{"id":5185,"date":"2014-05-10T07:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2014-05-10T07:31:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T12:31:56","slug":"and-now-they-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/05\/10\/and-now-they-know\/","title":{"rendered":"And now they know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aoifeschatology.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/01\/elsa-and-trans-iconography-the-snow-queens-gloves-come-off\/\">Once you see it, it&#8217;s obvious you can read <cite>Frozen<\/cite>&#8216;s Elsa as a trans symbol<\/a>, as Aoife does here:\n<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/moSFlvxnbgk?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/moSFlvxnbgk?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nLet me first say that, as I propose to offer a trans reading of Elsa, I\u2019m not claiming there is any intrinsic connection between my analysis and the Disney creators. Far from it. I\u2019m also not implying the appeal of Elsa as a trans symbol is universal: my spouse, who is also trans, informed me that she hated Frozen decidedly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, when many of us reflect on the stressed, condensed condition of gender dysphoria, of being encased in a fraught awareness internally and a false presentation outwardly, Elsa suggests to our collective spirit of survival the joy of release. We always wanted to believe our lives would get better, that the empowerment of freedom comes from the beautiful truth of becoming. Yes, there are many costs associated with this act to \u201cturn away and slam the [closet] door\u201d, and Elsa must confront in the isolation of liberation. But the slow motion suicide of \u201cconceal, don\u2019t feel\u201d attests to what is truly frozen \u2014 the state of denial that rejects the possibility of living free.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you see it, it&#8217;s obvious you can read Frozen&#8216;s Elsa as a trans symbol, as Aoife does here: Let me first say that, as I propose to offer a trans reading of Elsa, I\u2019m not claiming there is any intrinsic connection between my analysis and the Disney creators. Far from it. I\u2019m also not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,294,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-lgbt","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}