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Hi! I've been thinking about your issue with the indigenous dolls, and unfortunately I don't think there is a right answer. (An aside - Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and the Arctic dolls have these same issues) The problem is cultural appropriation and colonialism. NONE of these dolls should have been made, but they were. There's no changing that - no matter how horrifically bad most of them are. Since Mattel lumped them into broad categories, I would leave them as they are and just add a disclaimer, about offensive language and doll/clothing designs (Amazonia and Ancient Mexico are two of the worst).

You know what — that’s a good point. I was able to identify a lot of problems with the Arctic dolls, and I knew that many of the others felt uncomfortable, but I did not stop to consider the full extent of how much appropriation and flattening of different cultural groups within a country into one umbrella was occurring.

I could do better about providing disclaimers across all the dolls about how they may depict culturally appropriative designs and/or offensive depictions of other cultures, and making it clear that these depictions are representative of what Mattel did over the years even though this was not appropriate and I’m not sure even if Mattel would stand by it in 2024.

Thank you for sending this, I do really appreciate it.

(And apologies if I have said anything inappropriate in my response!)

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Thus far I have created polls to break down all the dolls in the Dolls of the World line that represent the same country or cultural group with, as far as I can tell (and it is very possible I've missed one), two exceptions.

These two exceptions being Native American and Pacific Islander.

I have just made a post talking about my problems with how to discuss the Native American dolls, so I'd like now to talk about the Pacific Islander dolls.

Polynesian Barbie was the first doll in the Dolls of the World line representing the Pacific Islands. Specifically, the back of her box says she is from the Polynesian Triangle, a region which includes Hawaii, Tahiti and New Zealand. Her box then goes on to talk about Hawaiian culture before signing off with a Tahitian goodbye.

She was followed by Princess of the Pacific Islands, who is described on the box as being from the "tropical paradise of Hawaii".

And then finally by Hawaii, USA Barbie, who is of course from Hawaii.

As a result, I am not sure whether it would be appropriate to combine these three dolls as "Hawaii" or as "Pacific Islands", whether "Hawaii" and "Princess of the Pacific Islands" are the same but "Polynesian" is not, or whether all three are separate.

I am genuinely at a loss.

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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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John William Waterhouse. 1896. Hylas and the Nymphs details.

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Barbie Bazaar | October 1998

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So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.

I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).

And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:

“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”

And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them

“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”

I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before

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so I’m looking at short story publishers (fantasy)

Tor, cream of the crop. 25 cents a word. Stories can be read for free (YES). Slowish response time at ~3 months. Prefer under 12k, absolute maximum is 17.5k. Don’t bother if it’s not highly professional quality. SFWA qualifying.

Crossed Genres. 6 cents a word. Different theme each month (this month’s is “failure”). Submissions must combine either sci-fi or fantasy with the theme. Response time 1 month. 1k-6k, no exceptions. SFWA qualifying.

Long Hidden, anthology from CG. 6 cents a word. 2k-8k, no exceptions. Must take place before 1935. Protagonist(s) must be under 18 and marginalized in their time and place. Must be sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Deadline 30 April. Response by 1 October.

Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Sci-fi only right now, author must identify as queer (gay, lesbian, bi, ace, pan, trans, genderfluid, etc, just not cishet). 7.5k max. Deadline 15 February. Responses by 1 March. You can submit one flash fiction and one short story at the same time. (My network blocks the Lightspeed site for some reason, so I can’t get all the submission details. >_>) Probably SFWA qualifying?

Women in Practical Armor. 6 cents a word. 2k-5k. Must be about 1) a female warrior who 2) is already empowered and 3) wears sensible armour. Deadline 1 April. Response within three months.

Fiction Vortex. $10 per story, with $20 and $30 for editor’s and readers’ choice stories (hoping to improve). Speculative fiction only. Imaginative but non-florid stories. 7.5k maximum, preference for 5k and under. (I kind of want to support them on general principle.)

Urban Fantasy Magazine. 6 cents a word. 8k max, under 4k preferred. Must be urban fantasy (aka, the modern world, doesn’t need to be a literal city). 

Nightmare. 6 cents a word. 1.5-7.5k, preference for under 5k. Horror and dark fantasy. Response time up to two weeks. SFWA and HWA qualifying.

Apex Magazine. 6 cents a word. 7.5k max, no exceptions. Dark sci-fi/fantasy/horror. SFWA qualifying.

Asimov’s Science Fiction. 8-10 cents a word. 20k max, 1k minimum. Sci-fi; borderline fantasy is ok, but not S&S. Prefer character focused. Response time 5 weeks; query at 3 months. SFWA qualifying, ofc.

Buzzy Mag. 10 cents a word. 10k max. Should be acceptable for anyone 15+. Response time 6-8 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Strange Horizons. 8 cents a word. Speculative fiction. 10k max, prefers under 5k. Response time 40 days. Particularly interested in diverse perspectives, nuanced approahces to political issues, and hypertexts. SFWA qualifying. 

Fantasy and Science Fiction. 7-12 cents a word. Speculative fiction, preference for character focus, would like more science-fiction or humour. 25k maximum. Prefers Courier. Response time 15 days.

Scigentasy. 3 cents a word. .5-5k. Science-fiction and fantasy, progressive/feminist emphasis. Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. 15 cents a word. 3k maximum. Any sci-fi/fantasy, they like a literary bent. (psst, steinbecks!) They also like to see both traditional and experimental approaches. Response time two weeks. 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 6 cents a word. 10k maximum. Fantasy in secondary worlds only (it can be Earth, but drastically different—alternate history or whatever). Character focus, prefer styles that are lush yet clear, limited first or third person narration. Response time usually 2-4 weeks, can be 5-7 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Clarkesworld. 10 cents a word up to 4000, 7 afterwards. 1-8k, preferred is 4k. Science-fiction and fantasy. Needs to be well-written and convenient to read on-screen. Appreciates rigour. No talking cats. Response time 2 days. SFWA qualifying.

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. 6 cents a word. Any length. Science-fiction and fantasy (along with fantastic horror). Good world-building and characterization. Clear straightforward prose. Response time three months. Yes, OSC is editor-in-chief. SFWA qualifying.

Interzone. Sub-pro rates if anything (but highly respected). 10k max. Short cover letter. Science-fiction and fantasy.

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F SHARP Yellowjackets, 1.02

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Costume appreciation

ELIZABETH TAYLOR in Elephant Walk (1954)

Costume design by Edith Head.

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taylor swift, a tall thin white blonde woman who ostensibly dates white men in public where you can all see it: spends at least five (5) albums screaming/crying/throwing up begging you to See Her For Who She Really Is

taylor swift, a woman in her thirties who ostensibly dates white male celebrities that, with one musty racist exception, are as publicly acceptable as it gets: still writes songs about the heart-stopping danger and joy in just touching the person you love in a world that doesn’t understand you

taylor swift, a woman who ostensibly dates in public and writes what she promotes as diaristic poems about her true feelings: actively encourages fans to keep digging beyond The Narrative to investigate her Secret Messages because still there is something Else that’s Very Important that she is Trying To Tell You

swifties and the general public: 🫶🏽 This Is The Straightest Woman In The World 🫶🏽