#721 Gender, Sexuality, and the Fairy Tale - Smithsonian Pride Month: Cleto and Warman

Gender, Sexuality, and the Fairy Tale - Pride Month: Cleto and Warman

The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Art of Living Interview Series on radio and podcast.  I’m Paul Vogelzang and we are Celebrating Pride Month as part of our Smithsonian Associates interview series.  We have returning guests and show favorites Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman back with us.  I’ll reintroduce Sara and Brittany in just a moment.

But quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 720th episode when I spoke with  Dr. Jennifer Dill, a professor of urban studies and planning and director of the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University. We discussed with us all things eBikes. Two weeks ago, I spoke with Smithsonian Associate science writer Jennifer Ackerman author of the new book, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Bird .  Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience. If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com. You can Google Not Old Better and get everything you need about us!

What is the Power of Fairy Tales?  Fairy tales have a reputation for being conventional, and many of the most famous fairy tales appear, on the surface at least, to be just that. Tales like Cinderella and Snow White famously end with dazzlingly beautiful girls marrying princes, and others, like Jack and the Beanstalk, reward boys for their bravery and brashness with wealth and power. However, beginning as early as the 1970s, feminist fairy-tale scholars have pointed out tales and readings that complicate those conventions, and now researchers and writers are expanding on these beginnings to explore fairy tales’ queer possibilities.

Once "queer" used to mean strange or eccentric, later wielded as a slur against homosexuality and eventually reclaimed by activists and scholars, the word “queer” can simply mean different than expected. Folklorists Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman will be appearing at Smithsonian Associates coming up, and y

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