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How the Horse Girl Became Our Most Enduring (and Queerest) Archetype of Girlhood

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Kristen Patterson

Kristen holds a master's degree in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, but she also holds strong opinions on subjects in which she is not formally accredited. She reads. She is always trying to read more, MORE!

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horses

How the Horse Girl Became Our Most Enduring (and Queerest) Archetype of Girlhood

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Adam Driver stands on the ledge of an art deco building in a scene from Megalopolis
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architecture

The Future Is a City: Megalopolis and Why Architecture Matters to Sci-Fi

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Left: Yoda using the Force in a scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back; Right: Spock holding a punch card in a scene from Star Trek: The Original Series
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Let’s Start a Fight: Are Science Fiction and Fantasy the Same?

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Metropolis

Black Futuras: How Three Pop Divas Adapted the Image of Metropolis’ Maschinenmensch 

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Epic Fantasy

Wilson’s Iliad and Le Guin’s Battle Between Good and Evil, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sword

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margot robbie in barbie
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Barbie

I Said I’d Make a Woman: Barbie and the Pygmalion Paradigm

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The Locked Tomb

Are We the Baddies? Magic and Normativity in The Locked Tomb Series

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“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic.”

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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