Cozy Fantasy and Queer Ecology in Kay O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Books
Kay O’Neill’s trilogy of tea dragon books, The Tea Dragon Society (2017), The Tea Dragon Festival (2019), and The Tea Dragon Tapestry (2020), demonstrate how the relatively new cozy fantasy trend is particularly well suited to the goals of queer ecofeminism and queer ecology, especially in children’s books. O’Neill takes advantage of how cozy fantasy queers the standard fantasy story in order to also queer the traditional cultural binaries that label disabled, queer, and BIPOC people as inherently “unnatural” and unfit for natural spaces.
Authors
- Emily Midkiff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0535-7343)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Extrapolation
- Published
- 2025-07-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2025.12
- Primary Topic
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00