Esmeralda was Syed’s most requested Disney drawing, and Syed reimagined her as a refugee in France and a coryphée at a prestigious Parisian ballet company.

Esmeralda is wonderful, because she is neither. Esmeralda is one of Disney’s most blatantly sexual characters. She is beautiful and alluring, wears figure-hugging clothes, does not play games of false ...

Esmeralda Santiago may have left her native Puerto Rico at 13, but the island, given her memoirs and fiction, has yet to let her go. In her newest novel, “Las Madres,” three friends return to ...

Esmeralda, is that you? Instagram user bbyg6rl’s uncanny resemblance to Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame character is hard to ignore. The self-dubbed “Indian girl” shared a photo of ...

Esmeralda, is that you? Instagram user bbyg6rl’s uncanny resemblance to Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame character is hard to ignore. The self-dubbed “Indian girl” shared a photo of herself with a ...