Kazi 88.7 Fm Book Review

This is the final of three episodes in the Diverse Voices Book Review Limited Podcast Series: Secret Lives of Fairy Tales.  Created and hosted by fairy-tale scholar and professor Kimberly J. Lau, the third episode features Kay Turner, a fairy tales scholar and editor of Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms. In the episode, Turner shares how she uses queer theory and the legacy of liberation movements to inform a reimagining of Grimm’s fairy tales, highlighting queerness, alternative relationships, and exploring how these tales offer new ways of being and thinking beyond traditional norms.Be sure to check out the wrap-up episode where Hopeton Hay interviews Kimberly J. Lau about the series.Kimberly J. Lau is a Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale.