UUs at the Movies: Tropes, Trolls, and Fairy Tales in the Movies


Movies are fancy stories that tell us a lot about ourselves, our dreams, our fears, and our imagination. But they may tell us more about the world around us and especially the things we believe as a culture. Sometimes we let the movies sweep us up and we forget to be critical thinkers. Have you heard of the Bechdel test? Do you know about troubling tropes around race, gender, age, class, ableism and other oppressions? Can being a critical thinker still be fun?