Tag Archives: dolls

Blast from the Past: Liberate Barbie and GI Joe

By Alexandra | Published: April 1, 2013
TweetHappy April Fools’ Day! This past year has brought us some great feminist pranks, including Pink Loves Consent and a neighborly protest of the always terrible Westboro Baptist Church. However, feminist humor certainly isn’t anything new. One of our Twitter followers (I see you, @SujathaBaliga) alerted us to a great feminist prank covered in the [...]
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Rethinking ‘Reborn’: Reactions to the shocking subculture of adult doll collecting

By Amy S. Choi | Published: February 20, 2013
TweetI’d never heard of the Reborn subculture before, which was detailed in a recent photoessay in the New York Times. Women who are part of this culture (movement? hobby?) — aficcionados are mostly white, conservative, Christian, and antiabortion women — make and collect eerily lifelike dolls. They purchase their dolls from “nurseries” and host baby [...]
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