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Took me a good 8 hours but I swear Chimera coming soon and maybe more troll hunters fanart when I’m feeling a bit better 😥 also I drew most of this without my glasses so some details and stuff are wonky also Marcille looks slightly sun burnt because I SUCK at pinkish skin tones
I've made no secret of the fact that I'm Australian so periodically parts of the American experience with Barbie slip me by altogether. So if I may take us on a journey of the representation of my home country through Barbie's years, I would love to demonstrate that Mattel sometimes has as little understanding of my country as I do of America.
First things first: my fave Blaine Gordon was officially stated in the Cali Girls line to be from Sydney, Australia. This would also, by extension, imply that his sister Summer is Australian.
In the initial run of Generation Girls, where Blaine debuted, he was from New York, but Barbie's friend Tori was from Sydney.
Technically I believe born in Sydney and then lived in Melbourne before finally attending the international boarding school with Barbie and co in New York.
But for less specific examples - Australia was represented twice in the Dolls of the World line, once in 1993 and then again in 2011. Both times, Barbie is depicted as a country girl wearing a big hat, but the second time she also has a koala.
I like the way the Dolls of the World line evolved over time to include more interesting looking boxes. I would caution though that you should not walk around letting a koala cling to your arm.
This design also evokes the OOAK Bindi Irwin Barbie that was released for the She-roes collection.
But not quite so dramatic as the other Australia-themed doll for the Dolls of the World collection - the Landmark Collection's Sydney Opera House Barbie.
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Of course, as Sydney hosted the Olympic Games in 2000, there are a number of dolls with Sydney 2000 branding. I would draw particular attention to Pin Collector Barbie from that year, as she has some design features in common with the two Dolls of the World depictions.
There's a number of Australian celebrities besides Bindi Irwin who have either OOAK dolls or collectors edition dolls but it would be completely remiss not to mention that Margot Robbie is Australian!!!!
So any movie tie-in doll is technically in the likeness of an Australian.
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“We can't save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change - and it has to start today.”
Greta Thunberg (born 2003) is a climate activist from Sweden. As a school girl with autism, standing at less than 5ft, she started the ‘School Strike for Climate’ protests. Over the past year, she has become a global superstar of the climate change movement, promoting #fridaysforfuture alongside millions of school children (and now adults) across the globe to demand politicians, governments, and corporations take action on climate change.On Friday, August 20th, 2018, Greta began to sit outside the Parliament building in Stockholm every day during school time with a sign that read “Skolstrejk för klimatet’ (School Strike for Climate) demanding the country reduce carbon emissions. She quickly gained media coverage and the support of students and activists all over the world, who joined her voice in their own school strikes, demanding adults and lawmakers to take climate crisis and the future of the planet seriously.
Please note that I am not myself Muslim so if I have accidentally used any incorrect terminology or stated something incorrect or misleading please correct me.
In 2017, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie to celebrate Olympic fencer, Ibtihaj Muhammad. Ibtihaj Muhammad is a bronze medalist and is known for being the first American Olympian to compete while wearing a headscarf. This was also the first Barbie to be depicted in a Hijab.
This was then followed in 2018 by the Black Label collectors edition Ibtihaj Muhammad Barbie.
As I am sure comes as no surprise, this generated some controversy. Some people were thrilled at the idea of a Barbie that represented a group who historically have not been represented in many dolls at all, least of all Barbie. Others found the idea of a Barbie in a Hijab to be a "bad influence" on young girls and representing oppression more than diversity.
One such article put forward the notion that Mattel would never have created a fundamentalist Christian or Hasidic Barbie, and though I have not researched every Barbie based on a real person I would be surprised if there was not a depiction of another woman equally as religious as Ibtihaj Muhammad.
In addition to being an Olympic fencer, Ibtihaj Muhammad launched a clothing company in 2014 with her siblings, Louella by Ibtihaj.