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fandomhigh2018-01-29 11:29 am
intotheout) wrote in fandomhigh2018-01-29 11:29 am
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Library, Monday
Tip was hard at work today, after her mythology class on Anansi, looking up various tricksters from around the world. There were definitely some strong themes across cultures about what a trickster was for. Her favorites were the stuff where the tricksters ended up actually creating the world or bringing power to mankind or things like that. Her teacher had definitely been onto something with the whole "representing freedom and dignity" thing.
She could definitely do with more trickster women in mythology, though. She found a couple lists that threw in, say, Laverna from Rome or Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights, but most examples she found of female tricksters were thoroughly modern. Sure, Loki did enough shapeshifting and drag to be considered at the very least thoroughly genderqueer -- he'd even given birth a time or two -- but it wasn't the same when every single text she found referred to tricksters in general as "he".
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She could definitely do with more trickster women in mythology, though. She found a couple lists that threw in, say, Laverna from Rome or Scheherazade of the Arabian Nights, but most examples she found of female tricksters were thoroughly modern. Sure, Loki did enough shapeshifting and drag to be considered at the very least thoroughly genderqueer -- he'd even given birth a time or two -- but it wasn't the same when every single text she found referred to tricksters in general as "he".
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