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Eating For Free

Barbie Girls in a Barbie World (feat. Rashida Renée)

Eating For Free

Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson

Society & Culture

4.8536 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

To get things started with a bang on our return from summer vacation, we brought on the most hotly discussed and begged for guest in E4F history: Joan's sister, the legendary fashion scholar and Barbie officianado, Rashida Renée! We talk Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, and Barbie!

Links:

  • 'Barbenheimer' Even Bigger Than Expected: 'Barbie' Soars to $162 Million, 'Oppenheimer' Jumps to $82 Million [Variety]
  • The Brain Behind 'Barbie': Inside the Brilliant Mind of Greta Gerwig [Rolling Stone]
  • How Barbie Came to Life [Time]
  • 'This Is Not About Selling Toys': Mattel Bosses on 'Barbie's' Long Development, Needing a Female Director and More [Variety]
  • 'This Is Not About Selling Toys': Mattel Bosses on 'Barbie's' Long Development, Needing a Female Director and More [Variety]
  • This Ken Is CEO: An Interview With Mattel's Ynon Kreiz [VF]
  • Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling on Barbie and Kenergy [NYT]
  • What's Inside Ken's Fur Coat, and More Secrets from Barbie's Costume Designer [VF]

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my gorgeous babes. I'm here in the studio before the episode with someone very special and near and dear to my heart. She's an actress. She's a media mogul. She's a model. She's an innovator icon entrepreneur. I will let her introduce herself.

0:15.8

Hi, everybody. I'm Tommy Dorfman and Joan, I love you.

0:21.4

I'm obsessed with you.

0:22.6

I'm honored and humble to be here.

0:26.2

And I don't want to take up too much people's time because what Joan has to say is so much more interesting than this.

0:31.2

But what I will say is, apart from being a filmmaker, actress, all the other things, I am also a co-founder of a new safe space, if you will, called Club Curran.

0:43.2

And we are launching a digital zine, which is going to be a safe, autonomous space for LGBTQ plus writers

0:50.2

to explore, write about, share their feelings, thoughts, their vibrancy, and all their

0:55.6

nuances, everything that is queer joy, creation, identity, and of course, sex.

1:03.1

Yes, lots of sex, which I write about in the first issue, actually. You do write a essay

1:07.7

about sex and Kylie Minogue. Yeah, so if you want to read about intimacy or culture, hello, Joan, all things, beauty, fashion, spirituality, and even some creative writing.

1:20.9

Yes, because trans and queer people also can write fiction.

1:25.0

Please subscribe.

1:26.4

You can go to clubcurring.com and join our cute little mailing list.

1:30.7

It's so exciting. And also for all of my gorgeous, gorgeous readers and listeners and people

1:36.6

who follow us on the internet, I'm the culture editor at Curran. So if you have any pitches for us

1:42.0

in the realms just described by Tommy,

1:44.4

please send them to Joni at clubcurin.com.

1:48.3

Or do we have just a general pitch?

1:51.3

We'll have a submission.

1:52.5

Yeah, when the site goes live next week,

1:54.3

we'll have a submission.

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