This research project brings together fairy tales written in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and their post-1990 feminist retellings, approaching them through a queer theoretical lens. The four tales analysed are Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Beauty and the Beast, while the readings developed engage with fairy tale criticism, queer time, and queer kinship. The chapters, focusing on each fairy tale, explore the queering of time, the queering of kinship, the queering of motherhood, and the blurring of binaries. The ‘traditional’ versions of these tales, written by Charles Perrault, Mme Leprince de Beaumont, and the Grimm Brothers are commonly associated with chrononormativity. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to demonstrate their queer potential and encourage approaching them in a different light. In bringing together these traditional versions of the tales with Anglophone, post-1990 retellings written by Emma Donoghue, Francesca Lia Block, Deirdre Sullivan, Marina Warner, Nancy Kress, and Neil Gaiman, this research explores the effects of queer time and queer temporalities. Drawing on Elizabeth Freeman’s and Jack Halberstam’s approaches to queer time, the analysis focuses on how queer temporalities influence the narrative and the ending of each tale, as well as the ways common fairy tale tropes are rewritten. Apart from time, the comparative approach to the traditional fairy tales and their retellings explores kinship. The aim of this is to demonstrate the portrayal of traditional and queer kinship bonds in the fairy tales, as well as their potential. This project is structured around an ongoing dialogue between the different fairy tale versions and queer theory, proposing an original approach to reading and understanding these stories.