Barbie: Now I Am Become Irrepressible Thoughts of Death Barbie

Hi Barbies! We have sooooo much to talk about in this three-parter, so we squished some background discussion of fashion dolls and the cultural mythos of Barbie into this first episode. We also have some thoughts on the Barbenheimer phenomenon, the Barbie movie as a capitalist product, and our own experiences playing with Barbies as children. Then we give a brief overview of some other topics we want to dive into in our next two episodes and take a quiz to find out which Barbies we are (but, as happens quite often, the quiz was wrong).

This month we're talking about:

• Feminist Utopias, Matriarchies, and Inverted Patriarchies in Fiction
• Aging, Gender, and Sexuality as Explored in Barbie
• Weird Barbie and Queerness
• Parallels with the Works of Jane Austen, Because You Didn't Think Rhonda Was Just Going to Ignore that Depression Barbie's Comfort Show is the 1995 Pride and Prejudice Miniseries, Did You???
• and more

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