Seeing “Barbie” as an adult sent childhood memories of playing with Barbie as a child flooding back—some pleasant, others painful.
that adhered to my sense of utopia, and I wouldn’t let my mom play with me because she interfered with that fantasy.
My world was disrupted when I was 6 and my parents divorced. My mom and I moved to another city, leaving my brother and dad behind, and eventually I got a stepfather. I turned very inward; I was the only Black girl in my new neighborhood and one of just a sprinkle in my new school. I didn’t spend as much time with my dad anymore, and I found out he’d got rid of my Barbie Corvette when I went back to visit one weekend.
When Barbie ventures to the real world to discover why she’s malfunctioning, she sits on a bench near Venice Beach, just with her thoughts, trying to be in tune with the environment around her to gain the information she needs to find the little girl who she thinks needs to be saved. At that moment, she experiences deep emotion for the first time. Images of a distraught girl and mother bring Barbie to tears.
where she’ll put in work to make it more Barbie-like, equitable, and multifaceted—where women can be smart and beautiful without having to choose one persona over the other.Again, I burst into tears. The movie played a larger role for me beyond its satirical and political stances. It reminded girls and women like me that, regardless of the dreams we held onto when we were 5 years old. Instead, there will be changes, and you have to find a way to live in spite of them.
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