1: Meet Felicity, Meet Us

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In their very first episode, Mary and Allison talk about their origin story, attending American Girl Live! as thirty-somethings, and Valerie Tripp’s masterwork Meet Felicity. While exploring the world set out in the Felicity books (1770s colonial Virginia) they question the title character’s exclusive devotion to freeing a local horse named Penny. Last but not least, they address an important petition on American Girl dolls and representation. Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/american-girl-dolls-american-girl-will-not-make-a-doll-with-down-syndrome

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm
0:01.0	welcome to the American Girls Podcast.
0:02.0	My name is Allison.
0:04.0	And I'm welcome to the American Girls Podcast.
0:13.0	My name is Allison.
0:14.0	And I'm Mary and this is a show where we're going to be reliving the American Girl series
0:19.2	one book at a time.
0:20.8	I'm going to just lead with my age and say that I'm 32 years young and I grew up with the
0:27.0	first generation of American Girl dolls. I am as old as Pleasant Company.
0:31.0	R. I don't think that company actually exists anymore. as Pleasant, Company, or I.
0:32.5	I don't think that company actually exists anymore.
0:35.2	It doesn't.
0:36.0	So if you're a person for whom American Girl
0:38.8	has only ever been a Mattel product,
0:41.0	this might not be the podcast for you.
0:43.6	Right, we're talking to folks,
0:45.4	we're gonna use the word girls loosely
0:47.2	and not in the condescending way
0:48.6	that sometimes men you work with
0:50.3	we'll call you girls and then you wanna slap them. I mean it in like a fun. with we're
0:55.0	We'll call you girls and then you want to slap them. I mean it in like a fun we're aware that we're actually women but we're reclaiming the word girls.
0:58.0	We're talking about girls who are our age who grew up with the first generation of American girl dolls, I'm coming to you talking
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