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Counter Hegemony in Lesbian Space Princess – Animation as a queer epistemic tool?

by Sanny Schulte • December 4, 2025 • 0 Comments

Still from Lesbian Space Princess (2025). Courtesy of Salzgeber. In a distorted, fish-eye like setting from a low angle the protagonist, Princess Saira, turned to the camera, stands in the center of the frame in a deep cave, surrounded by glowing blue crystals and lilac rock layers and stalactites. Her skin is dark brown; she has long black hair with short bangs held by a small golden crownshaped hairclip on the side and wears a lavender oversized sweater reading “SEXY BITCH” in bold letters, paired with a short pink skirt and large pink platform boots. In her right hand she holds a large crystal in a light-blue to pink gradient. Desperately she looks at her left foot, that’s caught in a gooey pink slime that reaches its tentacles up towards her and takes over right foreground of the image. A purple tint is on the entire frame, affecting line-art and shadows, as well.

The animation film Lesbian Space Princess (2025, Hobbs & Varghese) is a radical counter-utopian experiment in animated worldbuilding. It utilizes animation’s capacity to re:imagine and re:configure without an indexical link[1] to construct a homonormative society while avoiding the trap of…

by Sanny Schulte • October 31, 2025 • 0 Comments

The book cover is mostly white with a black, scribbled spiral dominating the center of the cover. A red-haired drawn figure, wearing brown slippers, a light-purple dress, and a green coat, seems to be falling backwards into the spiral, a still from one of the case studies discussed in the book (My Depression by Elizabeth Swados, 2014). In the upper right corner, the author’s name, Slava Greenberg, is written in green. The title, Animated Film and Disability, is centered at the bottom and written in the same green. The subtitle, Cripping Spectatorship, appears below in orange.

GREENBERG, SLAVA. Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship. Indiana University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv3142v9x. Image description: The book cover is mostly white with a black, scribbled spiral dominating the center of the cover. A red-haired drawn figure, wearing brown slippers, a light-purple…

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Author Archive for Sanny Schulte

Counter Hegemony in Lesbian Space Princess – Animation as a queer epistemic tool?

by Sanny Schulte • December 4, 2025 • 0 Comments

Review: Animated Film and Disability: Cripping Spectatorship (2022)

by Sanny Schulte • October 31, 2025 • 0 Comments