![]() ![]() Gros said she sees literature as a work of art, one that can be interpreted by the reader. ![]() Queer folks can kind of see themselves in the story, even if it's not explicitly Queer in the text or the intention of the original author." ![]() "I look at classic literature that has been able to be interpreted through a Queer lens. "The adaptations I do are through a Queer lens," she said. She only adapts books that scholars have theorized have an LGBTQ+ subtext, which is often pretty obvious to her. Gros, who also identifies as Queer, retells these classic stories through a Queer theory lens. Anne of Green Gables came up immediately - it's a book that I love." My agent and I finished talking about potential other adaptations we could do. Jo: An Adaptation of "Little Women" out, which again, came from a love of that classic. "I read it over and over again when I was a kid. It is one of my absolute favorite books of all time," Gros said. Unlike the originals, they are also undeniably Queer. Kathleen Gros is the writer and artist behind Jo: An Adaptation of "Little Women" and, most recently, Anne: An Adaptation of "Anne of Green Gables." The books take the beloved characters and plotlines of some of Gros's childhood favorites and modernize them. ![]()
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