Here, we see Gill challenging the stereotypical characterization of female fairytale characters using female characters from Game of Thrones. No matter whether you like her version of the fairytales or not, the fact is she has already turned to the new page of feminism just like her Instagram poetry indicates: I’m excited to read her new book because I’ve seen how Gill unfold the girl power by re-telling the stories.

Her published books includes Your Soul is a River(2016) and Wild Embers (2017). Nikita Gill is a British-Indian writer and poet living in the south of England. Nikita Gill’s Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul is a book about “Once upon a time” but in a different way. The book’s publisher, Hachette Books, said that Gill, “gives ‘Once Upon a Time’ a much-needed modern makeover.”Įmma Smith, the book’s editor, also commented on Gill’s effort of empowering the feminist thinking and bypassing negativee gender tropes found in fairytales.įairytale tropes are long overdue a 21st century feminist update, and Nikita has skillfully delivered nuanced characters, deconstructed damaging myths, and has gotten under the skin of toxic masculinity. This collection will not just be a thing of beauty, but will be a book to light up the minds of generations to come. But today, the stereotypes in fairytales are changing and author Nikita Gill is helping to reframe the narrative. Once upon a time, every boy was taught to be that prince and nearly every girl dreamed of becoming the princess.

Once upon a time, the story of a handsome and brave prince on his journey to save the beautiful but bewitched princess was strongly and vividly imprinted in our heads. Once upon a time, fairytales were good friends to everyone. Once upon a time, they accompanied us in our childhood and nourished us when we stepped into the adult world.

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