It’s worth noting that my brother Jeremy was one of the biggest contributors to this list, often dumping a dozen Wikipedia entries in my lap at a time. I’d be googling for information on Mai Bhago and end up on pages with tons of information on other notable historical women. From there, it ballooned out mostly from further research on my friends’ recommendations. But when this all started, I got a started set of around 150 from Facebook - many of whom were jokey suggestions like Sarah Palin, and others pretty stellar ideas. Jason Porath: The first couple, I knew just from years of daily life. I remember a book called Uppity Women of the Ancient World that talked about a few, but I’m dying to know your sources. Legion of Leia: How do you find these women and their stories? I recognize a few names from research I’ve done, but not all of them. This is a rabbit hole I’ve tumbled down and have yet to see the bottom. Lastly, I’m a total information junkie, one of those people who gets lost in Wikipedia very easily. I am a huge lover of the obscure, rare, and weird – I’m also a feminist, so the two interests collide with this series.
In quick order, as suggestions flooded in, it grew from being a list of hysterically poor fits (like Lolita and Beloved) to being fascinating women from history and mythology. I hastily sketched a couple as jokes - Elizabeth Bathory, an early version of Lolita, and weirdly enough, Charybdis - but kept in my head that I wanted to do more full-fledged pieces when I got the time. There was an article going around about how the Frozen princesses weren’t good role models, and I asked, “well, we can SURELY do worse than them - who is the least likely candidate for an animated princess you can think of?” I asked it on my Facebook shortly thereafter, and got around 150 replies from my friends. Jason Porath: The origin of this came from a lunchtime conversation at my old workplace. Let’s begin by hearing how this all got started. I’m a huge history fan, especially of women we might not have heard of. Legion of Leia: Jason, I saw these online on Friday and they blew me away. Check out my interview with Jason below and head over to the site, like the Facebook page and follow him on Tumblr! He likes suggestions for new princesses, so let him know who you’d like to see!
They’re all absolutely fascinating! I was drawn in, like many of you, by the story of Pasiphaë, who, um, really really likes bulls. It’s the creation of Jason Porath who draws an amazing picture of a “princess” that Disney would be unlikely to do a movie about, along with a great story about her history. If you’ve been on the Internet in the past week, you’ve likely seen someone post a link to Rejected Princesses.
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