thinking about royalty & representation like
Today, I’m super digging this piece from BuzzFeed on The Women Who Modernized The Disney Princess, which is a great exercise in seeing how A) hiring for more gender diversity will ultimately help your company make a better product, B) the long, arduous shit you may still have to slog through to get there, and C) how the images and stories we create go on to define a new generation of girls and boys, and the people they grow up to be.
Nostalgic for the old hand-drawn animation days? Check out this badass catalogue of modern women illustrators to get your fill.
Correction from yesterday: The Michelle Obama thank you notes were from NYT Magazine, not New York mag. Fuck, that’s embarrassing!
Like Deez Links? Forward to a princess.