Trish Cooke – Classic Book I’d Like To Rewrite

I wrote my version of Rapunzel — Zel: Let Out Your Hair: a child whose afro hair grows up and out, not at all like the version of Rapunzel I’d grown up on. I wrote my version of Rapunzel — Zel: Let Out Your Hair: a child whose afro hair grows up and out, not like the version I’d grown up on. In that, Rapunzel’s hair is long and straight and grows downwards and she is rescued by a prince — not a myth I would like to perpetuate.

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