Disney Gave Pocahontas a Love Song Because the Truth Was Bad for Branding

A deep editorial reckoning with Matoaka’s age, names, homeland, kidnapping, conversion, marriage, England display, death, Disney’s romance, the Filipino-model claim, and the colonial myth that branding made beautiful.

Disney, What Exactly Is Wrong With a Gentle Woman?

Modern fairy-tale remakes keep treating gentleness, romance, and care as weaknesses that must be replaced by combat or leadership. RaeRae asks why female strength has become another narrow costume.