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24 Aug

What Barbie’s high-pink, utopian aesthetic can teach us about

What Barbie’s high-pink, utopian aesthetic can teach us about
As Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is released, Liara Roux speaks to author Whitney Mallett in regards to the doll’s bubblegum-pop Dreamhouses, and what they'll teach us about girlhood, desire and contemporary society Barbie… this gorgeous plastic doll has been maligned in recent many years, pegged because the reason behind eating disorders, body dysmorphia and cosmetic surgery obsessions, not to say the poster child for American overconsumption. Nevertheless it’s easy to forget Barbie’s origin: she was the primary doll for ladies that modelled a latest type of womanhood. Barbie is a bachelorette and lives by herself in a glamorous home she pays for with a profession of her selecting. She has equally affluent girlfriends; she...
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12 Oct

High Schools Are Now Offering AP African American Studies.

High Schools Are Now Offering AP African American Studies.
Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images Every February, a Black person is heard somewhere saying “we actually only get one month, THE SHORTEST MONTH, to show Black history??” February was chosen for a reason by the founding father of Black history week, Carter G. Woodson. The late historian is perhaps pleased that some high schools across the country have officially begun to show AP African American Studies for the primary time…and it’s for a couple of month. The College Board, the organization behind America’s Advanced Placement (AP) courses, launched a pilot program for 60 high schools to show AP African American Studies. Amid right wingers using Black history as a political football to win over (i.e. scare) their voters into supporting...
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