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(Sort of) The Story
36. Don't get married (just take off your frog skin!)
On this episode, Janey is taking us to Finland to aggressively make fun of men who think they're entitled to wife-servants, and Max is going to ask us to "take off our heteronormative frog skins and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit." Hope you brought your dancing shoes!
Janey’s Sources - The Maid of the North
- “The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World” by Ethel Johnston Phelps
Max's Sources - The Frog's Skin
- "The Frog Princess," Georgian tale by Marjory Wardrop, from "Georgian Folk Tales," free text available
- "The Frog Princess," Russian tale, free text available
- Obituary for Harry Hay, official founder of the Radical Faerie movement
- "Radical Faeries Have Been Pushing Queer Boundaries for More Than 40 Years," article by Matt Baume for Hornet
- Twitter thread that inspired this story choice
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