The pink trailer for Greta Gerwig's clever, campy meta-comedy "Barbie" was viewed 42 million times on its way to becoming the top grossing movie in the country, proving that the iconic doll is the hottest 64-year-old around. "Barbie was everything we didn't want to be... everything the feminist movement was trying to escape," Gloria Steinem said in the 2018 documentary …
For decades, Barbie has been a household name and central to the childhoods of many. “Mostly scenarios I saw from the novelas my parents would watch.” Above all, the Barbie doll made Romero believe that she, too, could live in a Barbie world. “They also inspired me to believe that one day I could own a beach house, drive around …
In early 2020, the only tailor Smriti Lamech could find near her cottage in Kodaikanal was a grocer who also had a sewing machine in one corner of his shop. Her first set includes Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla, American poet and activist Maya Angelou, Indian educationist and social reformer Savitribai Phule, and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Feminism for children Owing …
