I’ve always thought of Barbie as a sort of totem for girls. This new one, computer engineer Barbie, just made me so happy for some reason:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372184/ns/business-retail/
She has a pink laptop and she wears glasses. That’s my kind of doll. She is still very blonde, but she makes up for it by having binary code on her t-shirt.
(PS, if you haven’t read Kinky, Denise Duhamel’s book of poems on Barbie, go and do it.)
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Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
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Thanks…
...to Sandy Knight...
...for designing the cover of Flare, Corona, from which this site is adapted
...and to my husband
for keeping the site running.
Karen J. Weyant
I hope this makes up for the “Math is hard” Barbie! 🙂
Martha Silano
Computer engineer Barbie: I absolutely love it!
Erin
I love David Trinidad’s poems about Barbie, too. Side by side they make for a fun contrast study, how gender informs our understanding of Barbie, and how a childhood icon becomes a collectible vs. a memory.