If you read this blog regularly, you know how having a curly-haired daughter has changed my feelings about hair texture in this world. More specifically, I wish there were more celebration of natural ...

Recently Disney released a redesign of their most recent princess, Merida, from the film Brave, which sexualized her image and placed her more in line with the Disney princesses who came before her.

There are so many rules for a Disney princess. Too many for Disney’s newest princess, the Scottish heroine Merida in “Brave,” to remember. “A princess does not doodle,” her mother lectures in a light ...

With the independent, decidedly un-girly Merida, the studio is flipping the script on the traditional fairytale. By Jordan Zakarin Brave Merida with Arrow - H 2012 Where the film carves its own path, ...

In the face of a tsunami of criticism, Disney has abandoned its sexy makeover of Merida, the feisty heroine of its Oscar-winning animated feature “Brave,” on its official princess website. But the ...

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