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Animated Change: Women and Genderqueer Animators
  • ISSN: 2042-7875
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7883

Abstract

This article analyses American animator Dana Terrace’s series (2020–23) through the concept of wildness, as mapped out by Jack Halberstam in (2020). The article moves beyond simply enumerating the genderqueer characters on the programme and instead explores how ‘wildness’ functions at both the thematic and aesthetic levels of as it presents wild queerness and wild magic as emancipatory subversions of restrictive social norms. The article places within the tradition of the coming-of-age narrative, exploring how its content both subverts and complies with the genre’s conventions. The project also investigates queer time in ’s narrative before analysing the programme’s depiction of wild magic as a liberatory practice.

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