attackfish:

When I call Carrie Fisher a Jewish Princess, I am not simply calling her a princess who is Jewish.  It doesn’t mean what it would mean if I simply called her a princess.  This is not a title I give her to put her in some fairy tale idea of womanhood, to make her somehow safe.  Instead I am celebrating all of the parts of her that are not a part of the princess ideal.  I am giving her a title of honor and reclamation.

Jewish Princess, or Jewish American Princess (often abbreviated as JAP) is a term used to shame Jewish women,
for not fitting the White American Gentile view of what women should be, for being outspoken, for having needs of our own, for thinking too much of ourselves, or even for having mental illness.  Carrie Fisher, an unapologetic, mentally ill, woman who refused to be shamed, who was open about her struggles and the unpretty parts of herself, was a Jewish Princess.  What we are shamed for, she was, and she was glorious.

May her memory be a blessing.