I’m liking both the look and the affordability of the Groovy Girls dolls.
Check out, for example, Dela:
She has a really cute face:
And here’s Latasha:
Connor is advertised as a boy, but I like that s/he has kind of a lesbian vibe:
And then there’s Lycia:
Check out all the Groovy Girls, and let me know which one is [...]
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Some might argue a kids’ movie packed with white characters is too easy a target in this multicultural age. I beg to differ.
My complaint about Toy Story 3 doesn’t stem just from a desire to see more diverse characters represented in a box office winner (and quality movie). Rather, my dissatisfaction has another dimension: merchandising. [...]
My husband is a comic book collector and increasingly our home is being taken over by action figures. But like most comic book characters, these action figures are white, white, and, um, white. I’d like my son to recognize diversity in superheroes, so I went looking for some African American and Black superheroes. [...]
I’m white. My nearly two-year-old son is white. My husband is white. So is just about everyone in my extended family. Why should I care about multicultural toys?
Because I’ve always been uncomfortable with homogeneity, and I want my son to feel the same way. Even as young children, [...]
Via Strollerderby: Check out these fabulous handmade ethnic dolls from Warm Biscuit:
Links: doll above, doll below. Each costs $65.
It can be difficult to find dolls with Down syndrome, so in the post I’ll point you to some places to purchase them, as well as some information on why Down syndrome dolls are important.
This post, and yesterday’s on dolls with disabilities, were inspired by Merlene Davis’s column There’s more to diversity than color, in [...]
Check out these accessories for dolls with disabilities. I especially like the tiny hearing aids and the guide dog. They’re available from Lakeshore Learning:
Lakeshore also offers this set of six differently abled figures, each about 5.5 inches tall, for $19.95:
Also from Lakeshore: Multicultural dolls dressed for school.
There’s been a lot of hubbub in the news lately–thanks to the movie based on the Bratz dolls–about the differences between Barbie and Bratz, and how the Bratz dolls are finally unsettling Barbie from her lofty perch in the toy world. (The Mirror reports that Bratz dolls are outselling Barbie 2 to 1.)
As article [...]
Clem Richardson of the New York Daily News shares the story of a program in Harlem that teaches kids to make their own multicultural dolls. About toymaker Kara Lesondak, Richardson writes,
[S]he taught the mostly African-American and Hispanic students to make and market dolls that looked like them.”Kara created a very unique doll-making program [...]
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