Brave Girls of Fairy Tales
For those new to my work, I thought I’d give you a brief introduction into what I do. My recent artwork has been focussed strongly on strong girls and women in fairy tales. Vasilisa They may be...
View ArticleWomen Illustrators from the Golden Age of Fairy Tales
Yesterday on Twitter, I shared a few of the Golden Age’s female illustrators and thought I’d go into a bit more depth here. There is a difference between the ‘Golden Age’ of fairy tales, and the one of...
View ArticleHow to Destroy a Fairy Tale
You’ve all heard the cry that Disney is destroying ‘true’ fairy tales, one by one. Probably also that contemporary re-writers of fairy tales are twisting them into corrupt and damaged things,...
View ArticleEarly Women Photographers: Part I (The Pioneers)
I shared a few early women photographers on Twitter a few days ago, and thought I’d go into a bit more depth here, as a follow on from my posts on Early Women Writers of Fairy Tales and Women...
View ArticleReclaim the Night: Castlemaine
On Saturday night, more that 300 women took the streets of our town to Reclaim the Night. We were sick of feeling unsafe walking the streets at night. We were tired of having to think up good ‘come...
View ArticleInto the Woods: the Symposium
Last Wednesday, I hopped on the train and made my way to Melbourne Uni for the ‘Into the Woods’ symposium run by History of Emotions. You can find their program here. It was a full and wonderful day,...
View ArticleBook Update
Things have been busy on the news front here, so I thought I’d put together a quick blog post to keep you (and me!) up to date on book happenings. VASILISA THE WISE AND OTHER TALES OF BRAVE YOUNG WOMEN...
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