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[email protected] “The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons by HEATHER WRIGHT A master’s thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The City University of New York 2018 © 2018 HEATHER WRIGHT All Rights Reserved ii “The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons by Heather Wright This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in satisfaction of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts. Date Jean Halley Thesis Advisor Date Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis Executive Officer THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT “The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons by Heather Wright Advisor: Jean Halley In Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud considers “the simplified reality of the cartoon,” establishing a definition and theory for the medium (30).