Hello, hello, welcome to highbrow. I'm your host, Mina. And today we're gonna be talking about dolls. So this is the

extended version of my dolls video, which I published on Monday, last Monday. So I

initially wanted to talk about dolls because I came across this, well actually let me backtrack.

One, because there's been a lot of Barbie news lately.

And then on my Twitter timeline, there was discourse around the Met Gala where someone had

screenshoted this person's TikTok who was like, why are there no like Barbie themed Met Gala

or like, you know, why is there no Met Gala that's fun?

And they listed the idea of like a Barbie

theme met gala as a potential idea that would be fun. And the discourse on my timeline was that

there were some people who were just like, oh my God, like this person doesn't understand fashion

at all, you know, and going on about how like it's important to have designer showcases and

whatnot.

But I have always been somewhat that despite the name of this podcast,

I have always felt that lowbrow culture is extremely important in not just informing highbrow culture,

but also just like as a representation of society and of history.

And so, you know, it led me down this like wormhole where I was thinking about how dolls have actually been such a significant part of fashion history and of our relationship, our personal

relationships with fashion and our personal relationships with history if we look at American

Girl dolls.

So I am definitely excited to talk about this.

Also, this podcast episode is just like, you know, there's just like a lot more stuff that

I wasn't able to fit into the

video. So we're going to be talking about the creepiness of dolls. We're going to be talking

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