Imagine getting dumped on your twenty-third birthday. Worse yet, imagine this dumping happening in front of your insufferably happy gay parents (who don’t even know how old you are) and everyone who has been invited to your party. Throw in the fact that you, as a child of immensely successful royals who can summon a labrys (a double-bitted axe) with ease, are failing at this very coming-of-age ritual because of how bad your anxiety is. This is the struggle of Saira (Shabana Azeez), the introverted mess of a human being at the core of Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s animated feature Lesbian Space Princess.

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