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    7 Empowering Songs from Disney

    Well, readers-mine, November was a complicated month, and I just watched the live-action Mulan. It got me thinking about Disney songs and the power of them. When I looked up lists empowering songs from Disney, many of them weren't actually about empowerment, but were fun to sing or were simply the song certain movies are known for. That's all well and good, but I thought we could do with a list of songs actually about empowerment from what I consider recent Disney movies and I wanted them to be songs that either students have talked to me about or I have played for my class. So, in no particular order,…

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    Disney, Original Stories, and Skin Tone… (Part 1)

    So, here’s the thing.  It bothers me that people scream “whitewashing” with Disney when it comes to skin colour.  People always point out “Disney makes the good guys pale and the bad guys dark.”  This statement has always bothered me because when I think back through them, I don’t see bad guys as dark.  If nothing else, I think of them as lighter-skinned/coloured.  So, I decided to create a series of posts using screencaps and giving a summary of the originals.   Are there other things in the stories that are “whitewashed” in order to appeal to upper and middle class American girls of European descent?  Sure.  Do the princesses…

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    Brave

    So, I’m looking forward to the latest Pixar movie Brave.  Now, I know people are upset that Disney isn’t doing their classic princess movies anymore, but I think this film looks awesome.  (And I’m not just saying that because Merida and I look alike when my hair is curly.)  Take a look.