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The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
Jenna Anderson

In defense of Elphaba’s sex cardigan in ‘Wicked: For Good’

I love being in the Wicked: For Good era. It’s so fun not only seeing a movie of this kind crush it at the box office, but spark so many different kinds of conversation among its audience.

Amid the layers of reactions to those connections to The Wizard of Oz, and the emotions surrounding the movie’s titular musical number, there is one specific chain of discourse that I need to address: a particular item of clothing worn by Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo).

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