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Abstract
Actively queering popular culture texts, using critical literacy tools, is a useful classroom practice that enables agentic readers to see the possibilities for extending their own “queering” of popular culture. Queer readings of Disney animated films, for example, can help challenge the gender norms represented in these films. Through queer re-interpretations of The Lion King and Frozen, I demonstrate how it is possible to create queer meanings that interrupt heteronormativity and imagine worlds that are inclusive of diverse sexualities.
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The author would like to thank Associate Professor Karen Nairn for her support throughout the development of the paper.
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Jason Fan
Jason Fan is currently a PhD candidate at University of Otago College of Education. His research interests include postcolonialism, gender, culture and social justice. He has been a student at University of Otago since 2013, and recently completed Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Education Studies with a dissertation that engaged with his own journey of decolonisation in 2016. His PhD research project investigates the relations between Maori and non-white, non-indigenous groups in Aotearoa New Zealand.