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Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma

  • Start date: 24th Feb 2025
  • End date: 25th Feb 2025
  • online
  • Organiser: disabledtales.com
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Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma

The aim of this symposium is to explore the nuances of disability representation in fairy tales, interrogating how writers, storytellers, publishers, teachers and academics use such tales to empower disabled people and preserve the disabled characters that have survived through generations. It shall also discuss the limitations of traditional fairy tales and the ways in which retellings and reinterpretations can challenge the negative or outdated tropes of the genre.

The event will take place online on February 24th and 25th 2025 and will feature a mixture of presentations and creative performances which explore traditional fairy tales or contemporary retellings that centre disability, whether that be sensory, physical, learning, or neurological.

Full programme coming soon…