Mazzocco reflects on her experience with her daughters (two Barbie fans, one not) when she talks about the diversity imperative at the brand. “I do all kinds of things for my kids that they don ...

As an older millennial, I remember playing with Barbie and Ken as a kid. Ken was an accessory, a gesture towards Barbie’s compulsory heterosexuality, and a stand-in for the man we were all ...

The makers of Barbie know ... is as much an emo fan letter to Jo March as it is a Masterpiece Theater-level period piece. You can feel her reconnecting with the kid who once spent afternoons ...

“Everyone should be playing with a Barbie doll with Down syndrome because kids and adults need to see the world in a different way. We are all diverse and the Barbie dolls that we play with ...

A fundamental part of being an emo kid is not letting any aspects of music be unknown. That’s why we memorize song lyrics in their entirety and play them backward just in case. But that doesn ...

Barbie's immodest beginnings, her presidential ambitions, her impossible proportions, and more. If not for a chance encounter in Europe, the Mattel corporation might still be selling picture ...

Years later, the SoundCloud rap of the late 2010s would experience a similar popular awakening — only now, the kids were using that ultimate emo tool to not only share music, but to make and ...

In 1959, the world was introduced to a doll named “Barbie,” which eventually became the most popular fashion doll ever produced. Now a new generation of kids gets to fall in love with a ...

So while Barbie may seem like just a toy, it's so much more for Yamaguchi. "When kids see themselves or see someone who inspires them, then it just opens up their world and their imagination to ...

It felt a little bit emo ... Kid LAROI, Tame Impala, HAIM and GAYLE. The 2023 film has been in the works since before ...

“Emo was one of the first genres of music that I discovered and really got into, so I’m always gonna identify with it in a weird way,” she says. “It was a very big part of my personality when I was a ...

In order to restore order, Barbie heads into the real world to find the person playing with her doll and making her have an existential crisis. Despite being inspired by a kids toy, the British ...