Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

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This book is an attempt to re make patriarchal fairytales into feminist and female positive remasterings.

And perhaps needed to hear, in advance of publication, that many women don't take kindly to generic bashing of males. Tiek pieminētas tādas problēmas kā depresija, ēšanas traucējumi, pašvērtējuma problēmas, pašmīlestības svarīgums un sabiedrības nosodījums pret sievietēm, ar viedokli, nevēlēšanos radīt ģimeni, kā arī mēģinājumi lauzt nosodījumu, pret vīriešu emocijām, kas bija ļoti negaidīti un ārpus sieviešu emancipācijas vispārejai tēmai, kas valdīja šajā krājumā. What if I told you, that the prince charming was asked to 'man up' at every stage, be strong and unfaltering all of which led to repressed emotions with dangerous consequences ? I kind of lost any hope for enjoyment when the phrase “how to play with your brokenness like it is a fidget spinner” was used.

This powerful, empowering, fierce book, reimagines our favourite fairytales; often from the feminist perspective of the ‘villain.

It's too bad because many of the poems near the beginning of this compilation are solid, strong takes on known stories. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory. Gill needed an editor or publisher that spoke up about how any boy/man that picks up her book is likely to be put off by the end.

And now she knew how important it is for a woman to be beautiful, as it is the only currency she truly had in this world, she became even more bitter. The last few poems are very disturbing to me considering they are the most likely to be remembered (being last). Nikita Gill blends poetry and fairytale stories designed to empower and reimagine the tales we are told as children. I think maybe if I spread them out more and read one at a time it would have been a different experience than just reading the entire collection.

I'm disappointed that the overall point and end of Fierce Fairytales was clearly that we women need to take control of everything over our male peers.They replied solely on their superficial and surface level understanding and literary history of these characters, probably collated from Disney films or other mass-made reception material, and then wrote them into a painfully repetitive aggressive girl power, misandristic narrative because that’s what feminism is, right? Some of the pieces seemed to be written more meaningfully and executed slightly better than others, so they felt a little out of place. Complete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation. Es verdad que todos son muy breves, con una extensión de una página o dos, pero a pesar de ello, logran plasmar una historia completa, y muchísima emoción. Most of these poems read like they were ripped from a Tumblr post or Twitter thread on empowerment and self-love.