To the Left, To The Left: A Feminist 'Princess & The Frog'?

To the Left
by Tanji Gilliam

“Every mother deserves a daughter.”
- Melissa Harris-Lacewell

I had already heard some of the criticisms, feminist and otherwise. “Why does the princess have to turn into a frog?,” “Why do the character’s sound like that?,” and my personal favorite, “Where is her magical kingdom?” If any little black girls deserve their own hometown princess, Post-Katrina New Orleans black girls do.

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