The Waves: Why Barbie Lives On
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, it’s all about Barbie. Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth sits down with M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie and co-host of “LA Made: The Barbie Tapes” from LAist and So Cal Public Radio. They discuss the history of the Barbie doll and how she’s managed to endure, how Barbie might actually be feminist, and what the new Greta Gerwig movie gets right about Barbie.
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Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 0:47.0 | You would especially get excited when the catalog would come out and they'd have all the latest Barbie stuff in the catalog. |
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