Barbie as Portal Fantasy—and What That Means for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Adaptation
C.S. Lewis’s adored classic now shares space with Barbie as part of the subgenre of portal fantasy.
Why It’s Important That Barbie Goes to the Gynecologist and Becomes a Real Girl
Underneath Barbie’s hot pink text of third-wave feminism, there’s a juicy subtext that values female embodied experience.
Barbie, Peter, and a Fragile Messiah
We are called to embrace our physicality, offering to God the sorrows and the sweetness of physicality.
The Barbie Movie and Contemporary Feminism’s Likability Factor
This discovery of getting to know someone and liking her, rather than dismissing her out of hand is the real, overarching lesson of the film.
Ballet, Barbie, and My Body
According to cultural preferences, thin is beautiful; fat is ugly. Thin equals success; fat equals failure. It may be wrong, but most of us believe it.
