Who Was Barbie? | Online Only | n+1 | A. S. Hamrah, Ari M. Brostoff, Christine Smallwood, Lisa Borst, Cecilia Corrigan, Jon Dieringer, Jasmine Sanders, Arielle Isack, Mark Krotov

My mind was racing with questions like, Why is there a transfemme Barbie but no transmasc Ken? Did I just pay $17.50 to witness the spectacle of capital subsuming dissent? Have the filmmakers deliberately cast “Weird Barbie” with an actress who dated Bari Weiss and played “Hallelujah” on the piano while dressed as Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election in order to politically center “weirdness”? Why is there no mention of doll materials designer Jack Ryan and his past employment engineering missiles for Raytheon?

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