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As we wrote earlier, Dora Dúró did not read the A fairy tale for everyone a children’s book, which he theatrically grounded, saying it “spreads homosexuality”, and the book is “an attack on Hungarian culture”. The result of the great storm was that the book immediately jumped to the sales charts and upset many. Let’s listen to Boldizsár Nagy, the editor of the volume in question.
If it weren’t our job, we would continue to condemn anyone, especially a member of Parliament, for smashing, destroying or burning a book. There is room for criticism and debate, but there is no incitement to hatred and fear, but there is no aggression. Dora Dúró herself admitted that she had just leafed through it, so she does not consider the book itself to be dangerous, but has a dislike for LGBTQ people.
We also receive disguised attacks on their professions, according to which we do not take into account the abilities, emotional and intellectual abilities of the target group, confusing them with these stories. The book was led by experienced educators who clearly stated which fairy tale was intended for which age group: there are some fairy tales for preschool-age children, several for high school students, and some for fourth graders or older.
They also shouldn’t hide from the fact that society is diverse, and perhaps they shouldn’t be made to feel less valuable if they differ in most different ways.
The Labrisz Lesbian Association approached me last fall with the question of whether I would be interested in joining a storybook project. The idea came from György Kövesi, an EJHA educator and administrator, as well as an activist at Labrisz: he has worked as an educator for years in the Labrisz Lesbian Association’s Warmth and Cognition program, which allows LGBTQ activists to go to schools ( typically high schools) upon request. They talk to students in class or at other times, answer their questions, discuss prejudices and stereotypes about warmth.
I thought it was a very good idea to create a collection of stories to address elementary school and preschool children who might perceive that they are different from their peers in some way and do not see this difference returning to their environment, in the stories they know.
It was also suggested that other groups that are marginalized in Hungary today be included in the book: people of different skin colors, cultures, religions, heroes with physical disabilities, the elderly, people living in extreme poverty and the homeless.
We also wanted to show life situations that are rarely found in popular and well-known children’s books, folk tales (divorce, death of parents, domestic violence). Many inclusive feminist stories have been included in the volume in which
Characters break out of traditional gender roles, boys can be more sensitive, they can bake, girls can fight, they can defeat giants or control an empire.
Folk tales are not alien to this type of representation of the sexes, there are many tales about heroic taltos, dragon slayer princes of the last centuries, but these have only just begun to become popular in recent years (last year, for example, First collection of feminist folk tales has already received several awards – Zalka Csenge Virág: Gooseberries at the end of the world, Blackberry).
Many attack us why we look for classic stories. Well, it is worth noting that folk tales do not have an original author, they have constantly changed, they have been rewritten for centuries, the brothers Grimm themselves, the most famous storytellers in the world, have rewritten, redesigned the tales that they have collected several times, refined a bit in each new edition to make them better aligned with the moral and religious views of the time.
Tales are often traces of current power and resistance to it, regardless of age and culture, and Fairy Tale belongs to everyone, whose 17 authors include renowned contemporary writers (Zoltán Csehy, Petra Finy ,dóra Gimesi, Edina Kertész , Ágnes Judit Kiss, Lakatos István Molnár Krisztina Rita, Ruff Orsolya Tompa Andrea) and new talents (Efi, Gangl Esther, Harka Sarah Horvath Noemi Rebekah Edit Pengo, Edit Szűcs, Judit Tóth B), also want to reflect current social phenomena, in the language of the story.
The book has 4 stories about LGBTQ anyway, and we feature a lot of positive heterosexual heroes, so this is not about “homosexual propaganda”, the book aims to show the diversity of the world so that every child is in them, not feel different or just a stranger.
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