Then I remembered. Mermaid? Been there, done that—sort of. My outfit wasn’t as snazzy as Pixy’s though. And I wasn’t lounging on the sandy shores of a tranquil sea, I was plunging into an icy pond at ...
That the Poet is a queer character, a nod to Andersen’s real-life unrequited affection for Edvard Collin, and that The Little Mermaid can and has been read as a queer allegory for years, only deepens ...