Rachel Sandell is an experienced editor and proofreader with a love for language and storytelling. A graduate of the creative writing MFA program, The Rainier Writing Workshop, she is the author of ...

If you had the chance to change your fate, would you? For one Pixar princess named Merida, that is exactly what she sets out to do. Fans first met Merida in 2012, with the release of Pixar’s ...

Movie princesses usually wear puffy dresses, have perfect hair and wait around for Prince Charming to save them from an evil witch. And then there’s Merida. She’s wild. Her hair is a mess. And she has ...

Every summer, eager crowds and even-more-eager critics look forward to Pixar’s annual feature. Every year, audiences of all ages waltz into the theater with eyes aglow in anticipation, and by the end ...

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

“Bravely” by Maggie Stiefvater is an incredible sequel to the Disney movie “Brave.” In the book, Princess Merida of DunBroch has been back in the kingdom for some years since the adventure that we saw ...

I love Disney's line of "Dream Portraits" featuring movie stars reenacting classic Disney cartoons and the latest, above, featuring Jessica Chastain as Princess ...

When Pixar was given the opportunity to make a feature-length animation in the early '90s, they strived to distinguish themselves from Disney by not telling a fairytale. The studio has maintained this ...

Earlier this week public pressure managed to convince Disney to drop its make-over of Merida from the Pixar release Brave as she was being prepared for induction into the official 11 princesses in the ...

The newest princess from The Walt Disney Co. is more interested in shooting arrows and hunting bears than attending balls and finding Prince Charming. Merida, the spunky curly-haired Scottish heroine ...

Every Disney Princess has a special way of empowering girls and women — everyone, really — to dream of better futures for themselves and others around them. While there have been some problematic ...

No two Disney princesses are alike, but there are a few common threads throughout Disney’s award-winning animated films. For one thing, most of the princesses sing at some point in their story. Well, ...