Once Upon a Time…
Every story begins somewhere.
The Feminist Folklorist began with a question: what happens when we stop treating the stories we inherit as simply stories and begin asking what they teach us about who we are allowed to be?
Soon, this space will be home to essays on folklore, feminism, belief, narrative, and the strange cultural work stories continue to do long after we think we have outgrown them.
There will be fairy tales here. Myths and monsters. Sacred stories and vernacular beliefs. Women who refuse to stay where the story put them. And, inevitably, more than a little trouble with happily ever after.
For now, consider this the opening line.
Once upon a time…