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Hyper-femininity can be subversive and empowering – just ask Barbie
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. I found Barbie again during 2020’s COVID lockdown. Indoors, confined to Juicy Couture tracksuits, I was missing excuses to express my hyper-femininity through clothing, as I had done pre-pandemic. Collecting Barbie dolls became a way to display my…