SwanQueen: a retrospective in redemption, restorative justice & lesbian rivals-to-lovers

#swanqueen #onceuponatime #ouat

My season 4 recap is coming soon! Until then, my first video essay is about the possibility and implications of a lesbian relationship between Emma Swan and Regina Mills in ABC's Once Upon a Time! Let me know your thoughts, theories and arguments below!

Works Cited: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z...

Be sure to check out my other Once Upon a Time Videos here:    • everything that happened in once upon a ti...  

timestamps
0:00 introduction
2:11 what is swanqueen?
6:32 chapter 1: motherhood & redemption
15:31 a brief interlude: the lesbian gaze
18:01 back to chapter 1
23:01 chapter 2: violence & the intimacy of animosity
54:34 chapter 3: true love
58:16 conclusion: pushing back against fate

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Hi! My name is Ava and I am an aspiring booktuber :) Feel free to follow my journey and give me some views if you’d like. We’ll see where this takes us.

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