Oh good, an excuse to post a thread of my writings about the films of Hayao Miyazaki.
This piece is old, so it's little messy and not as developed as I'd like, but I think it gets at the really interesting relationship these movies have with the concept of labor as empowerment for women.
The films of Hayao Miyazaki are rightfully beloved for many reasons, one of which is their feminism. The protagonists of almost all of his movies are women or girls, who take center stage in his n…
