetry-writing dragon, a bookish boy and a gentle knight, and only 7% of the story's gendered words for its female characters. Why shrillness is almost a character of its own, and what happens when St. George becomes St. Mary.
The Velveteen Rabbit: A Gender Literacy Review
Christel Trutmann · the afterword to our edition of Margery Williams's story
Eight of ten characters are male, and both female characters are caretakers. How a little gender-shuffling turns Nana into Baba, gives the model boat her technical vocabulary, and makes the loveliest fairy in the world a boy.
Coming soon: a series on gender in Disney, Pixar and Studio Ghibli films. Write to us with ideas or responses.