Marie Hause, Heather Elliot Neill, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer explore the world of the cartoon television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Topics include children’s culture, subversive femininity, and bronies.
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Knowing
- Background on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Panelists’ impressions of the show in relation to feminism
Reading/Watching
- Discussion of individual episodes of MLP:FIM
- Season 1, episode 6 and the approach humility as a feminine virtue
- Season 1, episode 19 and the performance of femininity as a strategy of resistance
- Season 1, episode 26 and the transformation of the fairytale narrative
- Discussion of bronies and Angela Watercutter’s Wired article “Bronies Are Redefining Fandom—And American Manhood”
Passing On
- “William Wants a Doll” segment of the “Free to Be You and Me” Marlo Thomas project
- The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
- Patton Oswalt discusses MLP:FIM on Conan