In Gill's fairy tales, everyone is their own fairy godmother: Sleeping Beauty is wide awake, and Cinderella's mother begs her daughter to stand up to her abusers. Tales she would want her future children to read.
She wanted to turn them on their heads, turn them into tales about people being brave on their own terms, honest about their trauma, and vulnerable just like the rest of us.
Gill didn’t want to just accept these narratives just because she used to love them. "We are teaching young people to respect themselves and take responsibility for their own choices and decisions." “This is not something I want to just read to my children as is. There is no idea of consent!” Gill tells Mashable. “Looking back I felt like, ‘What?’ This doesn’t seem right.
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