Feminist Fables
Once upon a time,
John Smith talked about "savages",
and Pocahontas said, "bitch what?"
Once upon a time,
Sleeping Beauty woke from her sleep, looking at Prince Charming and said,
"White European features should not be the standard of beauty."
Once upon a time,
Jasmine looked at Jafar in her evil costume and said,
"This imagery of a brown woman in sexualized "ethnic" garb does nothing but satisfy the Western thirst for images of oppressed Eastern women."
Once upon a time,
Disney kind of got it right,
when they made Princess and the Frog.
This poem is about:
Our world